He feared that making an album too soon would have resulted in 'a botched job.' The prospect was met with some resistance from Howe, who held the group back from recording several times as the group had few musical ideas to develop. While touring in 2013, the band started to gather material for their first studio album since Fly from Here (2011). With Davison on board, Yes resumed touring in April 2012. David was replaced by American singer Jon Davison, who was recommended to Squire by their mutual friend, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. In February 2012, the Yes line-up of bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, and lead vocalist Benoît David suffered a setback when David left the group after contracting a respiratory illness, causing them to cancel the last shows of their 2011–2012 world tour. 20 on the UK Albums Chart and became their highest charting album on the chart since their 1994 album Talk. Heaven & Earth received mixed and negative reviews. Yes enlisted producer Roy Thomas Baker (who had previously worked with the band during recording sessions in 1979) and future Yes bassist Billy Sherwood to complete the mixing.

Davison took an active approach with the songwriting, travelling to the homes of the other band members to collaborate on songs. The group started preparing new material for an album during the 2013 leg of their Album Series Tour. It was released on 16 July 2014 on Frontiers Records and is the first album with lead vocalist Jon Davison and the final album to feature founding bassist Chris Squire before his death in 2015. Heaven & Earth is the twenty-first studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes. Like It Is: Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome

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