Title: I just don't get it!
Review: I'm a huge Rush fan (since 1982) and I alway have been. I own every album and have seen them in concert four times (it'll be five times after August 17th) but I hate to say it, I just don't like this album. Nothing about the songs stick with me. It seems like our beloved boys from Canada are trying too hard to be "modern". The melody's are confusing, Neils lyrics are cryptic, and Geddy's voice is lost in a cavalcade of overwrought riffs.Another problem is the albums length. 70+ minutes! Why oh why do bands today feel the need to fill every bit of CD space with sound even when most of it is filler ....? 1980's Permanent Waves barely cracks 30 minutes and only has six songs but every song is wonderful and melodic.I know Rush will never again achieve the heights they reached in the early 80s but they can surely do better than this. Especially when we have to wait 5 years between albums.
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