Title: How NOT to produce a record
Review: This has got to be the worst major label production I've heard in years. The production is not merely a distraction. It comes close to making this CD completely unlistenable.Some bright engineer decided to completely hard line limit and compress this recording. If you pop it in after any other RUSH release, particularly some of the old classic stuff, you will notice right away that it is MUCH LOUDER. Unfortunately, it's the sonic equivalent of READING ALL CAPS. It grows tiresome very quickly. I simply can't overlook this.Also, while the lyrics are nice and perhaps even a touch above the last couple releases, Rush appears to be adrift musically. Yes, I get the no guitar solos and straight ahead thing they're trying to do. I just find myself less interested in it. Rush is no longer that special of a band if this is what they have in mind.
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