Title: Rush
Review: Chris Barlow's review was excellent and conveys most of my feelings about it. I had heard the Neil Peart suffered some personal loses last year with wife and daughter. I think the band's on auto-pilot right now which shows from the no-letup heavy approach from track to track. This album reminds me of a lot of musically solid albums I've heard in the past that did not have the required elements to set the songs apart from each other, and which resulted in a body of work that did not make a lasting impression. Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm not willing to give even Rush, a 5-10 uninterrupted listening in order for it to grow on me. Songs like "Roll the Bones" had alot of breaks and tempo changes, and changes to vocals. The listener needs this to keep engauged. Rush might have been looser and more experimental 10-12 years ago. Here there's no keyboards, Aimee Mann, or quirkiness to make it an enjoyable listen.
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