Title: Songs? Hello?
Review: Where are the songs? This album is even worse than Test For Echo. I'm not one of those Rush fans that loves the 80s synth period over the rockier late 70s stuff or vice versa. I love Hold Your Fire just as much as Roll The Bones, Moving Pictures or Signals. It seems that after Roll The Bones, Rush forgot how to write a good song and became obsessed with becoming a 'heavier' band at the expense of the songwriting. I'm sure I'm not alone here in saying that the quality of songwriting will always be what albums are judged on. When people on here talk about the production being bad then you know that something is amiss elsewhere - Grace Without Pressure sounds like it was recorded in a [...] but the songs still shine though. I really wanted to like this album, especially after all that Neil has gone though, but this is not the defiant return to form I hoped for.
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