My favourite Rush album. I feel like them as a band were designed for the 80s synth-driven sound and their transition to it is one of the most successful of all 70s bands. Impressive songwriting with fantastic production and instrumentation
This is basically another helping of the more "synth-heavy" that Rush did on Moving Pictures, and is that a bad thing?
Nah, I don't think so...
Considering all the colossal achievements that Rush acquired up to this point, this album feels less like a new fully realized statement and more of a victory lap for the band, and what a great victory lap it is, especially when you have one of your best songs in your whole discography as the opener
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What da dog doin
I’ve listened to this album a couple of times to try and fully wrap my head around it. It’s good, that’s for certain, but nothing on this album absolutely floors me. I kinda had high expectations with it being a new wave/prog album, but most of these songs sound same-ish past the first 2. Rush does this style and sound very well, but it could use a bit more diversity to me.
| 1 | Subdivisions 5:38 | 96 |
| 2 | The Analog Kid 4:49 | 91 |
| 3 | Chemistry 4:59 | 84 |
| 4 | Digital Man 6:29 | 85 |
| 5 | The Weapon 6:30 | 83 |
| 6 | New World Man 3:48 | 87 |
| 7 | Losing It 4:55 | 87 |
| 8 | Countdown 5:53 | 83 |