Yoga for the ears

Rush do not let up, and like a hare (and veterans are the three well actually) they beat hooks on which you can constantly re-ignite it with enthusiasm, astonishment, rejection or whatever. Rush is not disembarked in the 80s, but there is no example of an ever more consistent häutende snake that processed their developed during the career elements constantly new and changing.

Snakes & Arrows extricates itself thus again the inertia of some fans: the old Progjüngern that Rush with the seventies and combine 2112, the Compact Sound disciples that connect Rush iW with Moving Pictures, the keyboard and melody disciples who rush with albums like GuP. or holdyourfire connect, the fans of the harder corner, where the Vapor Trails - Sound for the first time gave an interest in Rush.

S & A is once again refreshingly different. And yet it is through and through a Rush album, it is bursting with ideas, beautiful melodies, dark-cryptic lyrics, musicianship, casual solos, colored instrumentals and the distinctive, meanwhile - because clearly matured - extremely pleasant voice of Geddy Lee ,

It's like an Indian (Brett -) "Game of Life" to the self-knowledge borrowed title suggests yoga for the ears. Asanas, forcing the fan to bow, the solidified image of his favorite band to expand a new mosaic. After repeated pleasure the melodies, the tricky places, the text lines for this stay so penetrating in the ear canals.

And the lock or inclined listeners can look forward to the live versions of at least half of the new song material as could be found in the start of the US tour. Because - yes, what is the culmination of a Rushalbums - not DVD or 5.1 mix - it is the moment when the lights go out, Neil drives his steam engine and Alex and Geddy with the grin of two high school classmates to successful exports of Canada in a mix of virtuoso rock music, joy of playing, ingenuity, honesty and ability to transform their present audience.

"Turn up the music and smile ..."