RUSH IS CHANGING

So it sounds like when a matter is not entirely finished, the new direction but still not 100% clear. The over-progressive years to be completed with the last live album, the much more pleasing, more transparent picture, however, was not quite in focus. Was This is the last album recorded the Rush with her longtime companion Terry Brown as co-producers, but it is also the first in which the decision, the guitar equally, instead of the current dominant to put next to all the other instruments, implemented , So something is confusing here: -Do be the endless Sequencerphasen in "The Weapon"? -Is the "New World Man" not almost pop?
- Where the brilliant bass is gone?
-Do The guitar in the mix almost disappear? So many things do not seem to fit. This is now more than twenty years ago and Rush had finally worked out with her to this day the most successful album "Moving Pictures" real freedom. This they have effectively, though not consistently used. The real break in the sound of Rush came only with the next album, which by his own admission not very successful first experiment to try it with a "real" producers. Here is much below the surface of traditional (in Rushschen sense): The 7/8 time in Subdividions, Lifeson's flageolet solos, the middle-heavy mix. One of probably the best lyrics Neil Peart's (Subdivisions) can be found here. That would have none of guitar rock generations 10 years later better hingekriegt, though it would fit so well into a post-grunge sound. "The Analog Kid" is almost prose and the many bends in "The Weapon" show that the write innovative talent Peart's lyrics is not used at the sole. Some experiments come something funny to: the synthetic reggae of "Digital Man". The naive impressed report from Space Shuttle launch in "Countdown".
They might still have to wait a year until the new ideas had solidified. So there are here with songwriting, which is part of the best of what Rush have produced little indecisive experiments and a flat, distanced production with a very cold, in parts almost empty sound. Of course, this does not fit necessarily a bad thing to what is said here and the polyphony of music and text has Rush always excellent, but the finishing touches are missing.
PS: The digital remastering is perfect as with almost all of the original Masters Series of Rush, so that the CD really almost as good we sound the LP