Tastefully awesome!

The opening track "Far Cry" is deceptive: Here it seems as if a better produced, ingenious holdover from the very hard and complex predecessor to hear "Vapor Trails". Intricate rhythms are joined into a powerful chorus, as it only hinbekommen Rush.
After this hammer, the album reveals, however, as the most relaxed Rush album since "Roll The Bones". The acoustic guitar is used more often than ever before and Geddy Lee sings ever empathetic. The enthusiasm is palpable. The "Feedback" disc has left its mark.

After 2-3 runs Also, every song a catchy tune and absolute ear candy developed this time. Even after more than 30 years the trio makes no little before, when it comes to the perfect interaction. Keyboards are one more time to hear only very rarely, this unique bass lines and as usual sovereign, albeit this time tastefully restrained Neil Peart. Gloomy gloom and doom ("Spindrift") is just as necessary as breathtaking instrumental passages ("The Main Monkey Business") and "Presto" -like tune-flyer ("Bravest Face"). And the album highlight "The Way the Wind Blows" starts as a Hendrix-like blues rocker that opens into a typical Rush reef and finally in a divine chorus that produces a sudden campfire atmosphere. Gooseflesh alert!

The fact remains: There is probably no other band which delivers as constant first-class music. Rush today are still as important as in 1974 and have delivered with "Snakes and Arrows" a work that is behind any of their countless classics have to hide!