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elfsIt's unusual to review a single song, but right now all we have from the new Rush album Snakes and Arrows is the single "Far Cry." And if this is what I can expect from the album, I must say that this might well be the first Rush album I don't run out and buy the week of its release since, oh, 2112.
I've heard "Far Cry" a number of times now on various outlets, and it doesn't sound like anything I haven't heard before. It's got Neal's angsty youth-versus-reality theme, it's got Alex's guitar, it's got Geddy's ever-deepening, ever-weakening voice as age creeps up on all three of them.
There's just no there, there. And I can't really recommend it.
I guess what's really sad is that I keep wanted the musicianship of Rush to be more interesting, to branch out. No evidence of that in "Far Cry." If your idea of great Rush is pieces like "YYZ" or "Gangster of Boats," I'll just have to re-recommend Maximum Indifference and their album The Transmutations of Supposed Angels Or Beings That Were Once Girls, which is basically fifty minutes of the finest instrumental rock in the Rush tradition ever.
I've heard "Far Cry" a number of times now on various outlets, and it doesn't sound like anything I haven't heard before. It's got Neal's angsty youth-versus-reality theme, it's got Alex's guitar, it's got Geddy's ever-deepening, ever-weakening voice as age creeps up on all three of them.
There's just no there, there. And I can't really recommend it.
I guess what's really sad is that I keep wanted the musicianship of Rush to be more interesting, to branch out. No evidence of that in "Far Cry." If your idea of great Rush is pieces like "YYZ" or "Gangster of Boats," I'll just have to re-recommend Maximum Indifference and their album The Transmutations of Supposed Angels Or Beings That Were Once Girls, which is basically fifty minutes of the finest instrumental rock in the Rush tradition ever.
