#1160 Rush - Hemispheres

This is the kind of stuff that makes people hate prog, with Geddy's vocals at their most tuneless, the lyrics at their most preposterous, the sidelong opener desperately meandering (though that bass part at 16:00 or so is almost worth the price of admission). Look, I love prog, and I like Rush, but this has little of the immediate punch of Moving Pictures, little of the visceral thrills of 2112, and doesn't really work as spacy atmospherics either. Without purpose on one of those damn fronts the chops don't mean a thing 2.5/5