SNAKES & ARROWS

I gave 2 stars to "Grace under pressure" and after that, I did the same with every single RUSH album until "Vapor trails", so it made no sense to write a bunch of reviews about the same band saying exactly the same and rating every album with the same amount of stars, so I just rated the albums without writing any review until now and why did I decide to write a review about "Snakes and arrows"? What was different? Well, for starts I'll give one more star to this album because I find a lot of reminiscenses to RUSH's great albums from the seventies and start of eighties, this album got originality and clearly an improvement in the quality of the compositions.

The style of "Snakes and arrows" is probably not as Heavy and powerful as "Hemispheres" or "Permanent waves" but at least it has a lot of interesting and fresh songs such as "Spindrift" "Faithless" or "Armor and sword", we can hear a very revitilized band with very original material that doesn't sound as mototonal and boring as the previous 8 or 9 previous albums of the band. RUSH had a tremendous change of style in this record, it is probably their only album after "Signals" that I would ever buy.

SONG RATING: Far cry, 4 Armor and sword, 4 Workin' them angels, 3 The larger bowl, 3 Spindrift, 4 The main monkey business, 3 The way the wind blows, 4 Hope, 4 Faithless, 4 Bravest face, 4 Good news first, 4 Malignant narcissism, 3 We hold on, 4

AVERAGE: 3.69

PERCENTAGE: 73.85

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

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