VICTOR

The first (and I hope not the last) Alex Lifeson solo project with the collaboration of Les Claypole, Edwin and Lisa Dalbello amongst other excellent musicians that gives to this album a refreshing and very experimental sound...

If you are a Rush fan maybe this one will not be of your taste. Even when the Rush inffluence is there in almost every song the final product it's closer to other genres like progmetal, electronic (excellent work on programmings!) and even some Zappa inffluences... looks chaotic and in some way it's true but Mr. Lifeson knows when to put every musica piece in his place, making a solid album, very experimental and taking the risk to do something totally different...

Some highlights: the awsome Don't Care, Start Today, Sending A Warning, Shut Up Shuttin' Up (maybe the most hilarious song of the album because the two-women conversation as a backrounf of the music) and the dark and mysterious Victor...

3.5* for me. Not a memorable album but the efforts or Mr. Lifeson and friends deserves more than one listening and I'm sure you will be surprised by most of the songs on the album...