CARESS OF STEEL

With this album RUSH started to experiment and improvise with some progressive elements that they didn't have in their first two recordings; "The necromancer" and of course "The fountain of Lamneth" are quite long for the average songs the band were making before and contain very interesting and obscure lyrics by PEART.

The first three tracks of the album are in the same vein of the "Rush" and "Fly by night" albums, so there was nothing really new in their style coming from those; "Bastille day" has become a favorite in RUSH concerts and compilation albums. Probably this is not an absolute masterpiece and it is probably not 100% Progressive Rock but it is an introduction to the three following albums: the absolute masterpieces "2112", "A farewell to kings" and "Hemispheres".

SONG RATING: Bastille Day, 5 I think I'm going bald, 3 Lakeside Park, 4 The necromancer, 5 The fountain of Lamneth, 5

AVERAGE: 4.4

PERCENTAGE: 88

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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