PRESTO

This album has 1 really awesome track ("The Pass"), and one really fine track ("War Paint"). After that, there is little here that captures my interest. There is really little progginess here, it is more straight arena-type rock and much of it sounds very dated. 1989 is kind of obvious here. Most of the music on PRESTO is more radio-friendly than earlier Rush efforts and there are no "Hemisphere", "2112", type epics to be found. The period from about SIGNALS is where my Rush interest (and probably many other people) faded. This is not a bad album but it is at least average. Maybe 1 step below GRACE UNDER PRESSURE and a step above SIGNALS. 3 stars