HEMISPHERES

Hemispheres is probably the most progressive album in Rush's catalog, but it's also quite possibly their most concise, deftly exectuted effort yet. Rush were extraordinarily tight at this point in their career from their experience as a band. The 18 minute title track is a mammoth, and their last side long epic. Circumstances and The Trees are signs of what Rush would become in the coming years. La Villa Strangiato is a legendary instrumental that has gained the status of Rush classic due to it's neverending display of the individual band members' talents. The extraordinarily odd time signatures, Alex Lifeson's guitar heroics, Geddy Lee's bass expertise, and Neil Peart's legendary drumming make this quite possibly the strongest Rush effort so far.