TEST FOR ECHO

I am a huge Rush fan but no matter how hard I try, I cannot warm up to this album. This is where Rush has lost themselves in the desperate attempt to sound contemporary. For a contemporary album, this is probably not too bad, comrared to Oasis and Nirvana etc., but as a Rush album, this is pretty awful. This is not the same group that gave us "Permanent Waves", "Moving Pictures" and "Signals". The songwriting is just not there, and lyrically it is pretty dried up too. This is not for the fans of the classic Rush, which to me has ended with "Power Windows". One and a half, really.