CLOCKWORK ANGELS

Rush

Heavy Prog

3.93 | 1231 ratings

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Uruk_hai

Review #92

"Clockwork Angels" was the last studio album of RUSH, it was released in 2012 and it got both good and bad qualifications from the fans and the media. Back in those days, I was obsessed with the seventies records of Prog, so when I heard this album on Grooveshark it was not at all an album that I liked, but here I am almost 10 years later opening my brain and heart to give it a second chance and I have to say I've been unfair with it.

Of course, RUSH never got as good as it was in the seventies, I've been saying that in almost every RUSH review I've written, but "Clockwork angels" (as much as "Snakes and arrows" did) could bring back a little of the original hard rock style that RUSH had in their first albums, I'm not talking about the "A farewell to kings" or "Hemispheres" albums, this record sounds (at least to me) more similar to "Fly by night" and "Caress of steel", when they were a mainly Hard Rock band (with a lot of school of DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN and WISHBONE ASH) than a Progressive Rock band but of course: this is not a band of youngsters anymore, the music played in this album was clearly made by mature old men and that absolutely marks a difference.

RUSH is without any doubt one of the most influential Rock bands ever, along with its career they recorded lots of albums, some amazing ones, some not that much and I think this is right in the middle. It was a great way to close the catalog of such an important band.

SONG RATING: Caravan, 4 BU2B, 3 Clockwork angels, 4 The anarchist, 3 Carnies, 3 Halo effect, 3 Seven cities of gold, 4 The wreckers, 4 Headlong flight, 4 BU2B2, 3 Wish them well, 3 The garden, 3

AVERAGE: 3.42

PERCENTAGE: 68.33

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

Uruk_hai | 3/5 | 2021-9-23

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