PRESTO

After the exploration and use of synthesizers taken to the limits of their imagination and something more, Rush strips themselves of all that tucking and, finishing the 80's, they turn with "Presto" to a less pyrotechnical and more hard rock style, with short and direct themes, and at times rudimentary.

The loss of prominence of the synthesizers is evident from the opening "Show Don't Tell" or the accelerated "Superconductor" and "Anagram (for Mongo)", where Alex Lifeson's guitars shine with more than interesting riffs, although the strength and power of the raspy riffs of their beginnings were long gone and are missed.

As true as the ability of the Canadians to create pieces that overcome the passing of the years and settle in the timelessness of legends, as with the delicate "The Pass" and its calm and precious harmony, or the crystalline acoustic beginning of "Presto".

Beyond its intense moments, "Presto" is wrapped by a mantle of underhanded melancholy that remains strong throughout its development, and that is crowned with "Available Light", the song where Neil Peart shows his unsurpassable mastery in percussion, in general more rhythmic in the rest of the album.

All in all, a correct work with primitive airs, but with less explosiveness.

3 stars