Love it or hate it, I doubt anyone will seriously accuse it of sounding too much like the original!
Put me into the "love it" category. I would much rather hear fresh approaches to covers than the kind of covers Rush gave us on Flashback. Don't get me wrong, that collection was certainly OK, fine, nice and all that. A great chance for them to celebrate the musicians and songs that inspired them in their younger years. But at the end of the day, they didn't really add all that much for me because most of it is so very similar to the original.
THIS, however.... now THIS is something else entirely!
If you do give this one a chance, I'd be interested in your "take" on it.
Is this...
an innovative and visionary work of genius?
Or perhaps you think it...
disingenuously disrespectful?
Or even still...
ambitious yet hollow?