Martin
Popoff, Editor in Chief of BraveWords.com has reviewed Rush`s new album "Clockwork Angels". Read excerpts of the sparkling 10/10 review below:
"Hard
to believe, but this is the first full concept album for the Willy
Wonkas of prog metal, Clockwork Angels being a complicated, oblique,
angled tale involving less steampunk than rumour had it and much more
about the march of time, all wrapped up in the meaninglessness for
the non-believer, except for some sort of inner temple-building, or a
garden as it were, Candide-style. If Vapor Trails was in the spirit
(but not the sound) of red, yellow and blue Crimson (frantic,
textured, high on the shelf), Clockwork Angels is in the glorious yet
dour (an apt result of ascribing to Neil’s belief system) spirit of
Wetton-era Crimson mixed with Van Der Graaf Generator, with all the
Victorian weight lead-lined in a box of the two institutions. And
therein lies one of a few steampunk nods, as there’s no one more
“watchmaker” than Peter Hammill.
A singular Rush triumph results, and yes, before we even get to the music, there really is so much to ponder here, as there’s lyrics, light narration, visuals, and then an exo-story by Kevin J. Anderson. And like the best concept albums, the lyrics alone are mostly abstraction, with further abstraction caused by demarcation into their necessary chapters, welcome, so that these hugely ambitious and exclusively dark songs can stand on their own as Rush songs, soon to be mouthed by crowds in the wrongness for this of hockey barns."
A singular Rush triumph results, and yes, before we even get to the music, there really is so much to ponder here, as there’s lyrics, light narration, visuals, and then an exo-story by Kevin J. Anderson. And like the best concept albums, the lyrics alone are mostly abstraction, with further abstraction caused by demarcation into their necessary chapters, welcome, so that these hugely ambitious and exclusively dark songs can stand on their own as Rush songs, soon to be mouthed by crowds in the wrongness for this of hockey barns."
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