I’ve been listening to Rush’s “Clockwork Angels” for about a week and I’ve yet to find a track, riff, or lyric that I’ve latched on to. I think Rush might be one of those bands whose songs you can really only like as a teenager, when songs about suburban subdivisions really speak to you. Thinking that Rush songs are deep because they occasionally throw in a Shakespeare quote tends to wear off by college. Though my freshman roommate was still very much into Rush, to the extent that I referred to him as “Today’s Tom Sawyer” behind his back.
Anyway, none of this is to say that I don’t like Rush, just that experiencing new Rush material in your 30s isn’t like experiencing it when you’re 18. And sadly, this album just seemed kind of “meh” to me. I did not, as they say, catch the mist, the myth, the mystery, or the draft.