Rush

While critics routinely dismissed Rush as pretentious operatic heavy-metal bozos, this
indefatigable Canadian trio was actually busy becoming the Police of power rock. On their
recent studio LPs, leading up to 1984's appropriately titled Grace under Pressure, they
tightened up their sidelong suites and rhythmic abstractions into balled-up song fists,
art-pop blasts of angular, slashing guitar, spatial keyboards and hyperpercussion,... More >