VAPOR TRAILS
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VAPOR TRAILS
Vapor Trails is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush. It was released on May 14, 2002 on Anthem Records, and it is their first studio release since Test for Echo (1996), the longest gap between two Rush albums. For the first time since Caress of Steel (1975), the group did not incorporate a keyboard into their music. -wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2002 - Rush’s most focused effort in many years, thanks to a renewed emphasis on songwriting. The lyrics of drummer Neil Peart, who lost a daughter in a car accident and then his wife to cancer, have become less abstract and much more personal.
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Pop Matters
2013 - The resulting Vapor Trails was a dense, heavy album. There was a lot happening in the songs, lots of band interplay, lots of layering and overdubbing.
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All Music
All in all, Vapor Trails does an amiable job of signaling the welcome return of Rush.
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Cygnus-X1
Power-filled songs refined by years of experience. Touching lyrics. They're Back!
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Odyssey
"Vapor Trails" is an okay release as a whole but is a huge achievement considering the horrible tragedy experienced by Neil Peart.
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Drews Reviews
If you are intimately familiar with Vapor Trails – Original listen to it again in its entirety and then listen to Vapor Trails – Remixed. A number of elements to the songs emerge and it’s then that the listener understands just how under-produced or over-produced (depending on how you look at it) the original was
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Sea of Tranquility
I like enough of Vapor Trails to recommend it, with reservations
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Hokey Blog!
2016 - Vapor Trails is not an easy album to listen to, but it definitely has its rewards for those patient enough to look past its unfortunate sound quality and somewhat homogenous musical direction
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Metal Storm
Progressive rock fanatics will enjoy every song on this release, from slower tunes to more forceful anthems. Vapor Trails is a standout album, a release of energy kept inside for too long, both lyrically and musically.
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The Star
2013 - What emerges is an album that any Rush fan would be proud to own. Forget about the earlier effort and put your money down on this one.
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Metal Express Radio
2015 - Vapor Trails is brim full of future classics, and the album just gets better and better for every listening. Vapor Trails, what a rush!
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Wilson & Alroy's Reviews
since the simplistic riffs are depressingly ordinary ("Peaceable Kingdom" is an exception), it's not particularly good random hard rock
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Don Ignacio
It's nothing but noise, noise, noise. It was so noisy that it was noisy even when I turned the volume down.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
But besides a few persistently memorable offerings like "Ghost Rider" and the riff-tastic "Earthshine," the rest of the album hasn't aged well. Mostly, it reveals a band that was learning to walk again after a lengthy hiatus.
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Saint Louis University
There are so many highlights here and very few weak spots. Any album that starts with the opening 7 seconds of drumwork on "One Little Victory" and moves quickly to the crazy bass jam in the middle of "Ceiling Ulimited" is headed in the right direction!
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Mark's Record Reviews
It's just that Rush at this late stage in their long nerdy career have honestly found a sound that I can enjoy!
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
the material is overall quite mediocre, and 68 minutes of it is far too difficult for somebody who respects the band but is by no means a fan to tolerate
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Melodic Net
a good album but these 3 guys are legends and they are always better than "just" good
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Exclaim!
Vapor Trails captures the essential rock spirit that we've only seen brief glimpses of in the past half-dozen records
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Ultimate Guitar
Overall, I was dissapointed by this as a Rush album, but somewhat impressed by it as a album in general.
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Dutch Progressive Rock Page
With Vapor Trails the band have shown that they have been able to move with the times.
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Enjoy the Music
an album which is more melodically streamlined and butt kicking than a band of graying geezers has to a right to release
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Shaking Through
2002 - Ultimately, Vapor Trails rises above its own musical shackles, propelled by pleasantly memorable melodies and an aura of lyrical poignancy.
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Culture Fly
2013 - a solid record with some of Lifeson’s best finger-lickin’ riffs, and Rush purists will enjoy re-discovering a largely forgotten album in the Canadian prog-pantheon
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Stereogum
2014 - Vapor Trails was such a little victory, a difficult, wrenching, modestly triumphant statement that Rush was back.
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Austin Chronilce
Musically, the Canadian trio has never sounded tighter, heavier, at times crushing, almost always compelling. They're playing like monsters inc.
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