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| Vapor Trails | ||
|---|---|---|
| CD by Rush | ||
| Released | May 14, 2002 | |
| Recorded | 2001 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 67 min 15 s | |
| Record label | Atlantic Records | |
| Producers | Paul Northfield and Rush | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| RollingStone review | 3/5 | link |
| ARTISTdirect review | 3/5 | link |
| Rush Chronology | ||
| Different StagesRush albums 1998 albums Live albums Different Stages is a live album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). The album was recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon, during the 1994 Counterparts tour and the 1997 Test for Echo tour. ( 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting) | Vapor Trails ( 2002) | Rush in RioRush in Rio is a live album by Canadian band Rush, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). The album is available as a three CD set and a two DVD set. The album was recorded in Rio de Janeiro. The album received the 2004 Juno Award for "Music DVD of the Yea ( 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U) |
Vapor Trails is the eighteenth studio album by the CanadianCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe rock bandRock band (or rock group is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specialising in a particular form of electronically amplified music. Deriving its name from the musical style which was its immediate progenitor, rock and roll, the type of music Rush released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).
The release of Vapor Trails marked the first studio album for the band in six years (since Test for Echo in 1996). Long known for purposeful stylistic changes that defined individual albums as well as delineated the larger-scale phases of their recording career, Vapor Trails brought a shift in many fundamental aspects of the Rush sound as it had evolved over the years. On Vapor Trails there are no keyboards, no guitar 'solos', no processed-guitar tones. It has no epic fantasy/sci-fi adventures, no optimistic forward-thinking lyrics that extol the virtues of self-reliance and common sense. Perhaps most striking, Rush seems even to have abandonded their long-held policy of tempering the recording process such that what was put on an album could be reasonably reproduced live. Instead, Vapor Trails uses a more purified guitar tone, lots of vocal and guitar overdubs, and an overall darker tone to the music and lyrics. All in all, Vapor Trails offers a dramatics rethinking of Rush's fundamental musical mores, suggesting that they have embarked on yet another new direction.