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Few are the bands with Rush's power to command extremes of loyal admiration or, conversely, unadulterated loathing. As to the reasons, clues abound throughout the course of Chronicles, a characteristically portentous title for a triple-LP retrospective of the Toronto power-trio's career since the early 1970s. Geddy Lee's reedy, piercing vocals, Alex Lifeson's trapped-hamster guitar panics, and Neil Peart's scuttling, polyrhythmic percussion are all, perhaps, a mite specialised in their appeal. But even more potently divisive is the strange, cerebral fanaticism they bring to bear on their music and lyrics. From their workaday blues-metal origins they moved into epically art-rocking symphonies of dedicated complexity, furnishing it all with supremely lofty, densely allegorical musings. It takes some nerve to skirt the cliff-edge of absurdity so closely. Anthem, Closer To The Heart, The Trees and Spirit Of Radio are among the landmarks that will render the panoramic sweep of Chronicles a sight for the faithful's sore eyes-and a short-cut to sore ears for anybody else.
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