On this album Rush continued their prog-rockmission with their not-very-heavy rocksongs with lot of tempochanges, weird passages and sudden stops and starts leading the songs forth and back again in a roller-coaster ride. Synthesizers were used more than before, probably since everybody else were beginning to use them in those years. Unfortunately the songs don't have much power and heaviness. I find the songs too light and almost poppy. The arrangements are good but it could have been so much better with some more substance. A typical Rush-album.

1)A farewell to kings (7,0) Acoustic intro and then a midtempo song with some breaks for guitarsoloing with pumping bass. Okey song but nothing special.

2)Xanadu (7,0) 11 minutes long. Typical Rush-progressive rock with a lot of variation but it's lacking some power. It gets very tame.

3)Closer to the heart (7,0) Too short song that has a good melody and is more of a normal rocker.

4)Cinderella man (7,0) Nice melodic refrain in this song that sounds just like the other ones on the album.

5)Madrigal (7,0) A short song.

6)Cygnus X-1 (6,0) 10 minutes with a Darth Vader-like spoken intro. The song lacks melody and is very chaotic. Rush have made way better music than this album.

Score: 6,83

Geddy Lee(born Gary Lee Weinrib)-vocals, bass, guitars and synthesizers (b.1953)

Alex Lifeson(Alaksandar Zivojinovic-guitars and synthesizers (b.1953)

Neil Peart-drums (b.1952)

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