Mere minutes into Starlifter: Fearless Pt. II, the hefty 18-minutes-plus opener to Crown Lands’ new album, you find yourself playing, which Rush song is this? Split into nine parts, naturally, and starting with Overture (I’m not making this up), you think to yourself: Begin Transmission, that part’s from Hemispheres, right? Didn’t I originally hear that section from Requiem in La Villa Strangiato?
The next time you have some friends over for, I don’t know, a Dungeons & Dragons evening, it’s a fun party game you can all play. I’m not being facetious, but there are moments on this sometimes excellent record where you’re completely taken out of the moment because you think you just heard Red Barchetta, which, dependent on your mood, can be laudable or risible.
