Rush: Snakes & Arrows

Status of copy at Case Memorial Library
Bob Cesca wrote in the Huffington Post: "Within its first 60 seconds, the new Rush album, Snakes & Arrows, throws down against the Christian right. … Snakes & Arrows is, musically and lyrically, one of the best recordings of Rush's 35 year history and probably the most important … appropriately and ominously describing this era in history as if 'we're back in the Dark Ages.' Rush's drummer and lyricist, Neil Peart, has always been an intelligent and outspoken proponent of secularism. In the song Faithless, Peart describes himself as not having 'faith in faith.' … [H]e and the band are far from quiet about the way the winds are blowing. … America has, more often than not, tempered its unprecedented strength with reason. … Not so much recently, though. Cooler heads, as described by Rush and Peart, have been almost drowned by the 'dry rasp of the devil winds.' In the allegorical song Spindrift, Peart describes himself as frustrated, separated and disillusioned … by the devil winds from the east: the television pundits and radical religious 'fools' who rip across the waves of modern reality."