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180g Vinyl Re-Issue of Rushs First Album Of The 21st Century!

This visionary collection, 2002s Vapor Trails, produced by Rush with engineer Paul Northfield (Marilyn Manson, Hole), saw the legendary trio redefining their intensely individualistic music, blending their famously complex dynamics with driving radio-ready melodic hooks and a passionate, personal lyric approach.

A career-chronicling Rolling Stone feature praised Rush for its continuing artistic vitality, noting that Its true that Rush doesnt mean today what it did in 76 or even 96. It may mean more. Rushs enduring pop culture relevance is perhaps best evidenced by a pair of high profile appearances a rare national television performance and interview on Comedy Centrals The Colbert Report in 2008 (the bands first TV appearance since 1975), and a pivotal role in the story line of the 2009 hit comedy, I Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segal, where the band also made a memorable cameo in the film.

Beginning with their self-titled debut album in 1974, their extraordinary body of work which includes such formidable works as 1976s 2112, 1981s Moving Pictures, 1996s Test for Echo, 2002s Vapor Trails and the studio album Snakes & Arrows, made a triumphant debut on the Billboard 200 upon its initial release in 2007, entering the chart in the #3 spot. The albums success marked Rushs highest chart debut since 1993, as well as the groups eleventh top ten album in the U.S. Rush has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and garnered untold legions of devoted and admiring fans. According to the RIAA, Rushs sales statistics place Rush third behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band.