Album of the Day

Victor: Victor. Victor was the name Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson gave to his solo project back in the mid 1990s. While some of it sounds unmistakably like Lifeson, he experiments a lot with different sounds and textures. Aside from the very Rush-like "Promise," none of the other tunes would really fit in the trio's repertoire. The result is probably the most interesting Rush-related release in the past decade. It is, however, very dark lyrically. For instance, the album name is taken from a W.H. Auden poem about a man who kills his wife. Get the picture?