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Billboard 200 - #47, 1978 "You don’t have to be a Rush fanatic to appreciate the quality rock on display here ..." - ClassicRockReview.com "... another good, solid Rush album ... prove themselves masters of every power trio convention. In fact, these guys have the chops and drive to break out of the largely artificial bounds of the format and they constantly threaten to do so ... I affirm this band's ability to rock out ..." - Rolling Stone Merging an increasingly polished sound with masterful progressive rock songwriting, Hemispheres is considered one of Rush's greatest, if possibly overlooked, releases. Recorded in the UK, with only four tracks it captures the band at its most ambitious, notably on the nearly 20 minute, side-long Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres and the trio's first instrumental, La Villa Strangiato. The Trees has endured for well over three decades as one of the band's most popular, yet misunderstood songs. Neil Peart has said there was never any deep or cryptic meaning to his lyrics. "It was just a flash. I was working on an entirely different thing when I saw a cartoon picture of these trees carrying on like fools. I thought, 'What if trees acted like people?' So I saw it as a cartoon really and wrote it that way. I think that's the image it conjures up to a listener or a reader. A very simple statement." - Neil Peart