Vapor Trails (Remixed)
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2013's celebration of Rush includes the highly anticipated release of a remixed version of the band 2002's album Vapor Trails. In 2009, two tracks from Vapor Trails ("One Little Victory" and "Earthshine") were remixed for the Retrospective III collection, setting fans into a frenzy in anticipation of a possible remixed version of the entire album being released one day. Four years later, that day approached."Vapor Trails was an album made under difficult and emotional circumstances - sort of like Rush learning how to be Rush again - and as a result, mistakes were made that we have longed to correct. David Bottrill's remixes have finally brought some justice and clarity to this deserving body of our work," says Geddy Lee.
"Every song has been given a new life, from the fire of "One Little Victory," "Secret Touch," and "Ceiling Unlimited" to the melodic musicality of "Sweet Miracle" and "How It Is"… these songs have been redeemed. Thank you David!"
The remixed version of Vapor Trails is also be included in the 7-disc boxed set The Studio Albums 1989-2007, which features every studio album Rush recorded for Atlantic Records.
Vapor Trails (Remixed) Review
Full disclosure: I am largely opposed to post-release tinkering of any work, be it movie, book or music. I think that if an artist is going to tinker with a previous work, they had better have extremely good reasons, and the tinkering had better be a clear improvement that leaves the integrity of the original work intact. The best cases are the ones that have corrected clear mistakes or compensated for unwelcome tinkering done to the original work in the first place - "Blade Runner" is the poster-boy example of this. But most tinkerings fail badly by either bloating the work with unnecessary filler or introducing elements that simply don't belong. Think the "Star Wars" so-called Special Editions, or just about any Director's Cut that adds deleted footage back in - it was usually deleted for a good reason in the first place. Tight editing appears to be a lost art with some directors. In music, Def Leppard's recent re-recordings are clearly motivated by business, and they don't do the original classic recordings any justice.So here's Rush, with a 2002 album that is readily acknowledged by any discriminating listener as having received a below-average mastering. The original album is muddy and incoherent, especially for those of us used to the crisp, precise sound of this band in previous recordings. So the first condition is easily satisfied: a poor mastering job is a great reason to revisit a work. So all that remains is: does the new edition do justice to the original work while simultaneously providing an improvement that even a purist would welcome?
Gratefully, the answer is YES. Finally, "Vapor Trails" truly sounds like a Rush album, with crystal-clear production values that live up to the sonic standard Rush has set on so many previous recordings. Just listen to the samples from this album compared to the samples from the original album, and the difference is immediately noticeable and most welcome. I'm perfectly happy discarding my copy of the original album and replacing it with this copy, and that's saying a lot coming from someone like me who is a near-purist. Do not hesitate to pick this up just because it's a revised work - it is well worth it and is the rare revised work that really works. Frankly this is the album that should have been released in the first place.
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