“Far Cry” by Rush

"Far Cry" was the first single from Snakes & Arrows, the 2007 Rush album on Atlantic, and it reached rock radio on March 12 of that year, with a digital release following four days later. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson wrote the music, Neil Peart wrote the words, and Nick Raskulinecz produced. It hits like a hard rock band with a progressive rock brain, all muscle and no wasted motion.

Lifeson remembered it as one of those rare songs that felt familiar before it was finished: they just played it, and the relief had the band high-fiving in the room. It climbed to 22 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, finished 2007 at number nine among the songs Canadian rock stations played most, and later landed on the Retrospective 3 compilation in 2009.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.