In Brief : * * Victor, “Victor,” Atlantic.

If you’ve always wanted to hear Rush without Geddy Lee’s grating voice, here’s your chance. Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson’s side project adds a hint of grunge to the clinical chops while the standard quasi-intellectual posturing of the Canadian band is supplemented by the title track’s use of W.H. Auden’s mini-epic of a murderous misfit. But, as with Rush, it’s intellect without emotion.