Released September 10, 1996 Length 53:31 Release date 10 September 1996 Producer Peter Collins | Recorded January—March 1996 Artist Rush Label Atlantic Records | |
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Studio Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York and Reaction Studios, Toronto Test for Echo
(1996) Different Stages
(1998) Genres Rock music, Progressive rock, Hard rock Similar Rush albums, Progressive rock albums |
Rush test for echo full album lyrics
Test for Echo is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1996. It marks the final Rush work prior to the tragic events in Neil Peart's life that put the band on hiatus for several years. He recorded a majority of his drum tracks for the album using traditional grip, after receiving drum lessons from jazz instructor Freddie Gruber.
Contents
- Rush test for echo full album lyrics
- Critical reception
- Track listing
- Rush
- Technical personnel
- Songs
- References
The cover displays an inukshuk, native to the band's home country of Canada. Created by the Inuit, an inuksuk is a stone figure in the shape of a human used to mark a food cache, hunting ground or a place where someone lost their life.
The title track reached No. 1 on the mainstream rock chart. "Driven" became a bass showcase for Geddy Lee during live performances, while "Resist" was rearranged as an acoustic song on the Vapor Trails and R30 tours. Since then, the band has not performed any tracks from the album in concert. It was remastered and reissued twice: in 2004 as a continuation of "The Rush Remasters" set and in 2013 as a part of the box set The Studio Albums 1989–2007.
Critical reception
AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave Test for Echo 3 out of 5 stars, saying that Rush has "rarely played better in the past ten years than they have on Test for Echo."
Track listing
All tracks written by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, except "Test for Echo" written by Lee, Lifeson, Peart, and Pye Dubois.
Rush
Technical personnel
Songs
1Test for Echo5:56
2Driven4:27
3Half the World3:43