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Test for Echo

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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

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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

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

  • Geddy Lee – vocals, bass guitar, synthesizers
  • Alex Lifeson – electric and acoustic guitars, mandola
  • Neil Peart – drums, cymbals, hammer dulcimer
  • Technical personnel

  • Peter Collins – producer
  • Clif Norrell – recording
  • Andy Wallace – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Hugh Syme – art direction, design and digital illustration
  • Songs

    1Test for Echo5:56
    2Driven4:27
    3Half the World3:43

    References

    Test for Echo Wikipedia