Test for Echo is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian rock
band Rush, released in 1996. The album marks the final Rush work prior to the
events in Neil Peart's life that put the band on hiatus for several years.
Peart recorded a majority of his drum tracks for the album using traditional
grip, after receiving drum lessons from jazz instructor Freddie Gruber.
The cover denotes an inukshuk, native to the band's home
country of Canada, which is a stone figure in the shape of a human used to mark
a food cache or hunting ground.
The title track reached #1 on the mainstream rock chart.
"Driven" became a bass showcase for bassist Geddy Lee during live
performances, while "Resist" was rearranged as an acoustic song on
the Vapor Trails and R30 tours.
Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave Test
for Echo a rating of 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 songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee,
and Neil Peart except where noted.
1."Test for Echo" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Pye
Dubois) – 5:56
2."Driven" – 4:27
3."Half the World" – 3:41
4."The Color of Right" – 4:48
5."Time and Motion" – 5:04
6."Totem" – 5:00
7."Dog Years" – 4:56
8."Virtuality" – 5:43
9."Resist" – 4:22
10."Limbo" – 5:28
11."Carve Away the Stone" – 4:05
Personnel:
Geddy Lee - bass, keyboards, vocals
Alex Lifeson - acoustic and electric guitars, mandola
Neil Peart - drums, percussion, hammered dulcimer
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