Test For Echo Rush

• 1 Test For Echo 05:56
• 2 Driven 04:27
• 3 Half The World 03:41
• 4 The Color Of Right 04:48
• 5 Time And Motion 05:04
• 6 Totem 05:00
• 7 Dog Years 04:56
• 8 Virtuality 05:43
• 9 Resist 04:22
• 10 Limbo 05:28
• 11 Carve Away The Stone 04:05
• Total Runtime 53:30

Info for Test For Echo

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 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.

'...by clearly out-funking the likes of Yes and ELP, Rush prove, at long last, that art rock needn't be lethal.' (Entertainment Weekly)

'It's double-standard time. Rock snobs have been beating up on Rush for years, mostly on account of the assiduously designed pomp and metaphysical polemics in the band's art rock and the scraped-blackboard shiver in bassist Geddy Lee's vocals. Meanwhile, Porno boss and alterna-bon vivant Perry Farrell lays on the expressionist waffle with a trowel and sings like a scalded tabby — and he's a New Rock god.

Actually, for all of his hallucinatory airs and stylistic caprice, Farrell is a plain-spoken romantic realist and a surprisingly disciplined songwriter. On Good God's Urge, he grounds his dream-pop larks with melodic clarity and heft, and leaves out, for the most part, the Jane's Addiction-redux squawk that marred Porno's first album. 'Tahitian Moon' is kinetic, straightforward fun, and there is nothing postmodern (thank God) about Farrell's generous declaration of amour in '100 Ways.'

As for Rush, anyone who thinks the three Canadians are irrelevant arena-rock hags isn't paying attention to Primus' Metallica-meets-2112 moves or the serious '70s-art-rock undercurrent of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and the buffed guitar and synthesizer contours of Test for Echo are welcome relief from the bland din of modern-rock celebrities like Dishwalla. (Rolling Stone)

Geddy Lee, bass, keyboards, vocals
Alex Lifeson, acoustic and electric guitars, mandola
Neil Peart, drums, percussion, hammered dulcimer

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