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test for echo
Test for Echo is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on September 10, 1996 on Anthem Records. 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, as well as the final Rush album to be co-produced by Peter Collins. -wikipedia
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Classic Rock Review
At first listen, the songs may be a bit thick, but once you get through this opaque outer atmosphere you can hear the real underlying genius of this record.
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Cygnus-X1
The perfect blend of lyrics and music with some powerfully deep tracks.
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Odyssey
2017 - a mostly disjointed and lackluster effort and is Rush's only major blemish in their impressive music career
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Metal Storm
If I had to burn all my Rush records and keep only one, Test for Echo would be my pick. It features everything I like about this band. The songwriting is direct without sacrificing the progressive aspect. The songs are all memorable
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All Music
Test for Echo is all instrumental gymnastics and convoluted song structures, all of which demonstrate each member's skills. And the key to the album is the individual performances, since each song isn't particularly memorable as a song, only as a way to showcase the solos.
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Rolling Stone
1996 - 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
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Smart Bass Guitar
2014 - It’s just…an album. A collection of songs which, to the devoted Rush fan, is a bit of a let down.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
Sonically, this is a masterful comeback. The songwriting is more or less back to the level I'd like from Rush, but what's most important to me is how this sucker sounds. The production is utterly fantastic, and an absolute treat for fans of Lifeson's guitar.
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Mark's Record Reviews
I think this is one of the best albums they've ever made
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Saint Louis University
This is a band who after 22 years is still cranking out solid music and continuing to challenge themselves.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
If any Rush album sounds like it was sleepwalked through, it's 1996’s mostly forgettable Test for Echo. Even its highlights – the title cut, "Half the World," "Virtuality" – cannibalized spare parts and old ideas, like a printer cartridge running on empty, or an echo growing fainter, fainter, fainter ...
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Don Ignacio
Rush always have impressive instrumental virtuosos, but now they have finally come up with an album that you might want to hear! Yaaaaaaaay.
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Wilson & Alroy's Reviews
it's never invigorating because it's so predictable: an assembly line of formulaic four- and five-minute tunes, with each band member doing the same things he'd done on the one million previous albums
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