Test For Echo

Test for Echo is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1996

The title track reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, making Test for Echo the band’s third consecutive album to feature a chart topper. The song “Driven” would become a common bass showcase for bassist Geddy Lee during future tours. Also, “Resist” would eventually be rearranged into an unplugged “folk” song on the Vapor Trails and R30 tours. “Limbo”, an instrumental, marked the third Rush album in a row to feature one. By this point, Rush’s song lengths were decreasing slightly, but still remained at 4-5 minutes on average. The album also marks the final Rush work prior to the events in Neil Peart’s life that halted the band for half a decade.


Track listing
All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart except where noted.

“Test for Echo” (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Pye Dubois) – 5:55
“Driven” – 4:27
“Half the World” – 3:42
“The Color of Right” – 4:48
“Time and Motion” – 5:01
“Totem” – 4:58
“Dog Years” – 4:55
“Virtuality” – 5:43
“Resist” – 4:23
“Limbo” (Lifeson, Lee) – 5:28
“Carve Away the Stone” – 4:05

Personnel
Geddy Lee - bass, synthesizers, vocals
Alex Lifeson - acoustic and electric guitars, mandola
Neil Peart - drums, cymbals and hammered dulcimer