Mar 30,  · GET THIS!! The album never sounded this good! 10 years ago I hated this album, it was in my book the worst album by rush. I listened to this remastered vinyl, it rocks!! the songs sound much better with new mastering, and the track limbo is remixed, no unnecessary sound effects anymore.4/5().

And although I enjoy "Limbo" it's probably the weakest instrumental the band has ever produced. "Half the World", "The Color of Right", "Virtuality" and "Carve Away the Stone" are average Rush songs at best and I find myself skipping over these when I listen to this album. Overall, "Test for Echo" was a disappointment for me, as I thought the /5().

Test for Echo is the band’s 16th studio album. It was recorded from January-March at the legendary Bearsville Studios in New York state (now defunct) and at Reaction Studios (also defunct) in Toronto in April The band returned after nearly a two-year hiatus with a power and ferocity that rivals some of their earliest material.

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of Test For Echo on Discogs.4/5(2).

After flirting (albeit mildly) with alternative rock on Counterparts, Rush returns to classic progressive rock on Test for Echo. Cutting back many of the AOR production flourishes that hampered most of their late-'80s and early-'90s releases, the band concentrates on the sounds and styles that made albums like Moving Pictures huge successes in the late '70s and early '80s.6/

Test for Echo, an Album by Rush. Released 9 September on Anthem (catalog no. ANSD; CD). Genres: Progressive Rock.

1) Test for Echo 2) Driven 3) Half the World 4) The Color of Right 5) Time and Motion 6) Totem 7) Dog Years 8) Virtuality 9) Resist 10) Limbo 11) Carve Away the Stone.

Test for Echo. Test for Echo is the sixteenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released on 10 September on Anthem Records. It is the final Rush work before the tragic events in Neil Peart's life that put the band on hiatus until the recording of Vapor Trails in January of It is also the final Rush album co-produced by Peter Collins.