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Title: Losing it
Review: In my opinion this is Rush's least inspired and enjoyable album. The music and the lyrics are weak throughout the whole record. Rush make an attempt to go back to their hard-rock roots, but, just as some other reviewers said, the guitar sound is just plain ugly and cliched. There are no fine melodies here, just a blatant excess of dull heavy riffs. Geddy's vocals are very calm and pale, obviously his voice is completely ruined. No wonder, because he tried to imitate Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse on Rush's '70s-albums ('tricked by circumstances', oh yes!). Well, there are flashes of good melodies in some songs ("Half the world", "Resist"), but the whole affair is just very boring and lame. "Counterparts" was a pretty good album, but "Test for echo" shows that there's no future for Rush. "Moving pictures", along with some other Rush albums, is certainly a classic in every way.
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