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Title: Crash test
Review: "Test for echo" is the weakest of Rush's albums. No melody, anyway if there had been one somewhere, you couldn't hear it because this album is just NOISE. Remember Lou Reed's "Metal machine music"? T4E will give you the same headache. "Counterparts" had some good rock moments, because Rush had written the songs before entering the studio. In T4E, it seems like no-one knows which way to go. So it starts from nowhere and it goes nowhere. Peart sounds tired, Lee's incantatory vocals are boring and Lifeson's guitar play is terrible. Peter Collins, who did some good work on "Power windows", brings no fresh idea, and in fact you come to wonder if there is a producer. Don't buy this record, it has strictly no interest, whether you are a Rush fan or a prog-rock fan.
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