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It's always interesting to watch Britain's "Next Big Thing" chew up and spit out one band after another, victims of an overly hyperbolic press and, all too often, too much too soon syndrome striking them down.
Test Icicles may qualify for the briefest tenure yet, with one album out, a ton of press, and then... The band breaks up and everyone's already forgotten them anyway, in order to bestow their garlands on the Arctic Monkeys.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2005 CD release of "For Screening Purposes Only" on Discogs.
Alas, as they say.
For Screening Purposes Only pulls its primary inspirations from Britain's post-punk canon, wrapping up bands like the Fall and Magazine together with a panoply of more modern influences â enough that the album's most severe drawback may be that it feels like a smorgasbord of stylistic dabblings.
Primarily, it comes off as a very young album, unwilling to commit t