Test Icicles

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Apparently they used to be called 'Balls'.

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There's a Test Icicles remix of 'Fire' by Lethal Bizzle that came out the other week, too.

Also: Arctic Monkeys fans booed the band offstage last week. Surely a reason to love them.

Physical copies have made 2,625 sales and has risen to number 24.

anybody can hit top 40 with an album these days.

I'm really interested in seeing if this gets into the standalone downloads chart. After all, that new Help charity compilation was the highest selling download album ever and that only got about ~4,000 downloads in its first week.

There's only one reader-written review of 'Circle Square Triangle' on iTunes - there's literally hundreds for "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" - and it's not even in the UK Top 100 songs iTunes chart.

The album is out today. Sometime ILM poster James Jam reviews it for the NME and gave it eight out of ten.

who knows, maybe, the third spin all will become clear.

To people who have actually LISTENED to the album, isn't 'Catch It' one of the most head - spinningly good pieces of music ever made?

No.

http://rapidshare.de/files/12711078/TI_DSCGRPY.zip.html

Probably bad form but it might satisfy those of you too cheap to buy the album.

Test Icicles, *For Screening Purposes Only* Brit hypes. Kelefa Sanneh says he detects a System of a Down influence, and metal expert Shawn Bosler at the Voice is a fan, so I guess they belong on this thread. Album pretty much stinks, near as I can tell. Who they remind me of is certain loud American artsy post-hardcore indie bands from a couple years ago -- the Blood Brothers immediately come to mind, though there were probably others. And since the Blood Brothers were interesting for maybe ten minutes, that's no compilement. "Chaotic" because, you know, we're told so, I guess. And pretty tuneless, though I guess there's tunes within the "chaos," and either way, they don't' rock. Gets slightly better in songs like "Circle, Square, Triangle" and "Snowball" were the vocals go into a sort of unison "hey hey hey" effect, but nothing I'll ever want to play again, I'm sure.
-- xhuxk (xedd...), February 5th, 2006.

yeah, test icicles thing is horrible. i don't really need to hear any more bands like that for a long time..
-- scott seward (skotro...), February 5th, 2006.

I'm not much for hardcore in general b/c it's often so pedantic and tedious, but this stuff is really exhilirating and definitely pop-conscious - the beatz aspect of it is very big too I think, even if the beats themselves are kinda butt-ugly, just the fact of their presence helps to break up the screamy punk monotony and lend an extra layer of levity to the whole thing.

http://www.nme.com/news/test-icicles/22284

So, where do I find that Jacque Le Cont remix?

We are the #1 Test Icicles fans en todo el mundo!!

OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM TEST ICICLES MEMBER RORY ATWELL:

Hmm, well, I not really sure how to explain this, but I gather from the comments that have been left on our myspace page over the last twenty-four hours that you all know that our 'group', band', 'project' or whateveryawannacallit is going to split up.
I've just spent the last hour writing a dissertation about what our band is/was/intended-to-be and have twisted my brain inside out trying to explain the chaos, dilemmas and confusion that has engulfed this band in the past 18 months, I'm not even sure I understand what has happened to us let alone trying to explain it to someone else.
We started this band in August 2004, our only intention was to have bit of fun, to play a few shows, cause some trouble and to split up shortly afterwards, the fact of the matter is that we played our 5millionth gig the other day after a year of multiple tours and we're sick, tired and miserable, and to put it simply, it just isn't fun anymore and hasn't been for a very long time, so we've decided it's time to find something that does make us happy because unfortunately this isn't it.

The original plan was to play a UK tour, European Tour and American Tour all in succession, finishing up with our final 5 shows around the UK in April.
I think we always suspected that at some point during this three month period of constant touring that something would go wrong and unfortunately that time came after the final show of our European tour in St. Malo last week, I'm not say who it was who snapped or in what circumstance but it had been a long time coming and I was almost relieved when it actually happened.

I'm really sorry to anyone who was looking forward to seeing us playing at that NME show or catching us on tour in the US, I hope that anyone who bought a ticket manages to get their money back without too much hassle. I would've loved to have toured the US, but in our current state of disrepair it was never going to happen and if we did try and make it happen it probably would have led to something much worse happening and the three of us disappearing somewhere near Utah never to be seen again, or something like that, so unfortunately the US tour wasn't to be. We will however play our final shows in April, that'll give us some time to sort our heads out and hopefully we can all have a week long 'fuck the Test Icicles' party together ? should be a good way to kill us off I think, bring your shovels and we'll bury Test Icicles once and for all.

Ok, well, I don't really know what else to say other than thanks to anyone who invested their time, money and effort into this band, i.e. the people who bought our records and came to see us play, I know it probably doesn't always seem like it, but we do appreciate it.
With a bit of luck the next projects that we undertake, whether they be comic books, Nobel prize winning scientific discoveries or, who knows, maybe just maybe another band, will be better than Test Icicles and you'll look back and be glad we split up ?

For the time being I'm going to grow a beard, move to the forest and work on my hillbilly-psych-out-jams and we'll see you in April, clean shaven and ready to fuck some shit up for the last time as Test Icicles!!!!

Take care of your badass-mudda-fuggin-selves, Luurve,

Raaaaaary Decihells/Aggwelt/Atwell

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This is like Barry Bonds thinking he's Paula Abdul:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_en_mu/bbn_giants_bonds

http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/test-icicles-sam-mehran-dies/

;_; his work as Matrix Metals and Wingdings was fantastic

90210 album w James Ferarro too.

RIP