TEST ICICLES would have us believe that their name comes from the notion that primitive man used to test icicles to gauge their sturdiness prior to using them as a stabbing weapon.
Yeah right.
When not displaying their knowledge of anthropological trivia this three-piece do find time to make quite a racket. And a big, dumb but welcome racket at that. Skirting wildly and anarchically around punk and metal they are the soundtrack to a John Waters update of a 50’s B-movie with a plot about the carnival freak show coming to town, corrupting all the virgins, humiliating all the jocks and packing off the hypocrites and squares to Hell via the Ghost Train.
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Have you seen it?
On their debut single both ‘Boa vs. Python’ and ‘Dancing on Pegs’ display a chaotic noise that by rights shouldn’t work but oddly does, aided and abetted by a wilful disregard for musical rules but still managing to conjure up something that makes sense, albeit in a warped and not too slightly deranged way.
Weirdly wonderful and quite brilliant.
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