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          With the For Screening Purposes Only album getting a recent U.S. release we round up the band's trio of EPs and singles.

        1. With the For Screening Purposes Only album getting a recent U.S. release we round up the band's trio of EPs and singles.
        2. Brian: The U.K.'s Test Icicles bring a spastic dancefloor vibe to the table on their new album, For Screening Purposes Only, released on Halloween.
        3. UK trio boast acid-throated, Blood Brothers-like vocals and a delightfully hook-filled, slash-and-burn post-hardcore sound.
        4. The new album arrives July 28, on the three-year anniversary of Mehran's death, via Weird World.
        5. Test Icicles were the next biggest thing in dance-punk indie rock terms.

          6. UK trio boast acid-throated, Blood Brothers-like vocals and a delightfully hook-filled, slash-and-burn post-hardcore sound....

          For Screening Purposes Only

          2005 studio album by Test Icicles

          For Screening Purposes Only is the debut studio album by UKdance-punk trio Test Icicles, released in 2005.

          It was critically praised for being unique and compelling in an increasingly homogenous indie music scene. Following the group's split in February 2006, the album remains Test Icicles' only LP.

          Title

          The name of the album is derived from the 1999 film Thicker Than Water.

          In the movie the phrase "For screening purposes only" appears on screen whenever any violence occurs in the film. Band member Rory Atwell has also stated that the first song on the album, "Your Biggest Mistake", is about the film.[9]

          Composition

          The sounds on Screening Purposes fit somewhere between "cleaned-up" death-disco and "manicured" noise rock and dons "dance-punk verve and hardcore mayhem".[2][8] It also digs into "hook-filled, slash-and burn" post-hardcore.[3]

          However, the t