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Monday, September 16, 2024
Test Dept - The Unacceptable Face of Freedom - Bishop's Bridge Railway Depot - Melody Maker April 5 1986
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Phil Knight
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Test Dept were one of those bands you didn't have to actually listen to, because you knew exactly what they were going to sound like from their name and image. I suspect that they were anathema to anybody who had actually done an industrial job; who had heard clanging all day; who experienced cranes and chains as prosaic everyday realities.
They were probably one of the few bands that could have benefited from a sense of irony, from a bit of post-modernism. In fact, there is probably some mileage in comparing them to Ghost Box/Scarfolk. Test Dept as a last gasp of the post-war consensus, verging on the hauntological but refusing to succumb to it, to admitting that that world was over.
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Test Dept were one of those bands you didn't have to actually listen to, because you knew exactly what they were going to sound like from their name and image. I suspect that they were anathema to anybody who had actually done an industrial job; who had heard clanging all day; who experienced cranes and chains as prosaic everyday realities.
They were probably one of the few bands that could have benefited from a sense of irony, from a bit of post-modernism. In fact, there is probably some mileage in comparing them to Ghost Box/Scarfolk. Test Dept as a last gasp of the post-war consensus, verging on the hauntological but refusing to succumb to it, to admitting that that world was over.
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