Tests

by The Microphones

Tests cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 20 June 1998
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:02:08
  • Community rating: 3.2/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An early collection by The Microphones, the project of Phil Elverum, assembling lo-fi tests and experiments recorded in Olympia, Washington. Fuzzy guitars, tape hiss and fragmentary songs anticipate the intimate, weather beaten sound he would develop on later albums.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, about-music, noisy, melodic, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Tests (1:36)
  2. Feedback Love (2:46)
  3. Tape Deck Ghost (3:22)
  4. Like A Piranha (4:06)
  5. Soundwaves (3:01)
  6. Drums That No One Played/El Ni帽o (2:22)
  7. Anacortes Has A Secret Love (3:11)
  8. Oh Anna (3:20)
  9. Spy Cameras (3:37)
  10. Witch Doctor (2:35)
  11. Monsters (3:49)
  12. The Last Night Of The Year (4:54)
  13. PreAmp (2:29)
  14. Quiet Groove (2:59)
  15. Little Songs (4:18)
  16. Microphone Pt. 1 (2:02)
  17. Microphone Pt. 2 (2:23)
  18. Eyes For Volume (2:43)
  19. Wires And Cords (6:35)

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