Trade Test Transmissions is the fourth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 2 June 1993 by record label Castle and was their first release in fourteen years, following up 1979's A Different Kind of Tension. The music was quite different from their earlier material with nods to the power pop scene popular at the time.

Trade Test Transmissions
Studio album by Buzzcocks
Released	2 June 1993 (1993-06-02)
Studio	Eastcote, Kensal Road, London
Genre	Pop punk[1][2]
Length	47:58
Label	Castle (UK), Caroline (USA)
Producer	Ralph P. Ruppert
Buzzcocks chronology
Operator's Manual: Buzzcocks Best (1991) Trade Test Transmissions (1993) All Set (1996)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Robert Christgau	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[2]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[4]

Trade Test Transmissions has been generally well received by critics.

Jason Crock of Pitchfork was generally favourable, though writing "the album remains a strictly diehards-only affair."[4] CMJ later qualified it as "a superb record which oddly got lost in the shuffle".[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pete Shelley, except as noted.

Personnel

Buzzcocks

• Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals
• Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals
• Tony Barber – bass
• Philip Barker – drums

Technical

• Ralph Ruppert - production
• Ingo Vauk, Philip Bagenal - engineers
• Malcolm Garrett - album design
• Pete Towndrow - photography

References

External links

• Trade Test Transmissions at Discogs (list of releases)

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