Lightspeed Champion
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When hyped British dance-punk outfit Test Icicles imploded, everyone was surprised except the band members. "We were never that keen on the music," vo...

Comparing bands is pretty much unavoidable when you're trying to classify or keep straight hundreds or even thousands of artists that fall beneath th...

Dev Hynes, former member of London's crash-and-burn punk outfit the Test Icicles, seems to have been turned around by Bright Eyes. On Falling Off the ...

At 21, Devonte Hynes has already anchored a defunct dance-punk outfit that enjoyed success despite being called Test Icicles. (It should be easy saili...

Devonte Hynes has covered some serious ground since he, Rory Atwell and Sam Mehran released For Screening Purposes Only as Test Icicles little over t...

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Lightspeed Champion is the latest guise of Dev Hynes, formerly of Test Icicles. New name, new musical identity: Falling off the Lavender Bridge is an...

Lightspeed Champion, aka Dev Hynes, was formerly in the thrashy, prank-pop trio Test Icicles. This opens with a pedal steel and takes no time to get ...

Dev Hynes just turned 22, but he sings and plays with the aplomb of a pop star. Part of his appeal, I suspect, will be the uncertainty with which he n...

Lightspeed Champion is the new project of former Test Icicles member Devonte Hynes. Radically unlike the noisy dance-punk of his former band, this de...