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 Communications^[5] on their sub-label Essential Records^[6] and was the band's 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.

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Chicago Tribune	[8]
Robert Christgau	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[3]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[9]
PopMatters	6/10[10]

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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."^[9] CMJ later qualified it as "a superb record which oddly got lost in the shuffle".^[11]

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

Adapted from the album liner notes.^[12]

Buzzcocks

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

Technical

• Ralph P. Ruppert – production
• Ingo Vauk, Philip Bagenal – mixing engineers
• Graeme Durham – mastering
• Malcolm Garrett – album design
• Pete Towndrow – photography