Tests (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Tests

| type = compilation

| artist = The Microphones

| cover = TheMicrophonesTests.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1998, 2011

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = The Business

| genre = Indie folk, experimental rock, experimental

| length = 61:56 (CD)

| label = Knw-Yr-Own (KYO30)
Elsinor (els 029)
P.W. ELVERUM & SUN, ltd.

| producer =

| prev_title = Wires and Cords

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Don't Wake Me Up

| next_year = 1999

}}

Tests is an album by The Microphones. It was first released as a cassette tape on Knw-Yr-Own in 1998. A CD release by Elsinor followed in the same year, but the track listing was a mixture of The Microphones's three previous albums: Microphone, Wires and Cords, and the Tests cassette. Most of the material was recorded at The Business while Elverum worked there.{{Cite web|title=Anacortes Magazine (Issue 2, August 2012)|url=https://issuu.com/anacortes-magazine/docs/anacortes-magazine-issue-2-august-2012/20|access-date=August 16, 2020|website=Issuu|date=August 15, 2012 |language=en}}

Tests was re-issued on cassette in an edition of 20 by P.W. ELVERUM & SUN, ltd. The re-issue was to celebrate Record Store Day 2011 and was only available at The Business in Anacortes, WA. A few additional copies were sold online via P.W. ELVERUM & SUN, ltd.