The Tea Party – Transmission (New Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 20th anniversary 2017 reissue.

Transmission is the fourth album recorded by the Canadian band The Tea Party, released in 1997. The band expanded on the mix of rock, blues and world music found in their previous albums by adding electronic instruments and recording techniques to their repertoire.

While still using several exotic instruments and maintaining the "eastern" influence in the recording, many songs also include samples, sequencers and loops alongside the traditional acoustic instruments. The result is a harder, industrial sound[citation needed]. The album makes lyrical references to the afterlife ("Psychopomp"), the dystopian works of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin ("Army Ants") and Giovanni Piranesi's 'Imaginary Prisons' ("Alarum").

Transmission continued to build on the momentum generated by The Edges of Twilight, reaching #3 on the Canadian album chart, double platinum status in Canada and receiving a 1998 Juno nomination for "Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year".

TRACKLIST:

A1 Temptation
A2 Army Ants
A3 Psychopomp
A4 Gyroscope
A5 Alarum
A6 Release
B1 Transmission
B2 Babylon
B3 Pulse
B4 Emerald
B5 Aftermath