Triptych (The Tea Party album)
Triptych | ||||
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Studio album by The Tea Party | ||||
Released | June 8, 1999 | |||
Recorded | October 10, 1998 – March 3, 1999, at Alkemical Studios, Montreal, Studio Morin Heights, Morin-Heights, Quebec, and Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, ON | |||
Genre | Hard rock, Progressive rock, Alternative rock | |||
Length | 51:25 | |||
Label | EMI Music Canada | |||
Producer | Jeff Martin | |||
The Tea Party chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
Rock Hard (de) | 9/10[1] |
Triptych (1999) is The Tea Party's fifth album. It has the trio blending the major influences found on their previous albums: the earthy rock of Splendor Solis, the world music inspired arrangements of The Edges of Twilight, and the industrial edge of Transmission.
Triptych showed a band with a new confidence in songwriting. After the gloom of Transmission, which relied heavily on sampling and electronica, for Triptych the band wrote with both melody and content, while using electronica subtlety.[2] This is evidenced by the Juno Award nominated single "Heaven Coming Down", the band's first number one single in Canada. The album itself reached #4 on the Canadian album chart, and received a Juno nomination for "Best Rock Album", before achieving double platinum sales in Canada.
In June 2000, the EMI labels in Europe released Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000, which included a bonus disc of eight unreleased songs.
Reception
In 2005, Triptych was ranked number 435 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.[3]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Touch" | 3:57 |
2. | "Underground" | 3:41 |
3. | "Great Big Lie" | 3:50 |
4. | "Heaven Coming Down" | 4:01 |
5. | "The Halcyon Days" | 5:57 |
6. | "The Messenger" (Daniel Lanois cover) | 3:32 |
7. | "Samsara" | 3:56 |
8. | "A Slight Attack" | 3:15 |
9. | "Taking Me Away" | 5:02 |
10. | "These Living Arms" | 5:03 |
11. | "Chimera" | 4:29 |
12. | "Gone" | 3:35 |
13. | Untitled (hidden track) | 1:02 |
The unlisted 13th track is the sound of a clock chiming.
Special Tour Edition 2000 Bonus Disc
- "Psychopomp" (live) - 5:10
- "The River" (live) - 5:11
- "Save Me" (live) - 8:23
- "Lifeline" - 4:37
- "A Woman Like You" (Bert Jansch) - 3:46
- "Temptation" (Rhys Fulber remix) - 5:50
- "Sister Awake" (live) - 5:35
- "Waiting for a Sign" - 4:19
Singles
Personnel
- Jeff Martin – production and recording
- Don Hachey – engineering
- Jeff Martin and Nick Blagona – mixing at Metalworks Studios, (Mississauga)
- Nick Blagona – mastering at Metalworks Mastering
- Stuart Chatwood – cover art conception
- Antonie Moonen – design
- James St Laurent – cover photography
- David Giammarco – special thanks