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 Another Direction for the Best Band in Years November 21, 2003
Peter Udstuen
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Tea Party are my favorite band and their diversity is the most amazing thing about them. This cd surely shows their adventure into industrial type music. This is by far their darkest album to date.
1.)Temptation-5 stars-Great great song. Really cool intro riff as well. Good lyrics about a destructive life.
2.)Army Ants-4 stars-Not my favorite on the album, but a good guitar song none the less.
3.)Psychopomp-5 stars-Quite possibly the most emotional song on the record. Great sound and excellent lyrics.
4.)Gyroscope-5 stars-Cool slide guitar riff during the intro/chorus. Cool tribal feel during the bridge as well.
5.)Alarum-5 stars-Another incredibly emotional song. Very dark and depressing. Awesome hard rock song.
6.)Release-4 stars-Very very sad. Great song though, very mellow. A song that has been attached to the white ribbon campaign to which the Tea Party are very active in.
7.)Transmission-5 stars-the title song, very cool riffs and once again, very dark lyrics, cool tribal beat.
8.)Babylon-5 stars-Very techno-ish song. Has a really cool video that goes along with it, the hidden track at the end of it, also known as Embryo, is a kick ass instrumental too.
9.)Pulse-5 stars-Really cool hard rock song, good driving beat from Jeff Burrowns. Once again very depressing song.
10-)Emerald-5 stars-very emotional song, and quite possibly my favorite song on the album. Cool acoustic to electric change.
11.)Aftermath-4 stars-Great way to end the album. A mellow quite, brooding song that sort of wraps everything from the album up.
Great album for anyone looking for Tea Party's darkest music. It is also their heaviest album to date.
Absolutely Incredible! November 19, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
After catching the end of one of their songs on MuchMusic, I listened to all the Tea Party clips that amazon.com had to offer. I just couldn't get enough and bought Splendor Solis, The Edges of Twilight, and Transmission all at once (I drove to Canada earlier this year to pick up Triptych).At first, Edges was my favorite of the three, since it has a *very* solid track list. Every single one of the songs is awesome. Because I was so busy listening to Edges, however, I neglected Transmission somewhat. Now I find that the more I listen to this CD the more I like it. So I listen more, and I like it more and more and more. This CD, even though it was great to start with, has grown even beyond that. It's both interesting to listen to and entirely hypnotic at times, and the electronic aspect was added perfectly. Of the entire album, I would have to say that my favorites are: Temptation, Psychopomp, Transmission, and Aftermath. Buy this! You will not be disappointed.
THE most-played album in my collection for the past 9 years December 30, 2005
Treehugger (Syracuse, NY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is brilliant. Tea Party is able to combine aggression with thoughtfulness, melody with metal's noise. I bought this cd after hearing "Temptation" once on my college radio station and it didn't disappoint.
The whole album is good for what ails ya--cathartic in ways few artists can manage. Who needs therapy? Like Korn's "Issues," this album takes you through your deeper, darker, unexpressed emotions whether you want to or not. "Temptation" has an honest, earthy sexuality you can't express with any pallid love song. "Gyroscope" and "Army Ants" are the perfect anthems to rev you up for a challenge. "Transmission" and "Babylon," taken together especially, bring you first through the feeling you get when someone isn't listening and then that you don't care whether they listen or not. The song arrangement was done really well; taken as a composition, the album leaves you feeling satiated because it brings you up and down, heats you and cools you.
Jeff Martins vocals at first reminded me of Jim Morrison with their dark, resonant quality. However, the lyrics are so much more satisfying. You can tell from the multi-layered sound (that comes from the many instruments this band experiments with) and the complicated lyrics that one band, at least, actually spends some time on their craft. You will find yourself resenting the fast-food substance on the radio after spending some time with Tea Party.
The Tea Party gets down and Dirty October 29, 2003
Rachel Andrews (Bellingham, WA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Transmission is definetley different than previous albums, but all of TP's albums are unique and need to be analyzed individually. This album they explore the harder metal/industrial sound, which (surprize!) they proved they can master that as well. While previous albums seem to explore the external world, Transmission focuses more inside the self - exploring concepts like guilt, murder, suicide, and obsession. The lyrics are again, quite powerful and well thought out. This is the only band I know of that use words like "animality," "spleen," and "Piranesian" gracefully. If you are Tea Party fan or a rock fan that is looking for something with a little more substance than screaming, this album is a no brainer hit.
 From organic to electronic December 22, 1999
Wade Tomlin (Toronto, Ontario Canada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
On their first two records, The Tea Party allowed themselves to get lost in other bands styles, becomming the victim of comparisons. The Doors comparison, largely due to Jeff Martin's similiar sounding vocals, particularly saddled them and didn't allow the general public to get a real appreciation for the bands amazing musicianship. On Transmission however, the trio took out all their frustrations in the studio creating a dark soundtrack for a futuristic world. Temptation and Babylon in particular cut loose with a hostile attack of electronica laced hard rock which turns into a sonic escape, it feels like you loose yourself in an evil cyber space as Martin belts out lyrics like "we exist in a world where the fear of illusion is real." Forget Limp Biskit, its anger like that which should keep parents up a night.
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