Transmission (The Tea Party album)

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Transmission
Studio album by the Tea Party
Released	August 19, 1997 (1997-08-19)
Studio	Alkemical Studios (Montreal), NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Le Studio (Morin Heights)
Genre	Industrial rock, hard rock
Length	49:34
Label	EMI Music Canada Atlantic
Producer	Jeff Martin
The Tea Party chronology
Alhambra (1996) Transmission (1997) Triptych (1999)
Singles from Transmission
"Temptation" Released: July 1997 "Babylon" Released: September 1997 "Release" Released: April 1998 "Psychopomp" Released: 1998 "Gyroscope" Released: 1998

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Allmusic	link

Transmission is the fourth album recorded by the Canadian band the Tea Party, released in 1997. AllMusic described the album as "Sounding a lot like a Nine Inch Nails of the north... Full of hard rock thrust with industrial edge".^[1]

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 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 number 3 on the Canadian album chart, double platinum status in Canada and receiving a 1998 Juno nomination for "Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year". An edited version of the song "Temptation", as well as an instrumental version of "Babylon", can be found on the PlayStation game Road Rash 3D, from the same year.