TRIPtych by The Tea Party

TRIPtych, The Tea Party's fifth album, arrived on EMI in 1999, and it gathers up everything the Canadian trio had tried so far: the dirt-under-the-nails rock of Splendor Solis, the world-music colors of The Edges of Twilight and the industrial grind of Transmission. After the gloom and heavy sampling of that last record, Jeff Martin, Jeff Burrows and Stuart Chatwood went back to writing for melody and meaning, keeping the electronics tucked into the corners instead of out front.

It paid off. "Heaven Coming Down" became the band's first number-one single in Canada and earned a Juno nomination, while the album climbed to number 4 on the Canadian chart, picked up its own Juno nod for Best Rock Album and went double platinum at home. In June 2000, EMI's European labels reissued it as a Special Tour Edition with a bonus disc of eight unreleased songs.

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