(2021) The Tea Party - Blood Moon Rising (Bonus Track Edition)  


Review:
With a career spanning over three decades and nine major-label releases, 2021 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Canada’s remarkable rock 3-piece The Tea Party and the full-length release titled “Blood Moon Rising” is the long overdue European followup to 2014’s acclaimed “The Ocean At The End” album. Featuring material written over the course of the last 5-years in Canada and Australia, “Blood Moon Rising” not only compiles 2019’s self-released “Black River” EP with another stack of fascinating new compositions. “Putting together “Blood Moon Rising” has been an epic ordeal split into 2 parts with recordings and mixing taking place all over the world. After many years away from the European market we’re thrilled to return with such a varied collection of rock songs. In the time since our “The Ocean at the End” release the band has remained busy touring Canada, the USA and Australia, which included some monumental orchestra performances. Once again Jeff Martin has helmed the production with the original Australian sessions for “Black River” taking place in 2015. We finished the recordings in Vancouver at the legendary Armoury Studios whose past clients have included AC/DC, REM, INXS and others. The band explores its rock, acoustic and blues influences over the album’s eleven tracks. Of particular note is the title track dedicated to our longtime front of house sound engineer John Watt, who sadly passed away during the recording of the record.





Track Listing:
1.Black River
2.Way Way Down
3.Sunshower
4.So Careless
5.Our Love
6.Hole In My Heart
7.Shelter
8.Summertime
9.Out On The Tiles (Led Zeppelin Cover)
10.The Beautiful
11.Blood Moon Rising (Wattsy’s Song)
12.Isolation (Joy Division cover)
13.Everday is Like Sunday (Morrisey cover)
14.Way Way Down (bonus live track)


Media Report:
Genre: indie-rock, prog-rock
Country: Canada
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits