THE TEA PARTY – Blood Moon Rising [Digipak version with bonus] (2021)

With a career spanning over three decades and nine major-label releases, 2021 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Canada’s remarkable 3-piece THE TEA PARTY and their new album titled “Blood Moon Rising” is their first full-length release in seven years.
Featuring material written over the course of the last 5-years in Canada and Australia, “Blood Moon Rising” includes the songs from the 2019’s self-released “Black River” EP with another stack of fascinating new compositions, but also comes with three additional bonus tracks for this limited Digipak CDs.
If you are new to THE TEA PARTY, we strongly recommend to listen to “Blood Moon Rising”, you’ll be surprised by this band’s quality classic rock, refined songwriting and polished production.

Rock from Canada has a long tradition. Bands like Rush, Triumph, Harem Scarem and many others have their home base in the land with the maple leaf. An a band from there that has been somewhat forgotten in recent years is The Tea Party.

The Tea Party is Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood and Jeff Burrows. All three are founding members and also reflect the current line-up of the band. It was in 1991 that the trio made their debut and was something of a springboard for the band.
Other albums followed, some of them very successful. A long break between 2006 and 2011 belongs to the history of the band as well as the reunion in 2012. It took two years until the band released another album with ‘The Ocean at the End’. After that it became very quiet again about the trio from Toronto.

But now the three guys come back with a new, full album, which contains new material plus their EP ‘Black River’. All four songs plus the Led Zeppelin cover ‘Out on the Tiles’ have been released already and are part of the new album too. What might sound a bit like money-making makes more sense when you know that the EP was self-released and will now be available to the many fans via Blood Moon Rising.
The album, which will be released through Inside Out Music, contains more than just the very enjoyable songs from the EP, though.

‘Sunshower’ is one of these new tracks, which worth to have this CD alone. Calmer yet determined, the three Canadians rock through this song with a great sense of melody and a feel-good vibe.
‘Our Love’ is a rather atmospheric piece with a dark core. What follows is ‘Hole in my Heart’, a well-crafted rock song with buzzing guitars and a deep groove.
Two other covers on the album are also interesting. ‘Isolation’, by Joy Division and the Morrissey cover ‘Everyday is Like Sunday’ are well done and fit very well with the rest of the tracks on the album.

‘Blood Moon Rising’ is The Tea Party’s return, at least as far as a full-length release is concerned. The three guys from Toronto deliver a great record that combines the familiar classic rock, their own style, and the interesting all on this one.
Highly Recommended

 

01 – Black River
02 – Way Way Down
03 – Sunshower
04 – So Careless
05 – Our Love
06 – Hole in My Heart
07 – Shelter
08 – Summertime
09 – Out on the Tiles (Led Zeppelin cover)
10 – The Beautiful
11 – Blood Moon Rising (Wattsy’s Song)
Bonus Tracks:
12 – Isolation (Joy Division Cover)
13 – Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey cover)
14 – Way Way Down (Live Version)

Jeff Martin – vocals, guitar, mandolin, percussion
Stuart Chatwood – bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Jeff Burrows – drums, percussion, vocals

 

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