''Triptych'' (stylized as ''TRIPtych'') is The Tea Party (band), The Tea Party's fifth album, released in 1999. It has the trio blending the major influences found on their previous albums: the earthy rock music, rock of ''Splendor Solis (album), Splendor Solis'', the world music inspired arrangements of ''The Edges of Twilight'', and the industrial music, industrial edge of ''Transmission (The Tea Party album), Transmission''. After the gloom of ''Transmission'', which relied heavily on sampling and electronica, for ''Triptych'' the band wrote with both melody and content, while using electronica subtlety. This is evidenced by the Juno Award nominated single "Heaven Coming Down", the band's first number one single in Canada. The album itself reached #4 on the Canadian album chart, and received a Juno nomination for "Best Rock Album", before achieving double Platinum album, platinum sales in Canada. In June 2000, the EMI labels in Europe released ''Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000'', which included a bonus disc of eight unreleased songs.

Reception

In 2005, ''Triptych'' was ranked number 435 in ''Rock Hard (magazine), Rock Hard'' magazine's book ''The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time''.

Track listing

The unlisted 13th track is the sound of a clock chiming.

Special Tour Edition 2000 Bonus Disc

# "Psychopomp (song), Psychopomp" (live) – 5:10 # "The River (The Tea Party song), The River" (live) – 5:11 # "Save Me (The Tea Party song), Save Me" (live) – 8:23 # "Lifeline" – 4:37 # "A Woman Like You" (Bert Jansch) – 3:46 # "Temptation (The Tea Party song), Temptation" (Rhys Fulber remix) – 5:50 # "Sister Awake" (live) – 5:35 # "Waiting for a Sign" – 4:19

Singles

* "Heaven Coming Down" * "The Messenger (song), The Messenger" * "Touch (Tea Party song), Touch" * "These Living Arms" * "Gone (The Tea Party song), Gone"

Personnel

*Jeff Martin (Canadian musician), Jeff Martin – production and recording *Don Hachey – engineering *Jeff Martin and Nick Blagona – mixing at Metalworks Studios (Mississauga) *Nick Blagona – mastering at Metalworks Mastering *Stuart Chatwood – cover art conception *Antonie Moonen – design *James St Laurent – cover photography *David Giammarco – special thanks

String quartet

* "Gone" ** Ligia Paquin – viola ** François Pilon – violin ** Benoit Loiselle – cello ** Stéphanie Meyer – cello

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1999 albums 2000 albums The Tea Party (band) albums Albums recorded at Le Studio Albums recorded at Metalworks Studios