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The last few years we've all come to know that Tea Party singer/guitarist Jeff Martin is the only true reincarnation of Jim Morrison and that he took his guitar lessons at the Jimmy Page School of Fine Guitar Arts, that Tea Party drummer Jeff Burrows is the bastard son of John Bonham, and that Tea Party bassist/keyboard player Stuart Chatwood is John Paul Jones' youngest brother. Luckily, they always incorporated some more original influences into their music: world music on 'Edges of Twilight', industrial on 'Transmission', and pop on 'Triptych'. Those influences were the reason that Tea Party's quite traditional heavy rock songs always sounded fresh and different. And through Jeff Martin's fascination with philosophy and interest in non-Western cultures, the songs always got a mystical and sometimes even pretentious edge, on the verge of going over the top. But they managed to stay completely credible, and all these factors led to that typical "big" Tea Party sound. That sound is still very much present on 'The Interzone Mantras', but with one exception: They didn't add any new ingredients to the familiar-sounding mixture. And that is for the first time in Tea Party history. The music sounds well-known, the lyrics are turbid as always, and the songs are hugely arranged. Just like on the predecessors. 'The Interzone Mantras' sounds like the perfect blend from the three aforementioned albums. Of course, it's impossible for The Tea Party to write bad songs, which is convincingly proven by songs like 'Lullaby' and the fantastic 'Cathartik'. 'Requiem', on the other hand, stays only on the good side of pathetic by a mere inch. However, it's a big dissapointement that Tea Party didn't have enough inspiration to put something new into their music. They set the standard at such a level with their previous records that it was inevitable that one day they couldn't reach it themselves. And that's a problem not solved with a great end song like 'Mantra' or the modernised, more direct-sounding, production. 'The Interzone Mantras' marks the birth of Tea Party's stagnation.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/the-tea-party/the-interzone-mantras/919/
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