Screaming Tea Party are an indie punk/psychedelic rock band from London, England. The band original lineup consists of Koichi Yamanoha (bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

/vocals), Teresa "Teta" Colamonaco (Drums/vocals) and Koichi "Niiyan" Niizato (guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

) .

The band was featured in the episode "Blinded by the Light" of the TV series FM

FM (TV series)

FM was a British sitcom which aired on ITV2, starring Chris O'Dowd , Kevin Bishop and Nina Sosanya . The series followed the lives of two DJs and their producer on their FM radio progamme, "Skin 86.5 FM"...

, playing the songs "Today is the Day" and "Death Egg".

Critical reception

The band was described by Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...

 “they switch continually between scribbling punkabilly and utterly stripped- down lo-fi, with magical results.” Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound

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said "Complex in their simplicity and a nexus of electricity reminiscent of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 having sex with a bulldozer."
Dazed & Confused

Dazed & Confused (magazine)

Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine, that was set up in 1992 and published monthly. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and Rankin...

reported "Screaming Tea Party are a band you're gonna think you discovered when you were 13. They pack in snippets of every record you've ever owned, and sound like a sloppy first kiss that precedes a punch in the teeth, without sounding dated or cliched."

The single "Holy Disaster" was described by NME

NME

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as "Sounds like 'I found a reason' by the Velvet Underground, yet - and get this - even cooler." "'Golden Blue' and 'Holy Disaster' are both ethereal rock waltzes which sound like Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

 on Helium."

Singles

• "Between Air And Air" (2007)
• "Holy Disaster" (2007)
• "I'd Rather Be Stuck On The Stair Rail" (2008)

Compilations

• Stolen Recordings Compilation 2 (2007)
• Sexbeat Compilation (2008)
• World Penguin’s Carnival 2010 (2010)

External links

• Screaming Tea Party at Stolen Recordings
  Stolen Recordings
  Stolen Recordings is an independent record label founded by two musicians and one artist based in Tottenham, London. Stolen's first release was in May 2005 and in 2009 they founded a publishing company in association with Beggars Music called Stolen Publishing.-Current artists:* Pete And The...
  
  
• Screaming Tea Party at Last.fm
  Last.fm
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