Transmission Suite (album)

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Transmission Suite
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Studio album by
Released11 October 2019 [1]
StudioThe Transmission Suite at Old Granada Studios (Manchester)
Genre Electronica [2]
Length59:50
Label Self-released label
808 State chronology
Initial Granada Report
(2019)
Transmission Suite
(2019)

Transmission Suite is a 2019 studio album by the British electronic music group, 808 State. It is their seventh studio album, released 17 years after their last album Outpost Transmission . [3] [4] [5] [6] It is also their final to feature Andy Barker, who died on 6 November 2021, leaving Graham Massey as the sole remaining member of the group. [7] [8] [9] Before the album was released, the group produced two EP albums called Initial Granada Report and Subsequent Granada Report both released about five months before the album was released. [10] [11] [12]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [13]

Track Listing

  1. "Tokyo Tokyo" – 4:52
  2. "Skylon" – 4:41
  3. "Cannonball Waltz" – 5:15
  4. "The Ludwig Question" – 4:31
  5. "Huronic" – 3:46
  6. "Landau" – 4:08
  7. "Westland" – 3:20
  8. "Trinity" – 3:18
  9. "Ujala" – 4:51
  10. "Carbonade" – 3:49
  11. "Pulcenta" – 2:11
  12. "Angol Argol" – 4:17
  13. "Bushy Bushy" – 3:37
  14. "13 13" – 4:01
  15. "Crab Claw" – 3:13

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