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Television - Marquee Moon
Hybrid SACD
Cat No. CMFSA2321
UPC: 821797232166
Experience the Pioneering Record in Audiophile Sound:
Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Exceptional Clarity, Textures, and Tones
Television’s Marquee Moon reimagines guitar rock in such original, pioneering ways that critics and fans still struggle to describe its essence five decades after its original release. Made after the band cut its teeth for four years amid New York’s thriving arts scene, the 1977 album blends the inimitable interplay of guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd; spontaneous and precise approaches; and winding arrangements that draw as much from classical, jazz, and psychedelia as the punk ethos to which the album is often linked.
Marquee Moon reaches new sonic heights on Mobile Fidelity’s hybrid SACD. Housed in mini-LP-style packaging, this numbered-edition reissue of the effort Pitchfork named the third greatest of the entire 1970s plays with excellent detail, dynamics, and clarity. The presence, emotionalism, warmth, and dimensionality of the textures alone make this audiophile release a treat for both listeners who know the record inside-out and for audiophiles embarking on Television’s incomparable journeys for perhaps the first time.
You can hear that direct, focused, straight-line sound like never before on disc here, and how it illustrates the clean contours, tones, and shapes of every note committed to tape. And how it relates to the relatively minimal overdubs (piano, vocals) the band laid down after barely a week of main sessions with Johns, whose fanciest implementation involved swinging a vintage microphone like a lasso over his head as Lloyd double-tracked the solo to “Elevation.”
Track List:
1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction
4. Marquee Moon
5. Elevation
6. Guiding Light
7. Prove It
8. Torn Curtain