Tom Verlaine - Around
Tom Verlaine - Songs and Other Things
The songwriter and guitarist Verlaine of the great early New York quasi-punk band Television emerges from a 14-year hiatus with one album of instrumentals and one of more conventional songs. The instrumental record (Around) suffers from the lack of strong melodies and some uncharacteristically diffident guitar-playing.
The second record is probably Verlaine's strongest since 1981's Dreamtime. Verlaine's singing (or singspiel in some spots) and the stinging guitar comes close to evoking some of his best stuff with Television. Particularly excellent is "From Her Fingers," "The Earth Is In The Sky," and "All Weirded Out." Some of the songs, including instrumental opener "A Parade in Littleton", are excessively polite and lacking in punch.
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