Name: Around
Brand: Tom Verlaine

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-RGM-1711RT

Colour

Grey

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Discogs ID

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2024-07-12

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

848064017110

Total Cap

9999

Grey LP | Rough Trade Exclusive

LP-RGM-1700C

Brown

Sunglasses Brown

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format: No

848064017004

Brown LP

Artist

Tom Verlaine

Genre US

New Wave / Post Punk

Label US

Real Gone Music

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

The true test of originality for any musician comes when you hear an instrument being played and you instantly know who’s playing it. For electric guitarists, certainly Hendrix qualifies; Page and Clapton, too. Maybe Eddie Van Halen before the legion of imitators. You probably have your own list, but to us, standing toe-to-toe (or pick-to-pick) with those legends is Television guitarist and solo artist Tom Verlaine. His self-taught, jazz-influenced style, largely devoid of effects, and vibrato tone (oh, that tone!) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo. That he was quite an accomplished, idiosyncratic songwriter is just a bonus. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to announce that we have arranged with the Verlaine estate to release Tom’s last three solo albums on LP, of which this one, 2006’s Around, is the second. Around picks up the lofty mantle of the Warm and Cool album that was released 14 years prior with another set of utterly mesmerizing instrumentals, ranging from solo, almost raga-esque explorations (“Flame”) to post-rock vamps (“Balcony”) to abstract sketches (“A Burned Letter”) to the kind of indescribable, utterly gorgeous beauty that only this man and his guitar could pull off (“Eighty-Eights”). That’s old Television band-mate Billy Ficca on drums; bassist and original engineer Patrick Derivaz’s new mastering for vinyl will make this record sing and breathe along with you (and vice versa). Tom’s long-time partner, artist Jutta Koether, again supplies notes in the enclosed insert.&nbsp;

Around

Music US

Discover "Around" by Tom Verlaine on Real Gone Music. Mesmerizing instrumentals on vinyl, showcasing Verlaine's unmistakable guitar style.