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Album artwork for The Painted Word by Television Personalities

This is a Record Store Day 2017 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 22nd April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 29th April.

Limited edition, black on white marbled vinyl +DL card, 1000 only. Released in 1984, The Painted Word is TVP’s fourth studio album is “one of the most wanton and willful cases of self-immolation you’re ever likely to hear” (Melody Maker). Breaking up two year’s prior, TVP’s returned with this stunning dark comeback shares the same name as the Tom Wolfe novel. With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving and seminal artists with a career spanning over three decades. The indie pop visionaries influenced many people across the industry including Battles, Black Dice, Crystal Stilts, MGMT and Creation Records’ Alan McGee. The Painted Word is reissued for Record Store Day 2017 and will be available on black and white marbled vinyl alongside And Don’t The Kids Just Love It, Mummy Your Not Watching Me and They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles. “a stark, unforgiving look at the despair of a man lost in his own world.” Alan McGee – Creation Records / “There's still no album quite like it” Exclaim

Television Personalities

The Painted Word

Fire Records
Album artwork for The Painted Word by Television Personalities
LP

£27.99

Released 29/04/2017Catalogue Number

FIRELP229X

Television Personalities

The Painted Word

Fire Records
Album artwork for The Painted Word by Television Personalities
LP

£27.99

Released 29/04/2017Catalogue Number

FIRELP229X

This is a Record Store Day 2017 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 22nd April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 29th April.

Limited edition, black on white marbled vinyl +DL card, 1000 only. Released in 1984, The Painted Word is TVP’s fourth studio album is “one of the most wanton and willful cases of self-immolation you’re ever likely to hear” (Melody Maker). Breaking up two year’s prior, TVP’s returned with this stunning dark comeback shares the same name as the Tom Wolfe novel. With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving and seminal artists with a career spanning over three decades. The indie pop visionaries influenced many people across the industry including Battles, Black Dice, Crystal Stilts, MGMT and Creation Records’ Alan McGee. The Painted Word is reissued for Record Store Day 2017 and will be available on black and white marbled vinyl alongside And Don’t The Kids Just Love It, Mummy Your Not Watching Me and They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles. “a stark, unforgiving look at the despair of a man lost in his own world.” Alan McGee – Creation Records / “There's still no album quite like it” Exclaim