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. Mastered by engineer Rob LoVerde, this numbered-edition reissue of the effort Pitchfork named the third greatest of the entire 1970s plays with excellent…

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