Rating: 10/10

To dub Television as guitar wizards is to undersell them. Not because Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd could ever be accused of not mastering the instrument – they prove themselves as early as the album’s first riffs. And not because Marquee Moon couldn’t be classified as a guitar album – it undoubtedly centers around the interplay and exchange of leads between the two players. But at the same time, it is so much more than that. It is simply put, a case of an album where everything comes together, where every element is in its right place. It reads like a finished puzzle, which is crazy considering that it was only the band’s first effort.

Take Venus for example. The guitar parts are a serious contender for the album’s prettiest, but a lot of the magic has to do with just how well they blend in with the…