{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Tropics and Meridians | type = Album | artist = June of 44 | cover = Tropics_and_Meridians.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1996|6|18}} | recorded = {{Start date|1996}} | venue = | studio = Chicago Recording Company<br /> {{small|(Chicago, IL)}} | genre = Post-hardcore, math rock | length = 36:45 | label = Quarterstick | producer = Bob Weston | prev_title = Engine Takes to the Water | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = The Anatomy of Sharks (EP) | next_year = 1997 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Bret |last=Love |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000648787|pure_url=yes}}|title=June of 44: ''Tropics and Meridians'' > Review |website=Allmusic |accessdate=April 23, 2016}}</ref> }}
'''''Tropics and Meridians''''' is the second studio album by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44, released on June 18, 1996 by Quarterstick Records.<ref>{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=189 |title=June of 44 : Tropics and Meridians |publisher=Touch and Go Records |date=2005 |accessdate=April 23, 2016}}</ref><ref name="trouserpress">{{cite magazine |first1=Ira |last1=Robbins |first2=Mark |last2=Woodlief |url=http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=rodan |title=June of 44 |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=April 23, 2016}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Fred Erskine, Sean Meadows, Jeff Mueller and Doug Scharin | title1 = Anisette | length1 = 9:17 | title2 = Lusitania | length2 = 2:50 | title3 = Lawn Bowler | length3 = 7:45 | title4 = June Leaf | length4 = 5:10 | title5 = Arms Over Arteries | length5 = 6:31 | title6 = Sanctioned in a Birdcage | length6 = 5:12 }}
==Personnel== Adapted from the ''Tropics and Meridians'' liner notes.<ref name="linearnotes">{{cite AV media notes |title=Tropics and Meridians |others=June of 44 |year=1996 |type=booklet |publisher=Quarterstick Records |location=Chicago, Illinois}}</ref> ;June of 44 * Sean Meadows – vocals, electric guitar * Jeff Mueller – vocals, electric guitar * Fred Erskine – bass guitar * Doug Scharin – drums ;Production * Bob Weston – production, recording, mixing
==Release history== {|class="wikitable" ! Region ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog |- | United States | 1996 | Quarterstick | CD, LP | QS44 |}
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== External links == * {{Discogs master |master=47156 |name=Tropics and Meridians|type=album}}
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Category:1996 albums Category:June of 44 albums Category:Quarterstick Records albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Weston