FOXTROT

Foxtrot is actually my second venture into Genesis. This album precedes the album I reviewed before this, Selling England By The Pound, which I found to be an odd mixture of great and bad. Reviewing Foxtrot, from 1972 (arguably prog's finest year), I hope to find a more consistent album from the legendary Genesis.

Watcher of the Skies is a good song, but the transitions and melodies aren't strong enough to make it memorable. Tony Banks' keys are in the forefront, and fit nicely, but nothing seems to fall together well enough. (7/10)

Time Table is really nothing more than just a decent song. It's not particuarly thoughtful or interesting, but moreso something you'd hear on a classic rock radio station. (5/10)

Get 'Em Out By Friday has more going for it than the others, it has excellent musical interplay, but a lot of it is droning and Gabriel's vocals are too busy. (7.5/10)

Can-Utility And The Coastliners, interesting name and interesting song. Definitely a stronger song melodically and keeps you interested throughout it's entirety. Nothing too serious however. (8/10)

Horizon's is a Hackett acoustic solo, it's pretty nice and it molds into the next song quite well, but I can't help but to say I've heard much better out of Howe's acoustic spots. (7.5/10)

Supper's Ready is simply Genesis in a song, all the moods and low and high points of Genesis is in this song, rating this is like rating the entire band. Simply it's like a Genesis record in itself. (8.5/10)

Well, in the end, Foxtrot is a collection of good songs, some a bit better than good, one of them a bit below. It's more of an art-pop record than most because of it's conventional manner, some moments very proggy, such as Supper's Ready. Nothing it's on too high of a great level here, but nothing here is bad. Selling England By The Pound has better moments than this record, but also worse moments than anything on this record. All in all this album has a bit more meat to it than the other. (7.5/10)

[OVERALL SCORE: 7.3 or 3.5 stars, rounded to 4 stars]