A TRICK OF THE TAIL

Not quite as good as Wind and Wuthering, but still a decent album. The first track is excellent, and reminds one of great tracks on Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme, like Watcher and Friday. Good stuff that seemed to show that Gabriel was not as big a loss as it might have been. Entangled is a fantastic song that brings back the twelve string beauty of earlier works. The vocal parts are very good and very well done with excellent harmonies. One of my favorites from the two post Gabriel with Hackett albums.

But at this point, the album begins to lose me. Robbery and Ripples are not bad songs, but the rest do little for me. Most of the rest of the album just sort of washes over me and seem nondescript and a little boring. Still, there is nothing terrible or unlistenable, just nothing that does much for me. Final track, Los Endos is a nice coda to the album and does a great job of pulling all the major themes of the album together in an exciting and impressive way.

Overall, not one of the better albums from early Genesis, and probably my least favorite of their prog period (I don't count their debut........since I've never heard it and have no interest in hearing it). Still, a decent album though that is deserving of a three star rating, even if only for the two excellent opening tracks.