FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION

For the purposes of this review I have stuck to the original recording and not to the extended release with bonus tracks. This is very much lighter fare to later Genesis albums and I would suggest that this is very much psychadelic pop music for the time period of the release. It isn't hard to recognise Peter Gabriel's voice here and that is a good thing. I do hear strains of the Genesis to come in "When the Sour turns to Sweet", "Am I very Wrong" and "In the Wilderness". This is purely pleasant music without any sharp edges and I wonder what it would have sounded like had Collins and Hackett been members from the beginning instead of Silver and Phillips, not that I can fault the latter two for their performance in what this is. It's bubbly stuff and one has to remember that these were essentially schoolboys when this was released. Those wondering if the intelligence and the maturity lyrically and musically that made up later Genesis works is here are looking in the wrong place. This isn't a poor album at what it attempts to do but there is nothing seperating it from similar works of the time. It is very competent considering the ages of the band members and as an airy psychadelic pop music album. I would rate this to be an album for Genesis completionists as it holds no other importance to the world of prog rock music and thus I award 2 stars. It won't hurt you but it won't make you jump up and down in ecstacy either.