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Genesis

Symphonic Prog

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To play devil's advocate, I'd say that this was one of the more convincing attempts by a 1970s Progressive band to address the music, sounds and concerns of the 1980s.

While not as special or intense as the Gabriel, or immediate post-Gabriel-era albums, this is still a heartfelt, creative and genuinely Progressive album, with hints of the old band creeping through (the pomp of Dodo/Lurker, the long fade-out on the title track).

Keep It Dark, Man On The Corner and the musical content of Whodunnit?, show a band who are still expanding the range of their sound and subject matter and who are still actively listening to what's happening around them (especially Gabriel's magical third album).

In a year that produced genuinely Progressive masterpieces such as Japan's Tin Drum and Laurie Anderson's Big Science, Genesis show that they cared about what they did by not repeating their former glories and enthusiastically trying to evolve with the times.

Worth re-appraising.

| 4/5 | 2005-4-10

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