FOXTROT

Foxtrot...This beautiful cover art, this incredible last song (Supper's Ready)...Probably one of the best Genesis albums, but there a two songs here that I don't like : Get' Em Out By Friday (the live version on Genesis Live is better) and Can-Utility And The Coastliners. But the album opening, Watcher Of The Skies, is marvellous (what an introduction, it heards like the 'sound of the sea' you can hear in a shell !), Time Table is pretty, and could have been a good single. Horizons, first track on side B, is a short instrumental, really beautiful. And there is Supper's Ready, almost 23 minutes of pure prog rock genius. I can't find the words when I speak about this song. Just : hear it. But in its globality, I found Foxtrot a little overrated. For example, the previous album, Nursery Cryme, is largerly better. So, only three stars for Foxtrot, but taken separately, almost each song deserves 4 or 5 stars.