A TRICK OF THE TAIL

Genesis

Symphonic Prog

4.28 | 2950 ratings

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This album came out after the band masterpiece double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and it was the first without Peter Gabriel.

So the fans were merely sure it could be a flop. But it wasn't!

The ambientation was really different from the darkness and undergrond situation af the preceding album, but here we can find another time the aim to tell fairytales, as Squonk and A Trick of the tail, shown in the very early albums of the band.

Nowadays we can argue that the easy listening influence of mr. Collins was already taking place, though balanced by the Steve Hackett prog-creativity.

I think Steve Hackett is still one of the greatest prog-guitar players of all times.

But the album is brilliant and full of magic moments of great music.

Starting from the wonderful 7/8 of Dance on a Volcano and passing through Squonk, Mad Man Moon and Ripples we reach one of the greatest instrumental prog-standards played by the moltitudes of prog-musicians: Los Endos, where the instruments seem to melt together and where in the very end of the track we can listen the Collins tribute to the former great singer (There's an Angel standing in the sun. To Peter Gabriel) and our spine shivers with emotion.

Collins remembers the Gabriel way of singing, but his tune is much higher, so sometimes he becomes a little strident, with the respect of Gabriel's beloved deep tune.

Moreover Gabriel was always been a great performer (and still he is!) while Collins was still far from it.

Luckily the instrumental parts of the whole album are great, well performed and rich with feeling, starting from Rutherford's bass to Collins' drums and passing through the richness of Banks' keyboards and Hackett's extraordinary guitar.

I cannot give less than 4 stars. Nearly a masterpiece.

progpromoter | 4/5 | 2008-8-2

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