FOXTROT

Genesis

Symphonic Prog

4.61 | 4056 ratings

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Foxtrot is my favorite album ever made, period. My list of top 10 changes quite frequently but in all my time listening to prog, this has remained constant

We open with the soaring Mellotron of Watcher of the Skies, if this isn't the best use of a mellotron in prog, I don't know what is. The band progressively joins in and holds no punches. It's also worth noting Collins also has some carpel-tunnel inducing drumming going on.

The production on Collins drums and the album overall is fantastic as well. Gabriel sounds great and everything has a punch behind it

We have two softer tracks with Time Tables and Horizons. Time Tables is more of a banks song, it has a real comfortable old-english vibe, it's got a nice hook. While horizons is Hacketts classical inspired piece. Makes me feel like in sitting on a beach all alone during the sunset.

Get em Out By Friday has always been a favorite, awesome explosive intro (drumming is worth noting) with a hard hitting verse. It's a song in the same style as Epping Forest or Hogweed where gabriel plays several different characters. My favorite part is when it turns to acoustic ("After all this time...") Gabriels vocals actually have some real emotion behind it in this section.

Can Utility and the Coastliners is a real gem. It starts light and builds into a heavy song with the dark organs found throughout nursery cryme. The band plays with such a great intensity throughout the song

Well... you already know Suppers Ready im sure!

I'll keep it short but it is never boring and the climax at the end is chilling. Its perfection, and I'll leave it at that.

In my opinion, this is the best album ever made, a few come close for me (Animals, Court of the Crimson King, Moonmadness) but I doubt that in my lifetime i'll hear an album better than this.

dougmcauliffe | 5/5 | 2019-2-23

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