TRESPASS

I am not in ProgArchive to review these well known albums by the greatest artists. I very much like to go off the well trodden path and do reviews of unknown bands. But this album has been near the top of my playlist for the last couple of years so I think it at least deserve a short review.

This is what I regard as the first proper GENESIS album. The debut album is best forgotten. Trespass though starts with a pretty good song called Looking For Someone. It has a good interplay in the middle and it sets the tone for the rest of the album. The second song White Mountain is very good too. The word pastorial is most fitting for those two tracks and the rest of this album. Pastorial is also spelled as Visions Of Angels. Yes, the third song on this album. It is the most pastorial songs I have ever heard. And that says a lot. This song is not out of place in a church or a cathedral. It is also one of my alltime favorite GENESIS songs. It is fantastic. It is a worthy candidate for my own funeral. Stagnation is another brilliant song with some excellent interplay. Why those two last songs is never mentioned as some of GENESIS best songs; I will never know. But then again; I do not care. I stand by my own opinions and my love for those two songs. Dusk is another one of the hidden GENESIS jewels. It is simply brilliant in it's pastorial settings. It is like the songtitle; dusk. The last song of the album is the most known song from it and a live favorite. It is called The Knife. I actually rate it as one of the two weakest tracks here. But it is still superb in my ears. But it is not as good as Visions Of Angels.

This album is as English as tea and biscuits. It is also very much a superb album. I love it. I love the sound, the vocals and the feeling which lays over it. This album gives me peace. It also gives me a church like feeling. It has been ages since I visited a church-service. Mainly due to having this album in my collection. Trespass fills this gap in my life. OK, I am wabbling around now and the review is far longer than intended. But this is an album I love. I am not giving it five stars because I have sworn never to give out five stars again. But it is a close to five as possible. And that is my very subjective opinion about this album.

4.95 stars

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