WIND & WUTHERING

Without Peter Gabriel, and Steve Hackett with a foot and a half outside due to undisguised musical differences with the rest of the band, Genesis releases "Wind and Wuthering", the last production with progressive overtones before embarking on their path through different musical currents.

We are no longer going to find apocalyptic supper´s readies, nor ruthless fights between opposing groups in the forests of Epping, those times were already history, but with "Wind and Wuthering" the band develops very successful songs, using the progressive patterns that still existed in their veins, and with a lot of prominence from keyboardist Tony Banks.

The sprawling "Eleventh Earl of Mar" and "One for the Vine" with their varied and changing landscapes; Hackett's impeccably clean classical guitar opening "Blood on the Rooftops"; and the final sequence of the album, from the instrumental and complementary "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." and "...In That Quiet Earth" to the melancholic "Afterglow", are all signs that Genesis said goodbye with honor to the genre. that they knew how to develop and enlarge in the early 70s.

After "Wind and Wuthering" was over, Hackett left the band to focus on his solo career (in fact he had already released the very good "Voyage of the Acolyte" from 1975), and the leadership of Genesis and their future musical path would begin to be marked from that moment by Phil Collins.

3.5/4 stars