FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION

Even without the virus of the incipient progressive movement inoculated in their veins, there are no major signs in "From Genesis to Revelation", their debut album, of what Genesis would come to represent for progressive rock from the later "Trespass" onwards; Rather, it is an accumulation of short songs in the style of the most classic pop rock of the late 60's, where the acoustic guitar of Anthony Phillips and the piano of Tony Banks support the rhythmic base on which most of the songs unfold, and with Peter Gabriel taking his first steps as a singer, timidly and with some flashes, far from the frontman he would become shortly after.

The album develops correctly, with interesting moments, as with the agile and sweet "Where the Sour Turns to Sweet", the brief introductory piano of Banks in the delicate "Fireside Song", the melancholy of "Am I Very Wrong?", the melody of "In the Wilderness", the very folk and with Dylanian airs "The Conqueror", or the arpeggios of the beautiful "Window". The rest of the pieces follow similar paths, without being out of tune, without any major pretensions other than being part of the presentation letter of adolescent musicians who still did not have a clear idea of the path they would follow.

The greatest value of "From Genesis to Revelation" resides not so much in its musical proposal, but in being the starting point of the musical adventure of Genesis in the genre that has it as one of its main references.

2.5/3 stars