A TRICK OF THE TAIL

All was said and written. I only add, that one can understand that after great and big projects something subtler must come. Just to have some relax after exhausting journeys, just to sit in a garden and watch and listen. And relax. Nothing more. 'Yes' have relaxed after three big trips: ctte, tftto, and relayer; in 'going for the one' and especially in 'tormato'. And this album is the beginning of the genesis relax period involving great masterpieces anyway. And it is peculiar for Genesis, that even in doing their most ambitious works they had remained accesible, melodic, simply, enjoyable. and this side of their art becomes absolutely transparent in this album. Melodies to remember, beautiful harmonies, enchanting atmosphere, not to mention perfect musicality. I have written this somewhere already, with this album and those to come of both genesis and peter gabriel, it has become obvious: that was good moment for the music when they ways have divergated. And another fact has got clear in this album: what an extremely talented chap Phill Collins is.