Description: Trespass by Genesis [CD] Track Listing: 1 Looking For Someone2 White Mountain3 Visions Of Angels4 Stagnation5 Dusk6 The KnifeFinally! The second Genesis album is out on CD, the one whose supporting tour remains perhaps the most theatrical rock show ever mounted! With the original line-up including Peter Gabriel (and no Phil Collins). --- Genesis' first truly progressive album, and their first record for the Charisma label (although Trespass was released in America by ABC, which is how MCA came to have it), is important mostly as a formative effort. Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, and Michael Rutherford are here, but the guitarist is Anthony Phillips and the drummer is John Mathew. Gabriel, Banks, Phillips, and Rutherford are responsible for the compositions, which are far more ambitious than the group's earlier efforts ("Silent Sun," etc.). Unfortunately, much of what is here is more interesting for what it points toward than what it actually does -- the group reflects a peculiarly dramatic brand of progressive rock, very theatrical as music, but not very successful. The lyrics are complex enough but lack the unity and clarity that would make Genesis' subsequent albums among the most interesting of prog rock efforts to analyze. Gabriel's voice is very expressive but generally lacks power and confidence, while the conventional backup vocalizing by the others is wimpy, and Phillips' playing is muted. Tony Banks' keyboards are the dominant instruments, which isn't that bad, but it isn't the Genesis that everyone came to know. The soft, lyrical "Visions of Angels" and "Stagnation" are typical, gentle works by a band that later learned how to rock much harder. Only one of the songs here, "The Knife" -- which rocks harder than anything else on Trespass and is easily the best track on the album -- lasted in the group's concert repertory past the next album. ~ Bruce Eder, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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Artist: Genesis
Record Label: MCA Records
Release Title: Trespass
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Custom Bundle: No
Original Release Year: 1974
Type: Album
Format: CD
Language: English
Producer: John Anthony
Release Year: 1993
Style: Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Prog Rock, Album Rock
Features: Sealed
Genre: Rock
