TRESPASS

Here is the second album from Genesis, and the first that deserved to be listened (in what progressive rock matters) . After the disaster which was From Genesis to Revelation, the british group decided to take a new way than that of beatle-look-a-like-musics, and to mix rock with symphonic and classic influences. Looking for Someone is for me a great song, varying through the track, but always maintaining a melodic signature where the keyboards from Tony Banks and the works from Anthony Phillips and Michael Rutherford really form a nice connection. The second track White Mountain maintains the vein of melodic sound, now turning it into a more dark sound, where Peter Gabriel with his full-of-emotion voice gives this song an epic feeling. The third song Visions of Angels is a nice track but really not one of their best, although the instrumental part of the track is quite good it really doesn't grabs you even after a lot of spins, the song is good, just is not one of my favorites, but I gotta tell ya, the musicianship is as always in these guys really good. Next we have Stagnation, now this track is one of my favorites, I mean the instrumental part which controls most of the track is astonishing and really good! Near the end this track reaches a really powerfull crescendo (but which will be even more powerful in the track The Knife). Now we have the track Dusk. In this song I like the choir that sings after a Peter Gabriel passage, it really gives it that epic feel, then followed by Peter Gabriel's flute sound which I'm very fond off, its not incredible flute playing, but it flows well with Anthony Phillips acoustic guitar work. This song is one again of my favorites in this album but now we have the big one. The Knife, is but only one of the masterpieces track existing in the progressive rock world. This track is impossible to analize, I'm right now hearing it, and it gives me the chills, all the group is incredible, Peter Gabriel's voice is powerfull and is perfect in this track, the guitar work from Anthony Phillips is incredible, I mean that solo he has in this song, magnificent, Tony Banks keyboard work is proeminent and a must in this track. Now that crescendo part in the track where the woman screams and we hear police sirens is mind blowing, and then enters Phillips guitar giving a hard rock sound making you just moving your head and wanting to smash something (well maybe I went too far) well I'm not going to strech in this analysis (just hear the song man!) the track then ends again with Gabriel singing in that old voice he liked to make, ending the album with a powerful bang and making you wanna hear Nursery Crime. In this album the group was really trying to understand its capabilities and trying to develop their sound, and so it would've been interesting to see where they would've gone with Phillips and Mayhew in the next albums. But then entered Phil Collins and Steve Hackett and all Genesis fans do not regret it a bit. Just because of Vision of Angels and because this album is not by all means a masterpiece (yet!) I'll give it four stars, but this album is a must have for anyone thats starting to hear Symphonic Prog or wants to learn of the past of the music we hear nowadays. A must have!