TRESPASS

No shrilly, silly garbage filler material on this album! Dark, heavy damp, almost nightmarish Rock sounds throughout. Genesis, throughout their years, has always authored the most poignant of instrumental Rock interludes - but the listener usually had to use their imagination to place these into a Rock perspective. (In contrast to Deep Purple, who effortlessly fused Classical intensions to bone vibrating Rock.)

But the Whole of "Trespass" SOUNDS like a serious Rock band playing out their artistic mood to a highly credible degree, sort of in the context of "In the Court of the Crimson King" - but with more emphasis on guitar work. This album was before Peter began to overdo it with the corny stuff, and before Tony and (later guitatrist) Steve Hackett would compete to see who's 'sound' would make it up front first - the latter effect ruining the sound quality of many "classic" Genesis Lps by creating an obnoxious wall of shrilly noise.

"The Knife" is 8.93 minutes of thrilling, heavy rock...the best one song that the band ever recorded. Timeless, always rousing and, above all, serious electric Rock. That song and this album was underappreciated at the time (1970), but has since been vindicated. Many now agree that "Trespass" shows the finest strenghths of Genesis as a credible Art Rock powerhouse.