INVISIBLE TOUCH

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this was their best album after 1980 (Duke being their last great album). Not their best prog album, Abacab did that slightly better, but just a better album overall. Why? Well, it's an album you can listen to all the way and only cringe once or twice. The songs are actually pretty strong. Probably the worst is the title track, which starts off the album. I also could have done without Anything She Does, but otherwise, this album is actually pretty strong.

Tonight x3 is a really good song, and the shortened single version that you hear on the radio doesn't do it justice. It's not really prog, but it's catchy and it has a genuinely dark atmosphere in keeping with their earlier work. Land of Confusion is a solid pop song that is also both catchy and a little bit dark. Throwing it all Away is probably a song I shouldn't like, because it's a love ballad, but this is probably the best love ballad Genesis ever came up with, which isn't saying much, but still. And The Brazillion is a good instrumental reminiscent of Wot Gorilla.

But the best song on the album is the ten minute epic, Domino, which is probably the closest they got to prog after Duke. It's also the closest they got to the dark lyrical quality of the Gabriel era after Duke. I'm not saying it's comparable to any of their epics before 1981, but it's the best they ever got after 1980. And yes, it's much better than Fading Lights. This one has a lot more energy.

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