TRESPASS

What a great album. This was my second foray into the world of Genesis (after Foxtrot), and let me tell you this album is nearly as good as Foxtrot. It features so many different moods: It rocks (the Knife), it has dreamy-ballad type songs (Visions of Angels, Stagnation, and Dusk), and it has some mysticality (White Mountain).

The opener, Looking for Someone, is a great song, featuring very smooth melodies which drift into one another, and it is all very beautiful. Near the end, Gabriel yells 'All that I have I will give!' and this cues the very awesome and epic sounding outro. All in all, an awesome song.

White Mountain is a much more fantasy based song about a wolf named Fang who has 'Trespassed' against the laws of his wolf brethen and is being hunted by the rest of the pack. It features three main melodies, which are all very epic sounding, and it also has an outro and intro with some cool mellotron and 12 string. There is another cool interlude where Gabriel does some whistling, very original stuff.

Visions of Angels is a dreamy little ballad, with some very beautiful melodies and a good chorus, with some cool mellotron and piano riffs. A good song.

Stagnation is the least accessible on the album maybe, it takes the most listens to get into. It is all very mellow, with deep meaningful lyrics, and wonderful vocals, and some great backing vocals from the rest of the band.

Dusk is probably the weak spot as others have said, but its still good. Very mellwo like stagnation, with some great lyrics and once again great backing vocals, not too mention Gabriel himself.

The Knife is the heaviest Genesis song I've heard, and it is awesome the whole way through. Awesome lyrics and vocals. It is about some revolution, but the revolutionaries turn out to be bad too. It has one long dreamy quiet interlude, but the rest of it is straight up Hard prog rock, almost metal at times. Listen to it on this site, if you like it, you will love this album probably.

So this is like one of Genesis's forgotten albums, it really is awesome. All the songs are great, with the standouts being The Knife, Stagnation, and White Mountain. The others are awesome too though. Buy this, and you won't be disapointed.