INVISIBLE TOUCH

Hm, this album is an ambiguous effort by the band and can certainly not be compared to the seventies output by this band.... But for a start, I have to say that I really like this album for the pop it contains. From a progressive point of view, not much can be found here. Their abilities shine through in "Domino" and "The Brazilian" and parts of "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight". (I would also count in the B-side "Do the neurotic".) Maybe Genesis could have, if they had concentrated more on that, catered for two spectrums: the pop fraction and the prog fraction. Trouble is, that that effort would never result in a pure outcome on either side. The pop side is quite good ("Land of confusion" stands out here.the rest is a good Collins Album.) and pop itself is quite good for the charts - IT served quite well here - but prog has a higher ambition in a league in which IT certainly could never play. And other Genesis albums after "And then there were three" suffer from the same shortcomings. So, IT is 6/8 pop and 2/8 prog. Maybe a rate one can expect from eighties prog-rock bands. (Yes did "90125", which also cannot be counted as prog, imho) I give IT three out of five stars, because I really like the album for its pop character. (Prog-wise it is only worth two stars, for the attempt - "Domino" and "The Brazilian" - more or less Banks' tunes.no surprises here).