Label: Charisma Records (UK), CDSCD 4001
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Pop
Country: Godalming, Surrey, England
Time: 51:08
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 308 Mb
Charts: UK #3, AUS #93, GER #43, ITA #4, NL #7, NZ #4, SWE #17, US #31. UK & US: Gold.
After
Peter Gabriel departed for a solo career, Genesis embarked on a long
journey to find a replacement, only to wind back around to their
drummer, Phil Collins, as a replacement. With Collins as their new
frontman, the band decided not to pursue the stylish, jagged
postmodernism of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway -- a move that Gabriel
would do in his solo career -- and instead returned to the English
eccentricity of Selling England by the Pound for its next effort, A
Trick of the Tail. In almost every respect, this feels like a truer
sequel to Selling England by the Pound than Lamb; after all, that double
album was obsessed with modernity and nightmare, whereas this album
returns the group to the fanciful fairy tale nature of its earlier
records. Also, Genesis were moving away from the barbed pop of the first
LP and returning to elastic numbers that showcased their instrumental
prowess, and they sounded more forceful and unified as a band than they
had since Foxtrot. Not that this album is quite as memorable as Foxtrot
or Selling England, largely because its songs aren't as immediate or
memorable: apart from "Dance on a Volcano," this is about the sound of
the band playing, not individual songs, and it succeeds on that level
quite wildly -- to the extent that it proved to longtime fans that
Genesis could possibly thrive without its former leader in tow.
(allmusic.com/album/a-trick-of-the-tail-mw0000193940)
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