Album contains couple of great melodies and had the potential to being a more or less good Genesis debut album, but production make look Genesis like a generic pop band with no future(!!!). The instrumentation is kind of muffled by the string and horns tardily overdubbed by their pop producer, Jonathan King.rPeter Gabriel already demonstrates his talent at the micro while Tony Banks offers interesting piano lines. Sadly, the other instruments was to some extent too low in the mix. In the end, a simple acoustic album would have been way more profitable. Bonus track and single 'Winter's Tale' has to be my fav song on here, even if it sounds nowhere near like Genesis. Two more bonus, 'One eyed Hound' and 'That's Me' are folk rock tracks with a lot of potential but again, only spoiled by the weak production. The band did their more important move when they fired their pop-oriented manager. If they didn't, they would not have been entering into the realm of prog anytime soon, and 'Trespass' would have arguably never seen the day.
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