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Genesis

Foxtrot

Very Rare original UK LP released on Charisma Records in 1972. 1st UK pressing on the Mad Hatter label with the B&C Credit at the bottom of the labels. The Textured gatefold sleeve is Printed & made by the E.J. Day Group and has the 'Marketed by B&C Records Ltd' credit and comes complete with the Charisma inner sleeve.

Matrix No's

Side One - CAS 1058 A-1U

Side Two - CAS 1058 B-1U

Foxtrot is where Genesis began to pull all of its varied inspirations into a cohesive sound -- which doesn't necessarily mean that the album is streamlined, for this is a group that always was grandiose even when they were cohesive, or even when they rocked, which they truly do for the first time here. Indeed, the startling thing about the opening "Watcher of the Skies" is that it's the first time that Genesis attacked like a rock band, playing with a visceral power. There's might and majesty here, and it, along with "Get 'Em Out by Friday," is the truest sign that Genesis has grown muscle without abandoning the whimsy. Certainly, they've rarely sounded as fantastical or odd as they do on the epic 22-minute closer "Supper's Ready," a nearly side-long suite that remains one of the group's signature moments. It ebbs, flows, teases, and taunts, see-sawing between coiled instrumental attacks and delicate pastoral fairy tales. If Peter Gabriel remained a rather inscrutable lyricist, his gift for imagery is abundant, as there are passages throughout the album that are hauntingly evocative in their precious prose. But what impresses most about Foxtrot is how that precociousness is delivered with pure musical force. This is the rare art-rock album that excels at both the art and the rock, and it's a pinnacle of the genre (and decade) because of it.

 

Tracks Are :-

Side One

1 Watcher Of The Skies 7:23
2 Time Table 4:46
3 Get 'Em Out By Friday 8:37
4 Can-Utility And The Coastliners 5:45

Side Two

1 Horizons' 1:41
Supper's Ready (22:52)
2-1 Lover's Leap
2-2 The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man
2-3 Ikhnaton And Itsacon And Their Band Of Merry-Men
2-4 How Dare I Be So Beautiful?
2-5 Willow Farm
2-6 Apocalypse In 9/8
2-7 As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)

 

Released on Charisma Records in 1972

Catalogue Number CAS 1058

Record is in Ex condition

Sleeve is in Ex  condition

 

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