Name: A Trick Of The Tail
Brand: Genesis

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

6748972

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-03

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Universal

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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2017-04-03

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Genesis

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

After <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-gabriel-mn0000842802">Peter Gabriel</a> departed for a solo career, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/genesis-mn0000842802">Genesis</a> embarked on a long journey to find a replacement, only to wind back around to their drummer, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/phil-collins-mn0000337119">Phil Collins</a>, as a replacement. With <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/collins-mn0000337119">Collins</a> as their new frontman, the band decided not to pursue the stylish, jagged postmodernism of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lamb-lies-down-on-broadway-mw0000650187">The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway</a> -- a move that <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gabriel-mn0000842802">Gabriel</a> would do in his solo career -- and instead returned to the English eccentricity of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/selling-england-by-the-pound-mw0000189986">Selling England by the Pound</a> for its next effort, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-trick-of-the-tail-mw0000193940">A Trick of the Tail</a>. In almost every respect, this feels like a truer sequel to <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/selling-england-by-the-pound-mw0000189986">Selling England by the Pound</a> than <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/lamb-mw0000650187">Lamb</a>; 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, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/genesis-mn0000842802">Genesis</a> 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 <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/foxtrot-mw0000196095">Foxtrot</a>. Not that this album is quite as memorable as <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/foxtrot-mw0000196095">Foxtrot</a> or <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/selling-england-mw0000189986">Selling England</a>, 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 <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/genesis-mn0000842802">Genesis</a> could possibly thrive without its former leader in tow. 

A Trick Of The Tail

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