Ever since I moved to Boston I have been listening to nothing new. Partially its that working with arm's reach of your boss isn't that conducive to work listening. I did hear about this recently though - I'm a big believe in Hackett's centrality to Genesis's heyday-era output, so this seemed like it had potential.
Left me limp though. One problem here is the choice of tracks: we get takes on Your Own Special Way and For Absent Friends, which were never especially interesting tracks, and a series of unreleased tracks, which really sound like more-modern prog-lite: too crisply produced, too stringy, too forced in their Bombast, too Journey. The only really promising attempts are Watcher of the Skies (which is too faithful, sounding a bit uncanny) and Dance on a Volcano (which is at least a bit more adventurous, and the standout of the album).
The album title is a bit too accurate. This is Genesis revisited, but just gussied up without a lot of real craft or spirit of adventure. I wanted Genesis reinvented, or at least respected 2/5
You might like this if: you liked Genesis's shorter, sweeter songs, or wished that their more epic songs had more strings and production polish. You like lightweight prog and want to ease into the messier stuff.
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