GENESIS – NURSERY CRYME

Description

As part of Atlantic’s commemoration of 75 years as a label, the early recordings of Genesis are getting a fresh airing in audiophile-quality repressing. This is the band in its purest form, with Peter Gabriel up front, Phil Collins on the drums and Steve Hackett on guitar, when they were a quintessential prog outfit with a peculiarly English sensibility that’s all of its own. Nursery Cryme was originally released in 1971 and it features sprawling epics like ‘The Return Of The Giant Hogweed’, which is as heavy and grooving as it is meandering, and the extravagant opener ‘The Musical Box’, excerpts of which remained in the band’s live set well into the 80s.