Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol. 40 Number 4. March 21 1977

Genesis: Wind and Wuthering

Genesis: Wind and Wuthering

Probably destined to be 1977's biggest album. 'Wind and Wuthering', should once and for all dispel any fears Genesis fans may have that Peter Gabriel's departure from the group has stuffed its creative ability.

Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford are now Genesis which is still very much alive and well. The musicianship on the album is first class, with "Blood On The Rooftops" highlighting Hackett's classical guitar playing, while the only instrumental on the album, "Wot Gorilla?" exhibits Collin's fine drumming. Bank's great keyboard Knowledge and Rutherford as a proficient bassist. "Distinctive Genesis" about describes the musical range of the album, with all the arranging by the group, and production shared by them and David Henscthel.

Typically an album full of new and not-so-new social, religious and political concepts. " Wind and Wuthering" sports humour in "All In A Mouses' Night", a religious anecdote in One For The Vine", political satire and disappointment in "Blood On The Rooftops", with the tracks "Your Own Special Way", "Afterglow" and "Eleventh Earl of Man" being two love songs and a narrative respectively.

Ethereal and mystic. Genesis are always as distant as the world's beginnings, leaving us craving more of this 'new' music.