From Genesis To Revelation – GENESIS***

Where The Sour Turns To Sweet/In the Beginning/Fireside Song/The Serpent/Am I Very Wrong/Silent Sun/In The Wilderness/The Conqueror/In Hiding/One Day/Window/In Limbo/A Place To Call My Own

From Genesis To Revelation was the debut album from the British progressive group Genesis. They would turn out to be a major musical force during the seventies and eighties but on this one the boys are still on a learning curve. Next year’s follow up would find them hitting their stride.

“Genesis' debut album hasn't received that much appreciation over the years and to be honest I think it's nothing very special either. Their sound is very light and baroque pop oriented on this album, and demonstrates very little of their future complex progressive rock style which made them famous in the early 70s.”

“Got some good songs, had some promise, but they definitely needed more experience; more maturity. Not much here to prepare you for what was to come. Mainly psych-pop ditties with heavily over-produced orchestrations.”

“It's pretty typical 60s pop/rock for the most part. There's nothing particularly bad about it, but you'd be no worse off skipping this. It's not a bad album, but its just not where Genesis would turn in their next few albums.”

“This album is very different from the later stuff, not progressive at all, short songs and very mellow. Pop/rock with influences of acoustic and symphonic rock. Overall not a great album, but there are a couple of memorable songs, and the fact that all band members were below twenty is pretty impressive.”

“This concept album, which presents the Biblical story covered by thirteen songs, is full of great melodies, clever lyrics and heartfelt delivery. The album was carefully produced and the orchestral arrangements, done with great taste, were just perfect for the music and solidified the album, hiding whatever shortcomings were there as a result of lack of experience by the band.”

“Arguably not their strongest early release, this one seems to be all over the place. Most of the material is on the soft side, though a few livelier tracks are present. Some have great period flavour, but others are weak and seem self indulgent. This sounds virtually nothing like the sound that would propel them to fame in the following decade.”