Invisible Touch by Genesis

Invisible Touch, the Genesis album that landed in June 1986, arrived after Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins had spent 1984 apart, each off on his own solo work. They regrouped in October 1985 with engineer and producer Hugh Padgham and built the songs the same way they had last time, jamming them into shape in the studio with nothing written beforehand.

What came out is sleek, glossy and built for the airwaves, Banks's synths shimmering and Collins's drums cracking like gunshots, from the bouncy title track to the tense sprawl of "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" and "Land of Confusion", whose video won a Grammy. Five singles from it made the US top five, a first for any band, with the title track their only American number one, and the album topped the UK chart. Some critics grumbled that it sounded too much like a Collins solo record; it's still the biggest seller Genesis ever had.

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