Wind & Wuthering by Genesis

Wind & Wuthering, the eighth studio album from Genesis, arrived on Charisma in December 1976, the second record the four-piece cut after Peter Gabriel's exit and the last with guitarist Steve Hackett. Riding high off the tour for A Trick of the Tail, they decamped to Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands, the first time they'd made an album outside the UK, with David Hentschel producing.

It's Genesis at their most lush and romantic: Tony Banks' keyboards pile up like storm clouds, Mike Rutherford's bass and guitars roll underneath, and Phil Collins, now settled behind the mic as well as the kit, sings with a gentle warmth. But the grandeur hid cracks. Hackett felt his ideas were getting binned in favor of Banks' material, and he was gone after the 1977 tour. "Your Own Special Way" became the band's first single to chart in America, and three leftovers from the sessions surfaced on the Spot the Pigeon EP.

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