“Ripples” by Genesis

"Ripples" floats out of A Trick of the Tail, the album Genesis put out on Charisma in February 1976 to prove they could soldier on after Peter Gabriel walked. Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford wrote the music, Rutherford wrote the words, and Phil Collins, only lately talked into stepping up to the microphone, sings lead and backing vocals while still manning the drums and shaking a tambourine.

It's a lush weave of 12-strings, with Banks, Rutherford and Steve Hackett all playing them, Hackett adding electric guitar, Banks piano and Rutherford bass and bass pedals. The band produced it with David Hentschel at Trident Studios in London, with Hentschel and Nick Bradford engineering, and the whole thing swells and recedes like the water in its title.

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