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The Gods' debut album was the sound of a band capturing the transition of British psychedelia into more ostentatious progressive hard rock. Ken Hensley's heavy Hammond organ was the center of their sound, and both that and the sometimes overbearing vibrato vocals pointed toward the less psychedelic sounds he and drummer Lee Kerslake would pursue in Uriah Heep. Genesis is undoubtedly lighter than Uriah Heep, though, often employing characteristically late-'60s British vocal harmonies. Some tunes, like "Candles Getting Shorter" and "Radio Show," even skirt a pop-soul sensibility. But the songs weren't terribly memorable, though they were segued together by brief odd'n'goofy instrumental bits at the end of tracks in keeping with the modus operandi of the psychedelic era. The Mellotron in "I Never Know" does rather remind one of the way the instrument was used on King Crimson's first album, though King Crimson inserted it into much better material.
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Similar artists: HEAD MACHINE, TOE FAT, URIAH HEEP, GREG LAKE
Specifications
Type: CD
Recorded: 1968
Release Date: 2015-11-28
Label: Parlophone
Country: Japan
Item No: WPCR-16864
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Track List
01 Towards The Skies
02 Candles Getting Shorter
03 You're My Life
04 Looking Glass
05 Misleading Colours
06 Radio Show
07 Plastic Horizon
08 Farthing Man
09 I Never Knew
10 Time And Eternity
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