Has anyone else discovered this amazing album?
Basically, in 2018 a duo aged 19 and 21 have written their own Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, skillfully combining the sound of all the great groups from the 60s & 70s with some Broadway musicals thrown in. There’s plenty here to appeal to Genesis fans including some very Hackettesque guitar in “Never know”, Trespass-era Genesis sandwiched in a melodramatic Broadway waltz in “Born wrong”, & in parts it’s quite proggy. Hard to pick a best track, but it’s probably “The Bully”, a bossa nova with sunny Beach Boy vocals telling a violently comic backstory, intercut with a marching band.
Like The Lamb, it’s best listened to as a whole but individual tracks stand up on their own, plus spotting the musical influences on each song is fun. You’ll either love it or hate it but you’ve got to admire their sheer ingenuity and chutzpah.