Genesis – Abacab (LP, Warner)

Limited 180 gram vinyl LP repressing of this album by the iconic British outfit. Phil Collins might be swinging away the late 1990s but in 1981 he was sharpening his pop chops from his first solo offering to this the first Genesis album to break the hallowed million-copy mark stateside. But Abacab wasn t entirely about charting Top 40 singles ( No Reply At All Man on the Corner and the title track); it still exhibited some late-stage evidence of a trio courting the art-rock muse that had graced it s past ( Who Dunnit Dodo Keep It Dark ). However by 1983 s eponymous follow-up the hit factory that was Genesis in the mid- to late-1980s was operating full steam ahead and the angel Gabriel s specter had all but vanished. Then there were truly only three.