Genesis is back!

Review Score: (8/10)
Not far from being a great Genesis album, Duke is nonetheless a very good one. The group moved farther into the pop domain and began to see some serious mainstream American success.

The engineer compressed the daylights out of this album. It annoys the heck out of me to hear overt ducking on a CD! In the vinyl days, compression was essential for long albums like this one--otherwise you run out of groove space. And it sounds fine on the radio. But it doesn't do anything for listening on headphones or good speakers. I don't know whether the compression was addressed in the remaster or not--I haven't bought a new copy. (Yet.)

The coolest thing about this album is that it contains the ONLY pop song that I've ever heard on the radio in 13 meter. That's right--part of Turn It on Again is in 13/4. Who'd a thunk it.

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