Phil's most personal and atmospheric album

Review Score: (8/10)
I'm a fan of personal artistic statements. Especially by artists that have already shown that they can write for a mass audience. That certainly applies in Phil's case; he was one of the most popular musicians of the 1980's.

But the 1990's were different. And certainly in this post 9/11 world, things are even more different now. Irrevocably so. What are we to make of a song like "We Wait and We Wonder" which Phil explained back in 1993 as:

"To the outsider it seems that we in Britain live daily under the cloud of terrorism. That familiarity sometimes makes you think of it as almost normal, then suddenly something will happen..."

Overlord Phil the prescient?

I like what Phil did with this album, and I like what he's done with his sound since. The bottom line is that Phil Collins is a musician--a great musician. That's why he is respected by his peers, and why people like James Carter and Quincy Jones play with him. Phil just gets it. He's always gotten it. And his current audience, for the most part, gets it too.

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