Foxtrot

The Genesis album of Supper's Ready and Hackett's guitar piece Horizons, and one of the two he rates as the band's best.
Steve Hackett, 1972

Released
1972
Recorded
August 1972
Studio
Island Studios, London
Label
Charisma
Producer
Dave Hitchcock and Genesis
Length
51:13

Genesis made Foxtrot in scattered sessions between tour dates. Bob Potter produced the early sessions without credit and Tony Platt briefly took over before Dave Hitchcock finished it, with John Burns engineering. Every track is credited to Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett and Rutherford, and Hackett played electric, six-string and twelve-string guitars. It reached 12 in Britain, then the band's best placing. Chris Welch in Melody Maker called it a milestone in the group's career, and Rolling Stone ranked it 14th among the greatest progressive rock albums in 2015. Hackett has said that, taken whole, Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound are the two best Genesis albums.

Track listing

  1. Watcher of the Skies7:24
  2. Time Table4:47
  3. Get 'Em Out by Friday8:38
  4. Can-Utility and the Coastliners5:48
  5. Horizons
  6. Supper's Ready22:54

More from Steve Hackett

Spectral Mornings (1979), Bay of Kings (1983)

Sources

  1. Foxtrot (album), Wikipedia
  2. Steve Hackett: Carefully Foxtrotting Onward, Vintage Rock (2023)