It’s difficult to separate Genesis’ two quartet albums: A Trick Of The Tail and Wind & Wuthering were both recorded and released in 1976 (a pretty astonishing feat in itself), and they veer down the same sonic path: sweeping, fusion-tinged prog-rock driven by Banks’ lush keyboards and Collins’ A-bomb drumming. A Trick Of The Tail was Collins’ debut as lead vocalist, following Gabriel’s heavily publicized 1975 departure. But the drummer makes an effortless transition into the gig, whether he’s personifying a deadly volcano (“Dance On A Volcano”) or crooning gently about fading beauty (“Ripples”). Ironically, by losing Gabriel — often inaccurately portrayed in the press as the band’s driving creative force — Genesis emerged with renewed confidence. Even Hackett, the group’s most politely democratic member (who would exit the band the following year after creative disputes) found more space to exert his songwriting influence on the spidery hypnotist tale “Entangled.”