This installment of Catalog Crawl covers the creative regrouping that Genesis did at the end of the '70s through a double-live album that captured the last of the Hackett era and two studio albums that found them reworking their sound in a way that prepared them for a level of international success that they probably couldn't even conceive of…

Despite the conflicting agendas and lineup shuffling, the three albums covered here are impressively consistent and artful, showing that the pressure of artistic conflict often produced diamonds in the world of prog rock.

You could argue that the trio of albums presented in this Catalog Crawl represent the classic lineup of Genesis at its most unified and groundbreaking, delivering material that had complexity without sacrificing melody.

This installment of Catalog Crawl looks at their first three albums, which cover a rapid pattern of growth and development… By the final album covered here, they completed their lineup and their development into a style of progressive rock that would sustain them well into the '70s.