Genesis: From Genesis To Revelation (2LP, with 4 bonus tracks) [ESOTERIC]

Why you'll love it

Stephen W. Tayler's new mix of the 1969 debut, approved by Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford, in a gatefold sleeve. A bonus 12" EP at 45 RPM adds new mixes of "A Winter's Tale," "One Eyed Hound" and "Image Blown Out" and the previously unheard "Visions of Angels."

This edition

• New mix by Stephen W. Tayler
• LP plus a bonus 12" EP at 45 RPM
• Four bonus tracks, including the previously unheard "Visions of Angels"
• Gatefold sleeve

About the album

Before the capes and the 20-minute suites, Genesis were five Charterhouse schoolboys with a demo tape. It found its way to Jonathan King, an old boy of the school with a hit single under his belt, who named the band, got them a deal with Decca and booked them into Regent Sound in London. From Genesis to Revelation arrived in March 1969: a song cycle of baroque pop, with strings added after the fact, sung by a teenage Peter Gabriel.

It sold very few copies at the time, and King held on to the rights for decades, so it was reissued in all sorts of shapes. This edition finally gives it the treatment the later albums got: fresh mono, stereo and surround mixes from the original tapes, with the band's blessing. "The Silent Sun," "In the Wilderness" and "In Hiding" already show Banks' ear for melody and Gabriel's gift for drama. Everyone has to start somewhere; most of us don't get remixed for it.

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Out October 9, 2026 on Esoteric Recordings (cat# ECLECLP22953), a reissue of the 1969 album.