"And Then There Were Three" ... is an album that the most purists of Genesis tend to despise for distancing themselves in a way from the progressivism of yesteryear but at the same time little valued by fans of the commercial era for labeling it as progressive ... and This is how we could really say that it is in no man's land. When Peter Gabriel left the band in 1975, many at the time predicted the end of the group as few or almost no one trusted Phil Collins as the group's new frontman and soon realized they were wrong. The same was true when Steve Hackett took his own course in 1976, his work within the group was somewhat supplanted by bassist Mike Rutherford perhaps not as good on this instrument as Hackett, but more than complying, the result was an album. of beauty only possible due to the capacity of the remaining members, undoubtedly virtuous musicians. And it is that curiously and ironically the title of the album "And then there were only three" made clear the intentions of Collins, Banks and Rutherford to continue with the group despite the loss of their two best pillars. "And Then There Were Three" alternates moments inherited from the previous era, with more importance of the instrumental factor and a more complex structure (especially "Down and Out" or the dense "Burning Rope", along with themes of simpler structure such as "Many too Many "or especially" Follow You, Follow Me ", one of his great hits and first symptoms of the subsequent commerciality (after the expectations of" I Know What I Like "in 1973 and later" Your Own Special Way "in 1976 Themes such as the dynamic and complex "Down and Out", the deeply melancholic "Undertown", the progressive "Burning Rope", the rhythmic and at times atmospheric "Deep in the Motherlode", the beautiful and melancholic "Many too Many", or the ambitious "The Lady Lies" leave us a really excellent album made against all odds and with some of the criticism and old fans against it ... without a doubt a jewel undervalued.
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