Peter Gabriel's farewell to Genesis plays like a fever dream scrawled on subway walls, 23 tracks chronicling Puerto Rican street kid Rael's hallucinogenic odyssey through identity and myth. Gabriel seized total lyrical control, fracturing the band's collaborative spirit while pushing their theatrical ambitions to breaking point.

The Carpet Crawlers and In the Cage balance prog's grandiosity with genuine emotional weight, though the narrative's opacity frustrated critics in 1974. Time has been kinder: this double album now stands as progressive rock's most audaciously unhinged concept statement, all costume changes and Freudian symbolism.