The lamb lies down on Broadway

"Critical opinion on The Lamb remains divided fifty years on, but this extravagant box does enable a more informed view of the group's and of Gabriel's contradictory directions. And then there were four -".

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"With all its unswerving pretentiousness and ever-shifting focus, it's one of the Great Progressive Albums of its era, equal to Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds and Pink Floyd's troubled Atom Heart Mother".

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"In retrospect, this first LP plays a bit more like the first Gabriel solo album than the final Genesis album, but there's also little question that the band helps form and shape this music (with Brian Eno adding extra coloring on occasion), while Genesis shines as a group shines on the impressionistic second half. In every way, it's a considerable, lasting achievement and it's little wonder that Peter Gabriel had to leave the band after this record: they had gone as far as they could go together, and could never top this extraordinary album".

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"In every way, it's a considerable, lasting achievement and it's little wonder that Peter Gabriel had to leave the band after this record: they had gone as far as they could go together, and could never top this extraordinary album".

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