Editing Invisible Touch (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/invisible-touch-mw0000190104 |title=Invisible Touch – Genesis |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]] |access-date=27 June 2011 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/54722/invisible-touch.html |title=Genesis: Invisible Touch |journal=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |date=18 September 2007 |access-date=14 August 2019 |last=Pareles |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Pareles |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418181336/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/54722/invisible-touch.html |archive-date=18 April 2009 }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Kerrang" >{{cite book | last1 = Putterford | first1 = Mark | title = Kerrang! | chapter = Genesis 'Invisible Touch' | volume = 123 | publisher = United Magazines ltd. | date = 26 June 1986 | location = London, UK | pages = 14–15 | title-link = Kerrang! }}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Genesis |last=Considine |first=J. D. |author-link=J. D. Considine |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA327 |access-date=27 June 2011 |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/327 327–328] }}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev5score = C+<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv8-86.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=5 August 1986 |access-date=14 August 2019 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
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The album received a mixed reaction from music critics upon release. [[J. D. Considine]] gave it a positive review for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', stating that "every tune is carefully pruned so that each flourish delivers not an instrumental epiphany but a solid hook. Much of the credit for this belongs to Tony Banks, whose synth style has never seemed more appropriate; it's his keyboards that set the mood for 'In the Glow of the Night' and maintain the tension in 'Tonight, Tonight, Tonight'."<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/218476/review/5945410/invisible_touch |last=Considine |first=J. D. |author-link=J. D. Considine |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |title=Genesis: Invisible Touch : Music Reviews |date=14 August 1986 |access-date=8 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201202127/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/218476/review/5945410/invisible_touch |archive-date=1 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Daniel Brogan of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' was not as impressed, saying the album had "none of the inventiveness, illumination or power" of former Genesis singer [[Peter Gabriel]]'s album ''[[So (album)|So]]'', released the prior month. He thought the contributions from Rutherford and Banks "seem far less apparent than usual", and that the first side of the album "could almost pass as outtakes from ''No Jacket Required''". He concluded: "Will the [[Free World]] ever tire of Phil Collins?"<ref name="Chicago Tribune">{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/06/27/genesis-invisible-touch-low-on-inventiveness-power/|last=Brogan|first=Daniel|work=chicagotribune.com|publisher=[[Chicago Tribune]]|title=Genesis' 'Invisible Touch' Low on Inventiveness, Power|date=27 June 1986|access-date=22 February 2012}}</ref> Several of Brogan's criticisms were mirrored in a review from Steve Hochman of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Hochman asked "Was this record really necessary?" and stated the album "could easily pass as a Collins album. His thin voice and familiar MOR&B songwriting dominate, with only occasional evidence of input from Rutherford and Banks". He also suggested the record "was made to provide material for the next season of ''[[Miami Vice]]''".<ref name="Los Angeles Times" >{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-29-ca-48-story.html|last=Hochman|first=Steve|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|title=Summer Album Roundup : Gtr And Genesis Lack The Touch|date=29 June 1986|access-date=18 September 2011}}</ref> [[Associated Press]] writer Larry Kilman disagreed, who opened his review with "Genesis have come up with an irresistible ''Invisible Touch'' ... This is far from a Collins solo effort. The band's material is more complex than Collins' pop sound". He complimented the album's "great variety", picking out "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" as a highlight which reminded him of "the spare, art-rock sound of the early Genesis".<ref name=associatedpress>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6626706/invisible_touch_1986/|title=Genesis records|date=31 August 1986|first=Larry|last=Kilman|newspaper=The Paris News|location=Paris, Texas|page=18|access-date=31 January 2017}}</ref>

In a retrospective review from [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] for [[AllMusic]], the album received three stars out of five. He commented that "''Invisible Touch'' was seen at the time as a bit of a Phil Collins solo album disguised as a Genesis album ... Genesis' poppiest album, a sleek, streamlined affair built on electronic percussion and dressed in synths" and he said "the heavy emphasis on pop tunes does serve the singer, not the band". He said that "[the] songs had big hooks that excused their coldness, and the arty moments sank to the bottom".<ref name="AllMusic" /> Mark Putterford of ''[[Kerrang!]]'' remarked on how the album showed "new ideas, new sounds, but still very definitely Genesis".<ref name="Kerrang" /> ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' describes ''Invisible Touch'' as "calculated and oddly emotionless [[Album-oriented rock|AOR]]" and stated the hits were "by now barely distinguishable from Collins' songs as a solo artist".<ref name="Buckley">{{cite book|editor=Peter Buckley|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|year=2003|publisher=Rough Guides Ltd|isbn=978-1843531050|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetorock0003unse}}</ref> In 2014, Stevie Chick, writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', said the album's "bright, polished pop title track, the baby boomer agit-rock of 'Land of Confusion', the genuinely affecting ballad 'Throwing It All Away' – could have easily fitted on his [Collins's] solo albums". Chick reserved particular praise for "Domino", saying the track "proved a final gasp of brilliance before the blandness of 1991's ''[[We Can't Dance]]'' and 1997's inexplicable, Collins-less ''[[Calling All Stations]]''".<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/sep/03/genesis-10-of-the-best | title= Genesis: 10 of the best | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Stevie | last=Chick | date=3 September 2014 | access-date=6 September 2014}}</ref>

''[[Ultimate Classic Rock]]'' ranked ''Invisible Touch'' as the 13th best album by Genesis, stating "On the dark day in Genesis history when this record was released, the band fully transitioned from art-rock glory to radio-ready piffle, replete with all the worst that '80s overproduction had to offer. The fact that just the tiniest bit of the 'old' Genesis is discernible in a couple of tracks is the only thing that edges this album a notch ahead of ''We Can't Dance''."<ref>{{cite web | url= https://ultimateclassicrock.com/genesis-albums-ranked/ | title= Genesis Albums Ranked Worst to Best | work=Ultimate Classic Rock | first=Jim | last=Allen | date=4 January 2017 | access-date=26 May 2019}}</ref>