New striking strokes

5 June 2023

(Press photo)

PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon, but even
after a series of singles, there’s no exact release date communicated yet.

And this single number 5. ROAD TO JOY made me
immediately think of his 1986 knockout Sledgehammer.

Gabriel: “The song is one of the last tracks to emerge for the i/o record, but it has some
DNA from an earlier project; it was actually very late in the record that we got to this. There
had been a song that musically I’d started, I think, around the OVO project called Pukka. It was very different to this, but it was actually the starting point for coming back to this song. I just felt there was a good groove there, and I wanted something else with rhythm and so we tried a few things when I was working with Brian Eno. The excitement and energy in the song was something that I was getting off on. I felt we didn’t have enough of that for this record.”

Tune in.

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