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Amazing Artwork – Cover Of The New Album And The Last Single From PETER GABRIEL

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28 November 2023


Album artwork

PETER GABRIEL‘s 10th solo LP (in 46 years),
named i/o is out this Friday, December 1st.

Press statement: “12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful – often thought-provoking – songs tackle life and the universe.”


Single artwork

Since the beginning of the year, Gabriel dropped one new
song a month. Here’s the last one LIVE AND LET LIVE.


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PETER GABRIEL Shares Another Single – Hear The Funktastic ‘ROAD TO JOY’ Here

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New striking strokes

5 June 2023


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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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Soulful Sunday With PETER GABRIEL And Another Affecting Track From His Upcoming Album

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

7 May 2023


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PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon
(even after 5 singles, there’s no exact release date yet) following
Scratch My Back from 2013.


Artwork single

New single: FOUR KINDS OF HORSES

Gabriel: “Four Kinds of Horses” actually began on Richard Russell’s project Everything Is Recorded. He’s a friend (and founder of XL Records), and he asked me to pop into his studio.
I came up with some chords, melodies, and words on top of a groove he was working on. We tried a few things that didn’t altogether work, and so it laid dormant for quite a while. Then I started playing around with it again and changed the mood and the groove, and something else began to emerge with a better chorus.”

This almost 7-minute composition about the intersection of religion and violence,
is a mid-tempo mood-swinging musing with soothing synths, firm bass play, and
an intense, vocal chorus.

Listen here.

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PETER GABRIEL Shares The Title Track Of Upcoming ‘i/o’ Album – It Features The SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR

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New striking strokes

6 April 2023


(Press photo)

PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon
(even after 4 singles, there’s no exact release date yet) following
Scratch My Back from 2013.

Today Gabriel shared the album’s title track. It features the Soweto Gospel Choir
who were recorded at High Seas Studios in South Africa.

‘i/o’ stands for input/output. You see it on the back of a lot of electrical equipment.

Gabriel: “The older I get, I probably don’t get any smarter, but I have learned a few things
and it makes a lot of sense to me that we are not these independent islands that we like to think
we are, that we are part of a whole. If we can see ourselves as better connected, still messed up individuals, but as part of a whole, then maybe there’s something to learn?”

Listen.

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