Peter Gabriel launches new album project o\I with first full moon single

The track is will open the forthcoming album o\i, which Gabriel plans to reveal piece by piece throughout the coming year, on each full moon – with the complete album assembled by December.

The song is 'the Dark-Side Mix' and produced by Tchad Blake at Real World Studios in Bath and The Beehive in London. A companion Bright-Side Mix by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, is will drop on the January new moon. The alternating mix strategy mirrors the approach Gabriel used for his previous album, *i/o*.

Gabriel calls o\i a thematic counterpart to his last work: “i/o the inside has a new way out and o\i: the outside has a new way in,” he explains.The new songs grapple with a “period of transition” driven by technological advances, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Gabriel describes the artist’s role as looking ahead “to hold up a mirror.

Alongside the music, the legendary musician and former member of Genesis is continuing his practice of pairing each song with a commissioned artwork. The visual for “Been Undone” is Ciclotrama 156 (Palindrome) by São Paulo-based artist Janaina Mello Landini, whose work features intricate, branching sculptures made from unravelled rope, exploring connections between individual parts and a larger whole. Gabriel notes the fractal patterns reminded him of brain structures, offering “a lot of entry points” to the song’s themes.