Peter Gabriel - i/o [VINYL]

Tracklist:
Bright-Side Mix & Dark-Side Mix Side A 1 Panopticom 2 Playing For Time 3 The Court Side B 4 Four Kinds of Horses 5 i/o 6 Love Can Heal Side C 7 Road to Joy 8 So Much 9 Olive Tree Side D 10 This Is Home 11 And Still 12 Live and Let Live

Foil blocked clamshell box. 4LPs in bespoke covers, casebound book with expanded liner notes and 2CDs and Blu-ray inside back cover, printed element, obi-band and download card. More than 20 years in the making, this December finally sees the release of i/o, Peter Gabriel’s first album of new material since 2002’s Up. During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find its own time and space, to enjoy its own orbit. “It’s a little like getting a Lego piece each month,” Peter explains. Now it’s time to stand back and admire the final, completed creation. Always looking to push the boundaries, i/o is not simply a collection of a dozen songs. All 12 tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mix, handled by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, and the Dark-Side Mix, as reshaped by Tchad Blake. “We have two of the greatest mixers in the world in Tchad and Spike and they definitely bring different characters to the songs. Tchad is very much a sculptor building a journey with sound and drama, Spike loves sound and assembling these pictures, so he’s more of a painter.”