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O\I

O\I
Studio album by
Peter Gabriel
Released2026 (2026)
RecordedOctober 1989 – December 2025
Studios
LabelReal World
Producers
Peter Gabriel chronology
Live at WOMAD 1982
(2025) 		O\I
(2026)
Singles from O\I
  1. "Been Undone"
    Released: 3 January 2026[1]
  2. "Put the Bucket Down"
    Released: 1 February 2026[2]
  3. "What Lies Ahead"
    Released: 3 March 2026
  4. "Till Your Mind Is Shining"
    Released: 2 April 2026
  5. "Won't Stand Down"
    Released: 1 May 2026
  6. "A Hard Lesson"
    Released: 31 May 2026[3]
  7. "I Belong to the Sky"
    Released: 30 June 2026
  8. "One by One"
    Released: 29 July 2026

O\I (stylised as o\i) is the upcoming eleventh studio album[a] by English musician Peter Gabriel, expected to be released by the end of 2026.[1] Like its predecessor I/O (2023), each song on the album will receive both "Bright-Side" and "Dark-Side" mixes and will be released to correlate with each month's full moon and new moon, respectively.[4] The "Bright-Side" mixes were created by Mark "Spike" Stent, while the "Dark-Side" mixes were handled by Tchad Blake.[5] The album will be available in its entirety once all tracks have been released individually throughout the year.[1]

In addition to new material recorded during 2024 and 2025, O\I collects previously unreleased tracks or outtakes from the sessions of Gabriel's previous three albums Us (1992), Up (2002) and I/O. The oldest song on the album is "A Hard Lesson", which dates back to the sessions of Us between 1989 and 1992.[3]

Background

In an interview published in March 2023 with Uncut magazine, Gabriel mentioned that he had a surplus of material from his I/O album, which at the time was still being rolled out with song releases coinciding with the full moon. He expressed interest in continuing this practice beyond the final release date of I/O using his existing batch of 20 songs. Gabriel cited two of his songs that were used on film soundtracks as possible contenders for a follow-up album to I/O, specifically "The Veil" from Snowden and "Why Don't You Show Yourself" from Words with Gods.[6]

In November 2023, Gabriel said that his song "What Lies Ahead" would also appear on the follow-up to I/O.[7] Gabriel had performed "What Lies Ahead" on a few occasions for his I/O The Tour in 2023.[8] One day prior to I/O's release, Gabriel told The New York Times that he did not expect a follow-up album (which he described as his "brain project") to take another 21 years, saying that "there's a lot of stuff in the can" but added that the material was not yet finished.[9]

Gabriel announced the album title O\I in a February 2025 article published in Mojo.[10] On 3 January 2026, "Been Undone" was released as the album's first single, corresponding with the wolf moon.[5] He mentioned that some songs on the album would be part of a brain project, which he had been "exploring for a number of years."[5] One of those songs was the album's second single, "Put the Bucket Down", which was released on 1 February 2026.[2] Gabriel plans to release more songs from the album on days that correlate to the full moon.[1] "One by One" is also part of the brain project and references a fictional character created by Gabriel named Mozo, whose narrative had been interspersed across several songs spanning from his 1977 self-titled debut album to So (1986).[11][12] Gabriel said that "One by One" was among the "two or three story songs on the record".[11]

Like I/O, the each track on the album has received a Bright-Side and Dark-Side mix created by Mark "Spike" Stent and Tchad Blake, respectively.[13] Discussing the nature of the different mixes, Gabriel commented that "people always think that the emotion all comes from the song, but actually you can change that enormously by the way you move things, dip them and bring them out, and isolate certain sounds and instruments – by the way you tell the story. It"s very much a creative contribution with these wonderful mixers."[14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Peter Gabriel.[15]

O/I current track listing, as each single is being released in order. Lenghts of mixes as per order of first release according to the lunar phases
No.Titlecomplementary lengthLength
1."Been Undone"6:48 (Bright-Side Mix)7:40 (Dark-Side Mix)
2."Put the Bucket Down"6:56 (Dark-Side Mix)6:56 Bright-Side Mix)
3."What Lies Ahead"2:54 (Dark-Side Mix)2:52 (Bright-Side Mix)
4."Till Your Mind Is Shining"5:07 (Bright-Side Mix)5:09 (Dark-Side Mix)
5."Won't Stand Down" 6:07
6."A Hard Lesson"6:42 (Dark-Side Mix)6:42 (Bright-Side Mix)
7."I Belong to the Sky"7:22 (Dark-Side Mix)7:23 (Bright-Side Mix)
8."One by One"9:29 (Dark-Side Mix)9:37 (Bright-Side Mix)

Notes

  1. ^ Ninth album of original material excluding covers/re-recordings albums, soundtracks or other commissioned work

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jones, Damian (2 January 2026). "Peter Gabriel Announces New Album 'O\I' and Looks to the Future on New Single 'Been Undone'". NME. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  2. ^ a b Bonner, Michael (1 February 2026). "Listen to Peter Gabriel's New Track, "Put the Bucket Down"". Uncut. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  3. ^ a b Rapp, Alison (31 May 2026). "Hear Peter Gabriel's New Song 'A Hard Lesson'". ultimateclassicrock.com. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
  4. ^ Monroe, Jazz (2 January 2026). "Peter Gabriel Lines Up a New Year of Lunar Releases with O\I". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  5. ^ a b c Greene, Andy (2 January 2026). "Peter Gabriel to Slowly Release New LP 'O\I' Around the Full Moon Schedule of 2026". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  6. ^ Bonner, Michael (10 March 2023). ""I may just keep going..." Peter Gabriel interviewed". Uncut. Archived from the original on 9 July 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  7. ^ Full Moon Update November 2023. Peter Gabriel. 27 November 2023. Event occurs at 9:10-9:16. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  8. ^ Marziano, Alfredo; Perasi, Luca (2024). Peter Gabriel: The Rhythm Has My Soul. Milan, Italy: L.I.L.Y Publishing. pp. 266–267. ISBN 978-88-909122-5-2.
  9. ^ Pareles, Jon (30 November 2023). "Older and Wiser, Peter Gabriel Is Still Looking Ahead". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Peter Gabriel New Album Exclusive: 'It will be called O/I'". Mojo. 17 February 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  11. ^ a b Ewing, Jerry (29 July 2026). ""He's back from the dead!" Peter Gabriel's grandiose new nine-minute single One By One reintroduces his Mozo character to o\i". Louder. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
  12. ^ Bright, Spencer (1999). Peter Gabriel: An Authorized Biography (2nd ed.). London, UK: Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 162. ISBN 0-283-06187-1.
  13. ^ Lapatine, Scott (3 January 2026). "Peter Gabriel Announces New Album 'o\i': Hear "Been Undone"". Stereogum. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  14. ^ Kielty, Martin (2 May 2026). "Peter Gabriel launches new o/i single Won't Stand Down". Louder. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  15. ^ "Genesis News: Peter Gabriel - i/o album release announcement". Genesis-news.com. 18 October 2023.

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