Peter Gabriel has announced he is following up his 2023 album i/o with a companion LP, o/i. “These are my lumpy bits – i/o: the inside has a new way out and o\i: the outside has a new way in,” Gabriel commented. As was the case with i/o, he plans to release one album track with two mixes (Tchad Blake’s Dark-Side Mix and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent’s Bright-Side Mix) on every full moon. Each track will be accompanied by a piece of visual artwork, and the lead single, ‘Been Undone’, is out now alongside Ciclotrama 156 (Palindrome) by the São Paulo–based artist Janaina Mello Landini. Listen to it below.
Patient and spidery, the eight-minute ‘Been Undone’ was the most recent track Gabriel and his longtime bandmates – bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Rhodes, and drummer Manu Katché – made at his Real World Studios. “I’m delighted to say that tonight, at the full moon, we will be beginning another year of full moon releases under the name o\i,” he said. “The songs are a mix of thoughts and feelings. I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.”
