O\I

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O\I
Studio album by
Peter Gabriel
Released2026 (2026)
RecordedApril 1995 – November 2025
Studio
Label Real World
Producer Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel chronology
I/O
(2023)		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]

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. [3] The "Bright-Side" mixes are created by Mark "Spike" Stent, while the "Dark-Side" mixes are created by Tchad Blake. [4]

Contents

Mostly recorded at around the same as I/O and its predecessor Up (with its initial production dating back to 1995), the full album will be available once all tracks have been released individually throughout the year. [1]

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 . [5]

In November 2023, Gabriel said that his song "What Lies Ahead" would also appear on the follow-up to I/O. [6] Gabriel had performed "What Lies Ahead" on a few occasions for his I/O The Tour in 2023. [7] 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. [8]

Gabriel announced the album title O\I in a February 2025 article published in Mojo . [9] On 3 January 2026, "Been Undone" was released as the album's first single, corresponding with the wolf moon. [4] The album's second single, "Put the Bucket Down", 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]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ninth album of original material excluding soundtracks or other commissioned work

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 Bonner, Michael (1 February 2026). "Listen to Peter Gabriel's New Track, "Put the Bucket Down"". Uncut. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  3. ↑ Monroe, Jazz (2 January 2026). "Peter Gabriel Lines Up a New Year of Lunar Releases with O\I". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Full Moon Update November 2023. Peter Gabriel. 27 November 2023. Event occurs at 9:10-9:16. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Pareles, Jon (30 November 2023). "Older and Wiser, Peter Gabriel Is Still Looking Ahead". The New York Times . Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "Peter Gabriel New Album Exclusive: 'It will be called O/I'". Mojo . 17 February 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
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