i/o by Peter Gabriel

i/o, Peter Gabriel's tenth studio album, landed on Real World Records on 1 December 2023, his first set of new original songs since Up in 2002. Some of it traces back to work started in April 1995, and the long gestation shows in the best way: nothing here sounds rushed. Gabriel produced with Richard Russell and Brian Eno, working at his own Real World Studios and at British Grove.

The rollout was a generous one. Each of the 12 songs comes in two versions, a Bright-Side Mix and a Dark-Side Mix, and through 2023 he let them out one at a time, a new single on every full moon with the alternate mix following at the new moon. "Road to Joy" is the one the countdowns grabbed, a buoyant, big-hearted groove from a man with nothing left to prove, and critics saved special praise for that voice. It gave him his first UK number one since So in 1986, and in 2025 it won two Grammys, for Best Engineered Album and Best Immersive Audio Album.

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