Gabriel completes the i/o project with o\i

The 13-track companion is due 27 November 2026, billed as the longest album in his catalogue, with Face the Wall already shared and pre-orders open.

Peter Gabriel has set 27 November 2026 as the release date for o\i, the 13-track studio album that follows 2023's i/o and completes the project.

The album is billed as the longest in his catalogue. Gabriel is the sole credited artist on the release. Face the Wall has been shared ahead of the release.

The companion to i/o

o\i stands as the other side of the work begun on i/o rather than a fresh departure. The two records belong to the same writing and recording period. Over the months since i/o, individual songs have reached the public as a run of full-moon singles, a deliberate drip that made each track an occasion before any finished sequence was locked.

Face the Wall formed part of that lunar rollout — the tenth song in the sequence — and arrived in twin mixes. Those twin versions sit with the wider Bright-Side and Dark-Side approach that has marked the project as a whole. Pre-orders for the new album are already open.

The full tracklisting has been issued with the announcement. What is fixed is the date, the scale, the claim that it is his longest, and the status of o\i as the record that closes the pair.

After the singles, the full set

For listeners who have followed each full-moon release through 2026, November now supplies the frame. The singles run can be read as the long approach to two complete albums instead of an open series. Once o\i appears, both halves of the project will sit side by side: i/o from three years earlier and its companion, each shaped by the dual-mix design.

Gabriel, the English singer formerly of Genesis, has kept sole credit on this release. That presentation has been consistent across the i/o work — a studio project carried in his name. Calling o\i the longest album in the catalogue places a clear marker against his previous solo sets and against i/o itself: more finished music gathered in one place, at the end of a campaign that preferred patience to surprise.

Three years separate the two albums. Splitting the material across a matched pair makes the scale of the finished work plain: two full-length records from one period of writing, delivered through a singles campaign and now completed by the November release. Completing the project means the songs that circulated as singles can take their places in a settled order.

Nothing has been said about live dates linked to the November release, further singles after the album arrives, or any remaining material from the sessions. The announcement keeps its focus on the record — thirteen tracks, the longest he has issued, due on 27 November to bring the i/o work to a close.

The open question is the running order of the remaining twelve tracks around Face the Wall and how the Bright-Side and Dark-Side versions will finally sit for the listener. The campaign turned the making of the albums into a public sequence; o\i is where that sequence becomes two finished records.