Gabriel locks every track on the other side of i/o

The companion album arrives on 27 November 2026 in Bright-Side and Dark-Side mixes across a four-CD set and a double LP, with pre-orders already open.

Peter Gabriel published full details of his new studio album o\i on 1 October, setting a release date of 27 November 2026 and listing all 13 tracks in running order. The record is the companion piece to 2023’s i/o and completes a 25-song joint project spread across the two albums.

The announcement fills in the sequence that a year of full-moon singles had left unfinished. Each song will appear in a Bright-Side Mix, mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and a Dark-Side Mix, mixed by Tchad Blake, with one track mixed by Mike Elizondo, alongside a Dolby Atmos version. Physical formats comprise a four-CD edition and a double LP.

The finished tracklist

The songs are: Been Undone; Put the Bucket Down; What Lies Ahead; Till Your Mind Is Shining; Won’t Stand Down; Who Are We Talking To?; Yes, It Will Go; One by One; A Hard Lesson; Face the Wall; I Belong to the Sky; Looking for the Happy; and Sacrament.

Several of those titles are already known to anyone who has followed the lunar singles run through 2026. Face the Wall and Looking for the Happy both reached listeners earlier in Bright-Side and Dark-Side form as that campaign moved toward the close of the year, with each full moon bringing a new release. They now take their places inside a fixed order, joined by songs held back until the album was ready to be announced in full. Where the familiar pieces sit, and how the unheard ones open and close the set, is what the 1 October details finally settle.

Two halves of one project

o\i is framed as the other half of i/o, not a separate sequel. Together the two records hold 25 songs, issued three years apart and linked by the same twin-mix method. The Bright-Side and Dark-Side treatments give every piece two stereo productions rather than one, a choice carried from the 2023 album into the new one so that listeners can move between contrasting versions of the same songs.

The sessions bring in longtime collaborators. David Rhodes, Tony Levin and Manu Katché are among the musicians; Brian Eno is involved; and Gabriel’s daughter Melanie appears on vocals. That continuity of names keeps the new album in touch with the group sound around the i/o work, even as the tracklist points to material not all of which has been heard before.

What arrives in November

The four-CD set and the double LP are built for the dual mixes, so they can sit together on the shelf. The Atmos versions offer an immersive option. With pre-orders under way, the choice of format is now open ahead of the 27 November release date.

What is still to come is the first full play of the 13-song arc in both mixes, and the chance to set o\i beside i/o as the completed 25-song project. The singles answered the song-by-song calendar; the album announcement answers the shape of the whole. For Gabriel — the English singer, formerly of Genesis — the map is public. The records follow at the end of November.