Gabriel locks November for his longest album yet

Pre-orders are open for the 13-track set that pairs with 2023’s i/o, wrapping a full-moon singles run that has stretched right through this year.

Peter Gabriel has set 27 November 2026 as the release date for o/i, his eleventh studio album, on Real World Records. The confirmation ends weeks of waiting: as the monthly full-moon singles arrived through the autumn, the finished album still lacked a firm date, which is now set.

The 13-track record completes a 25-track joint project with i/o, the album he issued in 2023. Songs drawn from the new set were released monthly throughout 2026 on full-moon dates, each offered in Bright-Side and Dark-Side mixes. The final single, ‘Face the Wall’, appeared on 26 September 2026, closing the lunar rollout just as the album date was settled. Gabriel has described o/i as “the longest album I have ever put out”.

Sessions old and new

Fresh work from sessions in 2024 and 2025 sits alongside outtakes from earlier projects, among them Us, Up and i/o itself. The result is less a sequel in the ordinary sense than a second half of a single extended statement — two albums designed to be heard as one body of 25 songs.

Core collaborators are the familiar circle: guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché. Additional contributions come from Brian Eno, Melanie Gabriel and others who have passed through Gabriel’s orbit over decades. The dual-mix approach — Bright-Side and Dark-Side versions of each track — continues the method established on i/o, giving listeners two finished perspectives rather than a single definitive cut.

A long solo arc

After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel opened his solo career with “Solsbury Hill” and built a catalogue that has always moved at its own pace. So, released in 1986, remains his best-selling album, certified triple platinum in the UK, and its lead single “Sledgehammer” became one of the defining video-era hits of the decade. The gaps between major studio statements have grown over time; i/o arrived in 2023 after years of incremental work, and o/i now appears not as a separate chapter but as the companion that makes the earlier record complete.

That patience is part of the craft readers already know. Gabriel has never rushed a sequence of songs into the shops for the sake of a cycle. The full-moon release schedule of 2026 — one new track, two mixes, month after month — turned the wait into a public process, and the November date marks the point at which that process becomes a finished object.

What arrives in November

Pre-orders are already open. Physical formats include separate 2LP editions for the Bright-Side and Dark-Side mixes, a 4CD set and a digital Dolby Atmos mix. The thematic ground, as Gabriel has framed it, is the work of finding one’s place in life — a subject that sits naturally at this stage of a career that began in progressive rock, moved through pop-scale success, and has long since settled into its own independent lane on Real World Records.

Nothing further has been announced beyond the 27 November release date and the formats already listed. The lunar singles run is finished; the album that gathers them, and the songs held back for the full set, is now on the calendar. For listeners who have followed every Bright-Side and Dark-Side drop since the start of the year, November is the moment the two halves of the project finally sit side by side.