interesting. Some were speculating this would happen on another forum. I guess his last US tour sold pretty crappy too?

Between this, his approach to the album cycle, and his newsletter (lol), he seems like just another out of touch boomer musician to be honest. How unfortunate.

Say it ain't so, P Gabz.

title track coming tomorrow, features the Soweto Gospel Choir

I've sat with it for a bit and this new song is fairly underwhelming from a compositional standpoint, yet the production and Peter's voice continue to engage.

My least favorite of the four songs so far.

four kinds of horses (bright side mix) was just uploaded

https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/track ... t-side-mix



i think this jumps to the top of the new songs for me. i'm not sure that's saying a lot at this point, but i feel like this is the type of sound and song i've been hoping to hear and seems a natural progression from up. it's definitely the first track of this new batch that i wanted to immediately listen to again, and with headphones on.

I'm on the other end of the spectrum with this one. I was into it when it began, but it just meandered for so long. The biggest shortcoming with this album seems to be Peter's lyrics, which are starting to get a bit dopey. And this song didn't give me much to sink my teeth into beyond the lyrics. Probably my least favorite so far.

Ever listen to a song you've heard a million times and then realize you've never really listened to it before. Big Time came on yesterday and I never noticed how prominent the bass is which is incredible since the song is built around it.

That whole album has a sneaky soul/R&B influence underpinning everything.

first show of the i/o tour is in

Spoiler: show

Washing of the Water (acoustic)
Growing Up (acoustic)
Panopticom
Four Kinds of Horses
i/o
Digging in the Dirt
Playing for Time
Olive Tree
Home
Sledgehammer

Darkness
Love Can Heal
Road to Joy
Don't Give Up
The Court
Red Rain
(Unknown)
What Lies Ahead
Big Time
Live and Let Live
Solsbury Hill

In Your Eyes

Biko

New song Road to Joy is out and it’s great. Big Sledgehammer vibes. Need to give it some more time but it might be my favorite new track so far.

it's nice that there's an genuinely upbeat sounding song on here, i was beginning to wonder. my first thought was this sounds a bit like a far less menacing, happier 'the tower that ate people', and then reading the notes it's said this song had it's genesis in the ovo period so that made sense. also some kiss that frog. so, no real groundbreaking going on here, but enjoyable and fun, something not really heard yet during this lengthy roll-out.

Yeah I can hear Frog in there too. Didn’t realize it was from Ovo, but I suppose any of this stuff could go back a decade plus

in the email blast it had this note:

Kind of discouraging how he says “we didn’t have enough of that…” Are we to assume that one upbeat song filled the quota? I don’t need him to repeat the So/Us period, but I hope there’s a couple more uptempo numbers.

i wonder the same. definitely, 'it was very late in the record that we got to this ... we didn't have enough of that for this record' doesn't seem very promising in that regard. and we've heard at least half the songs now. i've avoided checking out vids of other new tracks in the shows (olive tree, this is home, love can heal, and still, what lies ahead, live and let live), and i'm not sure if all of those will be on the album as a couple of them had been played on earlier tours, so we may be looking at a fairly dour record.

I've not kept up with reviews... I wouldn't say that the last few released from I/O suck, but that in total, this is turning out to be an extremely low energy, mid-tempo album and my interest is waning.

I thought we had a Genesis thread but I can’t find it if so. I’m assuming this is the Genesis catch-all thread? I’m about to make my deep dive journey into them. Haven’t decided if I’m going to include solo albums

i give you permission to post about Genesis in this thread

but ONLY wease