Peter Gabriel recently shared a new single, “Till Your Mind Is Shining.”

“Till Your Mind Is Shining” is the fourth track to be released from Gabriel’s forthcoming album o\i.

“To my ears, it’s the closest I get to a pop song on this record,” says Gabriel. Written and produced by Gabriel, the Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake is the first version to be released.

“The song began around a chord sequence which I liked and which felt quite poppy and playful, so I just kept on playing around with it till I had something. Of all the songs that I’ve written for i/o and o\i this is probably the poppiest for me,” Gabriel says. “It takes me back to my schooldays, in some ways, because before there was Genesis we were effectively trying to be songwriters more than musicians – pop songs or soul / R&B songs. I think this song connects me back to some of those roots and the sort of thing that I was working on then and trying to master.”

He continues, “Some elements of this are a few years old, I mean pretty much most things I work on take a while to mature. I leave songs for a while and go and do something else and when I come back to them and they smell alive, I will want to complete them. I really enjoyed singing this one, particularly the end, and I think the band had a good time playing it too. You can hear some wonderful performances from all the band. It was really a fun thing to create.

i/o was Gabriel’s last album, released in 2023 song by song with each full moon cycle. o\i is being released the same way.

Source: RTT Music News