Peter Gabriel shares new track "The Court"

Last month Gabriel released "Panopticom", a track that will appear on his first album of all new material in over 20 years, i/o. The track coincided with January's full moon, and yesterday (5 February) a second track landed to coincide with the second full moon of 2023, titled "The Court".

Speaking about the new song, which features contributions from Tony Levin, David Rhodes, Manu Katché and Melanie Gabriel, Gabriel says, "I had this idea for 'the court will rise' chorus, so it became a free-form, impressionistic lyric that connected to justice, but there’s a sense of urgency there. A lot of life is a struggle between order and chaos and in some senses the justice or legal system is something that we impose to try and bring some element of order to the chaos. That’s often abused, it’s often unfair and discriminatory but at the same time it’s probably an essential part of a civilised society. But we do need to think sometimes about how that is actually realised and employed."

i/o will be Gabriel's first album of all new music since 2002's Up. Between Up and now, Gabriel did release the cover album Scratch My Back in 2010, and an album of orchestral reworks titled New Blood in 2011.