Peter Gabriel - i/o (Dark-Side Mixes) (2023) [Full Album] Vinyl Rip

I/O (stylised as i/o) is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician Peter Gabriel, released on 1 December 2023 through Real World Records. It is Gabriel's first album of new original material since Up (2002), marking the longest gap between studio albums in his career. I/O features 12 tracks, each with two different mixes labeled the "Bright-Side Mix" and "Dark-Side Mix". It is also Gabriel's longest studio album of original material, with the mixes clocking in at over 68 minutes each and the total project lasting over two hours. An additional "In-Side Mix" of the album (in surround sound/Dolby Atmos) appears on versions which include the Blu-ray audio disc.

I/O had been in the works for nearly three decades (27 years and eight months), with its initial production dating back to April 1995, at around the same time Gabriel began recording Up. He began planning the follow-up to Up as early as 2000 and had originally intended to release it in 2004, but the album was repeatedly delayed, reworked and re-recorded at seven recording studios (and one arena during soundchecks while on tour with Sting in 2016) before its completion in December 2022. This was due to Gabriel focusing on other projects such as his two orchestral albums Scratch My Back (2010) and New Blood (2011), which contained covers of songs by other artists and rearrangements of his older material, respectively.

Beginning in January 2023, Gabriel released a new single every full moon, with its alternative mix released on the following new moon, culminating in the album's release at the end of the year; this replicates the 2010 double-sided single releases in promotion of And I'll Scratch Yours (2013). He has stated that he will release more songs in this format following the album's release. I/O received positive reviews from music critics, with praise being particularly directed towards Gabriel's vocals and songwriting. The album was also Gabriel's first to top the UK Albums Chart since So in 1986. I/O won two 2025 Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) and Best Immersive Audio Album.

In 2025, Gabriel revealed he was working on the follow-up to I/O titled O/I.

Tracklist:
side one:
Panopticom 0:00
Playing for Time 5:18
The Court 11:37

side two:
Four Kinds of Horses 16:02
i/o 22:50
Love Can Heal 26:48

side three:
Road to Joy 32:52
So Much 38:18
Olive Tree 43:10

side four:
This Is Home 49:10
And Still 54:16
Live and Let Live 1:01:58

Principal musicians
Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, backing vocals, treated vocals (on "And Still") keyboards, synths, piano (on "The Court", "So Much", "Olive Tree", "Love Can Heal", "And Still" and "Live and Let Live"), programming (on "Panopticom", "The Court", "I/O", "Road to Joy", "Olive Tree", "This Is Home", "And Still" and "Live and Let Live"), percussion (on "Four Kinds of Horses", "Love Can Heal", and "Live and Let Live"), manipulated charango (on "Road to Joy"), glass harp (on "And Still")
David Rhodes – guitars (except on "Playing for Time"), acoustic guitar (on "Olive Tree"), acoustic 12 string guitar (on "So Much" and "Olive Tree"), backing vocals
Tony Levin – basses
Manu Katché – drums (except on "Four Kinds of Horses", "So Much","Love Can Heal" and "And Still")
Ged Lynch – percussion (on "Olive Tree", "Love Can Heal", and "And Still")
Tom Cawley – piano (on "Playing for Time")
Evan Smith – saxophone (on "Olive Tree")
Josh Shpak – trumpet (on "Road to Joy" and "Olive Tree")
Melanie Gabriel – backing vocals (on "The Court", "Four Kinds of Horses", "So Much", "Love Can Heal" and "Live and Let Live)
Ríoghnach Connolly – backing vocals (on "Panopticom", "Love Can Heal" and "This Is Home")
Jennie Abrahamson – backing vocals (on "Love Can Heal")
Linnea Olsson – cello (on "Love Can Heal"), backing vocals (on "Love Can Heal")
Angie Pollock – synths (on "Love Can Heal")
Brian Eno – synths (on "Panopticom", "The Court", "This Is Home" and "Live and Let Live"), bells (on "Panopticom"), percussion (on "The Court"), rhythm programming and progressing (on "Four Kinds of Horses" and "Road to Joy"), electric worms and additional synths (on "Four Kinds of Horses"), manipulated guitar and ukulele (on "Road to Joy"), rhythm programming (on "Live and Let Live")
Oli Jacobs – synths (on "Panopticom", "Playing for Time", "I/O" and "This Is Home"), programming (on "Panopticom", "The Court", "I/O", "This Is Home" and "Live and Let Live"), piano (on "Four Kinds of Horses"), tambourine (on "This is Home")
Don-E – bass synth (on "Road to Joy")
Katie May – acoustic guitar (on "Panopticom" and "I/O"), percussion (on "The Court", "This Is Home" and "Live and Let Live"), Rickenbacker guitar (on "I/O"), synths (on "I/O"), rhythm programming (on "Four Kinds of Horses"), guitar effects (on "Love Can Heal")
Richard Evans – D whistle (on "I/O"), mandolin (on "Olive Tree")
Richard Chappell – programming (on "Panopticom", "The Court", "I/O", "Olive Tree", "And Still" and "Live and Let Live")
Richard Russell – filtered percussion (on "Four Kinds of Horses")
Hans-Martin Buff – additional percussion and synths (on "Road to Joy")
Ron Aslan – additional synths (on "Road to Joy")
Oli Middleton – percussion (on "This Is Home")
Paolo Fresu – trumpet (on "Live and Let Live")
Steve Gadd – brush loop (on "Live and Let Live")