I/O

Having read some of the 2star reviews, I had to give my own opinion regarding the last (really probably the last album) album from Peter Gabriel. I'm a big Gabriel fan. Always have been, since the time I listened Solsbury Hill when I was eleven and my father was driving us our of the city, Gabriel has been in my mind. By then I didn't even know who he was, I just loved the music. i/o is a return to the more festive side of his music, back to sounds that echo his most popular and probably important album, So. It's no wonder that here at ProgArchives, that particular album has such bad reviews, it's full of Classic Prog Canon fans that cannot forgive musicians shift and evolve (think of last SW album). This short seeing way is what sometimes makes me question the genre itself and my own past as a strict and hermetic listener. Peter Gabriel has just delivered a testament for the future, probably a last effort in making music. The sound despite the fact of having notable links with older music from him, seems actually tremendously actual, the lyrics are probably at his peak, Gabriel has really a lot to say! I'm just grateful for the chance of hearing new material, that is not repetitive like much of the music nowadays DreamTheater, TFK, Neal Morse and others are making, engaging in formulas that make more of the same. I do not see this here. My only doubt is the fact of needing two mixes, I think one was enough and the second could be understood as a plus for people wanting to invest in it. While hearing it I couldn't but help to think that this is a goodbye, a farewell. I enjoyed it from the very beginning to the last song.