It is only natural that he would start to muse about life, birth, death, about everything out of our limited capability of experiencing the world, about primal fears, our place in life and our need to find our own way. What is it about? Peter Gabriel has begun to turn grey, he has just become a father again. There are a couple of uptempo songs, while other songs turn out to be more uplifting than their first few bars made them appear. The album title UP proves to be more fitting than you would have thought at first. It is Peter Gabriel's special achievement to have even those quiet, melancholy songs on an up-beat note.
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UP is certainly introspective, but it is also full of energy. Where there is shadow, however, there is light, just in to chiaroscuro school of painting that lives off the contrasts between light and darkness. What does this world look like? Some would say it was dark and brooding.
The journey leaves us out of breath and slightly dizzy.
From this world we are released only after the breathtaking crescendo that is Signal To Noise and its afterthought The Drop. UP, again, immerses us in a whole new world. PG4 was such an album, so were SO and US. With UP, Peter Gabriel will be giving us a masterpiece.ĭo you know this feeling: A new album is released with many different songs on it, yet still those songs taken together form a unity, a universe of their own. When Peter Gabriel withdrew to his studio after the final gig of the Secret World tour (Woodstock Festival 1994), fans' eyes were riveted on Box, longing for an answer to the question that was eating away at them - "Oh my! Eight long years - was it worth the wait?" It was definitely worth it, and it would have been worth a much longer wait, too. And the Peter we kind of love is the Peter that is expressing his inner passions." - Spencer Bright, September 2001 Probably because it´s not personal enough. " OVO doesn't work on its own as an album. "This is going to be unlike any previous Gabriel album." - Radio Real World, 1996 Peter Gabriel's UP LIFE, DEATH, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING