Today, the pink full moon sees the release of “Till Your Mind Is Shining”, which is the fourth track to be taken from Peter 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 Peter 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,” said the artist.

Gabriel adds: ” 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. 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.”