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Peter Gabriel - Up Audio CD

A fair review of the Peter Gabriel "Up" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Peter Gabriel reviews here, or go back to the Peter Gabriel tabs.

Peter Gabriel Band: Peter Gabriel
Title: Up
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-09-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Darkness 2: Growing Up 3: Sky Blue 4: No Way Out 5: I Grieve 6: The Barry Williams Show 7: My Head Sounds Like That 8: More Than This 9: Signal To Noise 10: The Drop

Masterpiece
Such great lyrics. This so amazing. New sounds. Innovative. Musicianship is excellent. What a special artist. So powerful. Unafraid to show all this emotion. What a spirit. .


Peter Gabriel's Up

It doesn't sound like a Peter Gabriel album at all but I knew I made a good decision when I bought it. I think the 10 year wait between studio albums finally paid off with this album. I listened to it and really ended up liking it.
This is one of my favorite Gabriel albums after "Us. " I would definitely recommend this to any Peter Gabriel fan.


Warm when not calculatedly cold
Here the artist provides another satisfactory album of dark, layered pop with plenty of shimmering moments, and a few wholly organic pleasures, though rarely strikes solid gold primarily due to an over-labored vibe churning along to dull electronic flourishes I can only guess represents Gabriel's slick but untrue continued relevance as hipster-godfather. Up feels like much of Gabriel's esteemed but overshadowed solo career,itself a study in ex-frontman artistic integrity. .


Up
The cover of the booklet has drops of water falling. Up being Gabriel's 2002 and his 7th studio album is a very experimental and avantgarde release with tracks such as darkness, Sky Blue, I grieve (which was written in 1998 and had nothing to do with 9/11) to mention a few. I have no idea what it is supposed to represent. The rest of the album is filled with strange and confounding photographs. Each picture has a nice list of whom played on each track and what they played. However we do not get any lyrics and that is not so nice. 4/5.
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Up? Therapy of Darkness for the Hopelessly Happy
I have followed his career with both anticipation, and at times, trepidation. Peter Gabriel is one of my ten favorite artists ever. Since his grand departure from Genesis in 1976 Gabriel's compositional and lyrical ability have never waned. However, if you are uninitiated to Peter Gabriel be aware of why he left Genesis.
That being said, Peter Gabriel continues to follow his own drummer. I wish that the record company's would have had the guts to continue to let him issue albums titled Peter Gabriel. Let the listener figure it out, because that is what you do with a Gabriel album anyway. Just when you think you might know where the next move will be, Gabriel counters with an artistic counter jab. Such is the case with UP.

I would have given this album 5 stars had Sky Blue been omitted and one more halfway upbeat song were inserted. By far and away the darkest album Gabriel has done (Where is Father/Son?); yes darker than the historic "melting face" album.

Kicking things in the gut, Darkness bludgeons the listener with a jack boot thud and razor lyrics, softening all at once with a sympathetic plea from the protaganist. Growing Up and No Way Out follow the same theme of hope lost and hoping hope will re-appear, both working off the tribal rhythms Gabriel continues to explore. The strong triumvirat of The Barry Williams Show, My Head Sounds Like That, and More Than This pull the listener out of the dirge, beautiful as it may be, of I Grieve.

This is not the place to start if you have never been exposed to Gabriel. He is an aquired tastes of sorts, SO being his only truly accesible album on first listen. But do not be afraid, dark as it may be UP conveys the light of a musical icon that continues to excite and confound all at once.

Thank God for Peter Gabriel and those risk takers who continue to produce, pioneer, and refine their craft.


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