★★★★★
Gabriel's creativity has only gotten stronger with age and his output, now that he's an older gentleman, remains more than satisfying. But this concert, filmed at the height of the singer's popularity during the tour to support the So album, is nothing short of electrifying. Backed by a stellar band that includes well-traveled bass man Tony Levin and keys player David Sancious, Gabriel and company are extremely animated while performing opening tune "This is the Picture," doing a synchronized...
- www.antimusic.com
2014-01-14
★★★★★
"I was seen as a fairly intense, eccentric Englishman," Peter Gabriel notes about reductive mutterings that, prior to the game-changing success of the 1986 single Sledgehammer, he was an over-indulged art-rock nutjob. As RC's Daryl Easlea relates in the meticulous Without Frontiers, Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic even insensitively surmised that Gabriel had incurred a breakdown during the writing of his third solo album.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-01-02
★★★★★
In 2010, Peter Gabriel released a sublime album of covers. They were all songs that came from the pop world, but Gabriel gave himself the guidelines to perform each one without the aid of guitars or drums. With just an orchestra, piano, and voice in tow, Scratch My Back astounded and confused listeners around the world. Some of Gabriel's renditions of such well known songs were so far removed from their original versions that only the presence of the lyrics suggested any musical connection...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-18
★★★★★
Peter Gabriel is surely one of the most unpredictable artists today. His career path has proven to be of a mercurial kind with him taking the road less travelled as Gabriel has more often than not sought unusual experiences as a source for his intensively felt music. Long an inventive musical conceptualist he has always sought challenge on all fronts?musically, visually, technologically and emotionally...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-10-13
★★★★★
Peter Gabriel's latest project didn't go exactly as planned. In 2010, he released Scratch My Back, his first studio album in eight years, which collected skeletal covers of songs by the Arcade Fire, Radiohead, David Bowie, Bon Iver, and Paul Simon. It was part of a concept where each of the artists he covered would then cover his songs on a follow-up titled And I'll Scratch Yours...
- pitchfork.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
'And I'll Scratch Yours' was originally scheduled for release three years ago and is the almost-complete companion album to Peter Gabriel's 2010 LP 'Scratch My Back', on which he collected distinctive cover versions of tracks by Randy Newman, Neil Young, Radiohead, Paul Simon and others. Aside from Radiohead and Young, everyone that was Gabriel-ised on the original album returns the favour here...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-09-10
★★★★★
The classic '86 solo album, lavishly packaged with extras... A pop star isn't supposed to have his biggest hit at the age of 36, 16 years after his debut and six albums into his solo career. And, as we're constantly told, prog rock dinosaurs were supposed to have been slain in the evenements of 1977. Peter Gabriel, of course, seemed magnificently unconcerned by such details...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-04-02
★★★★★
The perfectionism that courses through Peter Gabriel's work is borne out by this 26th anniversary edition of So, his 1986 commercial tour de force. It should have been ready to coincide with the album's silver jubilee in 2011 but, with Gabriel's craftsman's care and attention to detail, and the anniversary coinciding with one of the busiest periods in his entire career, he was not to be rushed. So... we have it now, 26 years and five months after its original release...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Introduction When Peter Gabriel unleashed So on the public in May of 1986, it became a touchstone record listeners and peers studied and stood in awe of. The rich and textured layers proved to be ear candy for musicologists as they sat in disbelief wondering how he constructed such splendor. It is still a record people marvel over; So was built from the ground up with alluring hums and tremors from not just world music, but from soul, r&b; and pop as well...
- www.antimusic.com
2013-04-01
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