Peter Gabriel / Put The Bucket Down

Peter Gabriel has made available the second single from his forthcoming album o/i.

‘Put the Bucket Down’ is available first in its Bright-Side Mix by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent and a Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake will follow later in the month (on the new moon, to be exact).

The song’s foundation is a mid-paced funk groove and it runs for nearly seven minutes. There’s plenty of production flourishes, a strong piano-based chorus section, a horn break and lots to enjoy.

Gabriel explains that the ‘bucket’ is “all the crap that goes around our head all the time”, with the idea being that putting the bucket down is how we find a way forward. He also revealed an intriguing “show” concept:

“As a side project, I am working on a show with the brain as the central core and there are a number of songs, some on i/o and some on o\i that will be part of that. This is one of those and it’s a point in the narrative where we can both read and write thoughts and the person singing is not sure whether he has his own thoughts or not. Is he inside his own mind or inside someone else’s?” Peter Gabriel

The songs artwork has been created by Tomás Saraceno and three different type of spiders, Cyrtophora citricola, Nephila senegalensis and Holocnemus pluchei. The work is called Cosmic Spider/Web and it’s Saraceno and 12 spiders who are credited with “authorship”.