Peter Gabriel has released another song in his long-running full-moon rollout, and this time the track is “I Belong to the Sky.” The new song arrived on June 30, 2026, coinciding with the Strawberry Moon, and continues Gabriel’s unusual release pattern for his upcoming album o\i. It is the seventh track he has issued from the project so far.
Like the earlier releases from the album cycle, “I Belong to the Sky” is being presented as part of a bigger concept rather than just a standalone single. The track is out first as the Bright-Side Mix by Mark “Spike” Stent, with a Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake scheduled to follow on the next new moon. That release structure has become a defining feature of Gabriel’s o\i campaign, which has stretched out over multiple lunar cycles.
The song also arrives with new visual art by Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde, whose image “Nimbus de Toekomst 1, 2019” accompanies the release. Gabriel said he was drawn to the work because it captures the feeling of a cloud brought indoors, and he linked that image to the song’s central idea of crossing between inner and outer worlds. In his words, “I loved this image of the sky,” and “The cloud brought inside — that mixture of outside and interior worlds. I think that’s what the song is all about.”
That sense of movement between spaces also fits the larger arc of the o\i project. Gabriel has been releasing songs on the full moon since the album campaign began, and the pattern has turned each new track into more of an event than a typical single drop. Prior full-moon releases in the cycle include “A Hard Lesson,” “Won’t Stand Down,” “Till Your Mind Is Shining,” “What Lies Ahead,” “Put Down the Bucket,” and “Been Undone.”
The result is a release strategy that feels very Peter Gabriel: patient, conceptual, and tied to image as much as sound. Louder described the track as groove-laden and slow-building, while The Line of Best Fit noted the timing with the Strawberry Moon and framed it as the latest step in Gabriel’s increasingly ambitious moon-cycle rollout.
For fans, the bigger story is not just that Gabriel has a new song out. It is that he is still treating the album as a living, unfolding work, with every release tied to a moment in the lunar calendar and every visual chosen to deepen the atmosphere around the music. “I Belong to the Sky” keeps that idea going, and it gives o\i another vivid piece of the puzzle.
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