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'I Grieve' was conceived after Gabriel looked over his catalogue of music as if it were a catalogue of emotional tools. The track 'No Way Out' is the first track to deal with death solely, though death is a common theme across the entire album. 'Sky Blue' is a track Gabriel claimed to have been working on for 10 years before finishing it. 'Growing Up' is a summation of life put to a pulsating beat. The opening track, 'Darkness', is a song about overcoming fears. The album's lyrics deal mostly with birth and especially death.

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also intended to release an album bearing the same title, but decided to keep it after consulting with the band and much consideration: 'I have been living in an 'Up' world for four years now and have no wish to come down.' In the months preceding the album's release, video clips of Gabriel talking about the songs as well as short demos of each song were released at the coming of every full moon on Gabriel's official website. Its name was Up from the start, though at one point the name I/O was considered. Between them they'd figure out which of the newly recorded parts would be used in the mix or not. He would work on the mixes in the Big Room in Real World Studios, while Gabriel and Chappell continued recording in the Writing Room. Renowned mixer Tchad Blake was invited to Real World Studios in early 2001 to begin the final mixing stage. īy late 2000, work on the album was finally gathering renewed pace, with a string section recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Studios in London amongst other things. However, in November 1998, both engineers decided to focus on completing the OVO soundtrack, so work on Up was temporarily put on hold. At one point, work was being done simultaneously on both Up and the OVO soundtrack for a few months, separately by engineers Chappell and Richard Evans (respectively). From then on, the rest of the album work was based at Real World Studios, where further writing, recording, overdubbing, editing and mixing took place over the next four to five years.

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He and engineer Richard Chappell travelled between different locations during the initial writing stages of the album using a portable setup (recording at Real World Studios in between): the first two months were spent in a rented chalet in Méribel, then three months in Senegal starting in October 1995, followed by another trip to Méribel in Spring 1996 and a brief recording stint on a friend's recording-studio-equipped boat along the Amazon in Summer 1997. Gabriel started work on the album in the spring of 1995.

It is his most recent full-length studio album of new original material to date, as the subsequent albums Scratch My Back and New Blood feature covers of other artists' songs, and orchestral renderings of Gabriel's older material, respectively. Up (2002) is the seventh studio and 13th album overall released by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. Released: 2 August 2004 (Switzerland only)

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