Peter Gabriel took far less time to put out new music this time around than he did previously, when he took 21 years to give fans i/o. The new album o\i got a preview with the lead single "Been Undone" earlier this year, which was followed by "Put The Bucket Down" and "What Lies Ahead," which was dropped on the day of each full moon. Now, on Good Friday we get "Till Your Mind Is Shining,"
"To my ears it's the closest I get to a pop song on this record.” Gabriel posted in a release. “The song began around a chord sequence which I liked and which felt quite poppy and playful, so I just kept on playing around with it till I had something. Of all the songs that I’ve written for i/o and o\i this is probably the poppiest for me. It takes me back to my schooldays, in some ways, because before there was Genesis we were effectively trying to be songwriters more than musicians - pop songs or soul / R&B songs. I think this song connects me back to some of those roots and the sort of thing that I was working on then and trying to master. Some elements of this are a few years old, I mean pretty much most things I work on take a while to mature. I leave songs for a while and go and do something else and when I come back to them and they smell alive, I will want to complete them. I really enjoyed singing this one, particularly the end, and I think the band had a good time playing it too. You can hear some wonderful performances from all the band. It was really a fun thing to create.