Scratch Tracks

On the one hand, I'd really, really like Peter Gabriel to get back to making Peter Gabriel albums. After "curating" last year's Big Blue Ball, the former Genesis frontman is now getting ready to release an album of covers, done as orchestral arrangements.

There's always a twist with Gabriel, though, and here it's the combination of his album Scratch My Back and the eventual companion piece, I'll Scratch Yours. It seems the artists he's tackling on this record will be returning the favor. I'm definitely looking forward to Elbow, David Bowie and Radiohead playing Peter's music. If I were to guess, I'd say Elbow goes with something like "Love To Be Loved," Bowie takes the obvious "Games Without Frontiers," and Radiohead does something deliberately weird, like "Fourteen Black Paintings" or "We Do What We're Told (milgram's 37)".