On original LP pressings of the album, the audio of 'White Shadow' (the last song on Side One) continued into a locked groove.Closer to the root of the album, there's a purity, a strength to the songs individual enough to mark Gabriel out as a man whose creative zenith is close at hand.' Track listing once past the disarming non-focus veneer, there's a quietly remarkable talent at work – quiet in the manner of the slow fuse burn of 'Mother of Violence' with Roy Bittan's piano work outstripping anything he's turned out for either Bruce Springsteen or David Bowie. In the NME in 1978, Nick Kent wrote: 'Its brazenly left-field veneer left me cold at first, and it's only now that its strengths are starting to come across . Fripp recorded a version of the song as the title track of his 1979 solo album Exposure.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores The influence of producer Robert Fripp is evident in the use of Frippertronics on the track 'Exposure', which Fripp and Gabriel cowrote. Background Robert Fripp produced the album Some music streaming services refer to it as Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch. It later became known informally as Scratch, referring to the album's artwork by Hipgnosis. The album was released in the US as Peter Gabriel II. He employed former King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, who was part of Gabriel's early touring band, to produce the album and incorporated his use of Frippertronics effects on the co-written 'Exposure'. Gabriel started recording the album in November 1977, the same month that he had completed touring in support of his debut solo release. Peter Gabriel is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 3 June 1978 by Charisma Records.

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