And they're not likely to be disappointed, since this album grows stronger, revealing more with each listen. Really, there is no other choice for an artist as somber and ambitious as Gabriel to craft an album as dense as Up those who have waited diligently for ten years would be disappointed with anything less and, frankly, they're the only audience that matters after a decade. This is not an accessible record, nor is it easy to warm up to, which means that many may dismiss it upon a single listen or two, never giving it the time it demands in order to be understood (it does not help matters that the one attempt at a single is the ham-fisted, wrong-headed trash-TV "satire" "The Barry Williams Show," which feels utterly forced and out of place here, as if Geffen was pleading for anything resembling a single to add to the album). Perhaps appropriately, Up sounds like an album that was ten years in the making, revealing not just its pleasures but its intent very, very slowly. Such is the case with Peter Gabriel, who delivered Up in 2002, a decade after Us and four years after he announced its title. Ten years is a long time, especially in pop music, but waiting ten years to deliver an album is a clear sign that you're not all that interested in the pop game anyway.
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