In the iconic scene, Cusack holds a boombox over his head – with the Gabriel song playing – as Ione Skye looks down from her bedroom window. It’s a classic moment in the ’80s movie zeitgeist.

Between Gabriel Brown’s vocals and impressions of everybody from Simon Cowell to Gollum to Blake Shelton, Nate Brown’s instruments, and the new technological twist, they have a lot going for them.

Peter Gabriel released Up in 2002, and it took him 21 years to put out another album of original material. While it shouldn’t take listeners 21 years to warm up to the long-awaited i/o, it’s ...