In love

"Anyone encountering Peace's debut album after reading the blog buzz that led the Birmingham quartet to a major-label deal and their current hotly tipped status might be forgiven for feeling a little nonplussed ... The listener is (...) primed for something cerebral, leftfield, experimental, mysterious, perhaps a little dry and academic. Which means you face confusion when you actually put on In Love, an album that's none of those things ... You can, in fairness, occasionally hear something of Vampire Weekend's guitar tones about it, but what In Love most obviously recalls is the work of dimly remembered bands like the Dylans, Bedazzled or Airhead: journeymen scooped up by major labels in the aftermath of the Stone Roses' and Happy Mondays' dual appearance on Top of the Pops, their careers doomed the minute Nirvana released Nevermind. Like those groups, it dishes up a glossy amalgam of the indie styles of 1991 ... Those more inclined to look kindly on proceedings and, well,givePeace a chance, might point out that if they audibly don't have an original thought in their heads, then at least their execution of other people's ideas is pretty good".

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"It should be clear to any music listener of a certain age what to expect when an album's opening track is titled "Higher Than the Sun". The Primal Scream track of the same name was a major influence on the British indie dance/rock scene of the early '90s that paved the way for Britpop to dominate the UK music headlines and charts for a few heady years in the mid-'90s. And while In Love certainly plants its guitars in that era, it is actually a couple years earlier that the main influences of this album belong, that of the Baggy scene bestrode by the Happy Mondays and the Stones Roses ... Young audiences will love it, free and ignorant maybe, of the influences so apparent in Peace's music, whilst others (...) will fail to understand the fuss and hype and will be tempted to dismiss the album and the band as a one off, devoid of originality. To do so though would be a disservice I think to the band. They certainly know how to write catchy indie guitar music and, given thechance,will improve and (...) develop into the band many people claim they already are. They are not there yet...".

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"With any luck, 2013 will be the year that Peace breaks out all over ... Peace's core values are indie guitar rock, but with myriad disparate influences. The grumbling chords of "Follow Baby" suggest a sort of British Nirvana, the concluding snarl of guitar noise furnishing a punky exclamation mark; but it's set alongside the euphoric rocker "Higher Than the Sun", where guitars weave woozily in cyclical, Byrds-style arpeggios, as the verses resolve into a surging hook ... Koisser's an intriguing songwriter, bringing an innovative eye to the age-old business of love through quirky images ... [Their songs] are evidence of a keen musical imagination at work, reinvigorating tired indie modes with fresh ideas, images and sounds".

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"Inspirationen fra [Primal Scream] præger hele albummet. Tydeligst på et nummer som 'Waste of Paint' der ligesom Primal Scream anno først i 90'erne er lyden af klubmusik gennem et 60'er-forelsket rockfilter. Der er ingen skam i at kopiere skotterne, som selv lystigt har stjålet med arme og ben, så længe sangskrivningen har den fornødne kvalitet. Det har den desværre ikke på hele albummet ... Det er vel sommerens festivalsæson, der skal afgøre, hvorvidt Peace vitterligt er contenders til at blive det næste Kasabian, eller om de ligesom sidste sæsons Django Django må nøjes med at forblive en fornøjelig kuriositet. Denne helt habile debutplade giver i hvert fald ikke noget entydigt svar".

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