"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".