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Album Review: PEACE - In Love
Indie | Wednesday 27th March 2013 | Charles
Around this time last year a little known Birmingham band called PEACE released a debut singe called Follow Baby, it was good but nothing so shocking as too build the mountain of hype the band faced by the beginning of this year. That was more because of their EP Delicious, easily one of the best of last year, and a history of crazy live shows.
But now with their debut LP In Love the true test of the band begins. Opener Higher than the Sun bursts in with pulse of all those bands TOY took inspiration from, while previously mentioned reworked single Follow Baby sets the mood for the rest of the album. The advantage that PEACE have over their competitors in the ‘voice of young Britain’ like Palma Violets and the Vaccines, is that instead of monochrome sheen they pride themselves in a range of colourful sounds and songs. While frontman Harrison Koisser may not be most the poetic or deep of frontmen he portrays a great sense of nostalgia and swagger comparable to that of Jagger. The rhythm sections keep the liveliness up throughout and these are some of the best guitar licks and solos in a long time.
The issues retain to the bands inability to diverge from catchy 3-4 minute tracks, especially in the wake of the EPs fantastic closer 1998, and because of this the record feels more like a collection and a true album. At the peaks of my hopes for PEACE I saw them as making a debut like the Stones Roses’ back in 1989, but in the end its just the best debut in at least the last 6 months.
By Charles Pegg
