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Peace announce kindly new album

By | Published on Thursday 15 February 2018

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Peace released a standalone new single last week, and you were all, like, “Huh, weird they’re not putting out a new album”. But they are. They are putting out a new album. They fooled you. Just like everyone fools you. You are an idiot.

That’s right, Peace have just announced that they will release a new album, called ‘Kindness Is The New Rock N Roll’, on 4 May. Hmm, if that title’s right, then maybe I shouldn’t have called you an idiot just now. Sorry. You’re not an idiot. You’re just very willing to take things at face value. But that’s fine. It’s endearing really. Honestly, I think it’s nice.

Anyway, this album was written in a National Trust property out in the middle of nowhere somewhere in Herefordshire. “I was a total townie”, says frontman Harry Koisser of adjusting to these surroundings. “I spent six months out in an actual forest. It was very Hobbit-ish, very Hobbit-esque. Extremely isolating and scary”.

Still, this and working with producer Simone Felice brought out a new creativity in the band, Koisser continues: “Simone doesn’t do any sounds. He gets into your soul. He’ll take you into a room and touch your heart, he’ll drive you down into the Catskill Mountains and say, ‘Smell the pines! Go and splash your face in the stream!’ Then he’ll take you back to the studio. I never ever thought I could sing like that. Simone found that. He physically massaged it out of my chest with his hands”.

So that’s cool. But with the album finished, the band now have to head back into all those bullshit cities to play their songs live to all you idiots. I mean, all you gullible but endearing fools. By which I mean they’ve announced some tour dates. Here they are:

5 May: Newcastle, Meet The North
5 May: Live At Leeds
6 May: Liverpool Sound City
8 May: Glasgow, St Luke’s
9 May: Sheffield, The Leadmill
11 May: York, Fibbers
12 May: Derby, The Venue
13 May: Hull, The Welly Club
15 May: Norwich, The Waterfront
16 May: London, The Forum
19 May: Southampton, Engine Rooms
20 May: Bristol, SWX
22 May: Reading, Sub89
23 May: Dryden Street Social
24 May: Birmingham, Academy

Last week’s new single ‘Power’ will be on the album. As will ‘Under Liquid Glass’, which they released last year. And you thought both those tracks were just random standalone songs. I take it back. You’re an idiot. I despair, I really do.



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