2013 has became the year of psychedelic music and as a genre emerges, there is always a new wave of future bands. When it come to psychedelic, B-Town's pysch-rockers and acid-lovers
Peace lead the way after being one of the biggest buzz bands of last year. So, with such hype placed on the band after their EP
Delicious, a debut album had high expectations. With fellow 2012 hype band
Palma Violets disappointed a few with their debut album after so much talk, Peace were in danger of doing this. Luckily, the debut
In Love has failed to disappoint. The quartet from Birmingham decided to make an album about love - something that is a generic theme when creating an album, but it works. A mixture of upbeat pop tracks and shoegazing slow tunes are enough to see this album as potentially one of the best of the year. In Love starts with bright opener
Higher Than the Sun which is then followed by grungy single and fan favourite
Follow Baby which is one of the better tracks. To look at the album as an overall, every song is about love, but some celebrating it and some exploiting the faults in it. The likes of
Lovesick give it a positive look with frontman
Harry Koisser crying
"I don't wanna go to school.../...I just want to be a fool and get lovesick with you" before delving into slow, swaying song
Float Forever. As the first four tracks on the album are positive, the album starts to become darker and hateful. The flaws of love are revealed as Koisser starts to realise that his story soon turns from a romance to having a distaste for it.
Wraith is the turning point where it almost seems like despite the love shown
"You can be my ice age sugar", Koisser starts to see the worst in this girl
"I don't wanna see you". Followed by a moody
Delicious which possesses just as many great riffs as follow-up song
Waste of Paint is one of the highlights of the album with a massive chorus.
Toxic is a bit of enjoyable indie rock which is a pretty gloomy song despite its upbeat sound as Koisser screams
"all I gotta do is forget you" as he deals with getting over an ex. A beautiful end to the album concludes with
California Daze which like Float Forever, is a slow number but with added hooks and some great backing vocals from Harry's brother,
Sam. All in all, Peace have hardly put a foot wrong with In Love and have produced one of the best British debut albums of the past five years.
Rating: 9/10
Best Tracks: Wraith, Delicious, Toxic
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