PEACE RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘HAPPY CARS’
FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM UTOPIA AVAILABLE ON VINYL FROM 3RD NOVEMBER
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On ‘Happy Cars’, Peace return with their first single since 2018 in a thrilling evolution on their classic sound, with the band having moved from strength to strength since spearheading the Birmingham scene over a decade ago.
The single is taken from the band’s fourth studio album, Utopia, and it is the first track from the record to be widely available on streaming services following Utopia’s exclusive release in early 2023 on a password-protected website.
A limited run of vinyl copies of Utopia was announced earlier this month and is available for pre-order now and shipping from Friday 3rd November. The full Utopia album does not yet have a date for release to streaming services or digital stores, making the vinyl currently the only way to own the album in full.
The artwork for the album was shot by acclaimed artist and photographer Martin Parr, whose work has been displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery, and the Serpentine Gallery, to name a few. In 2021, Parr received a CBE for his services to photography. The photograph used for the album artwork depicts Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England. It was taken in 1975 and it is a part of Parr’s ‘Beauty Spots’ collection.
Earlier this year, Peace re-emerged from a two-year chrysalis in Somerset as a two piece, now composed of brothers Harry & Sam Koisser and “run like one of the great Italian fashion houses.”. During that brief spell out of the limelight, Peace created ‘Utopia’, their first new music since 2019. Sonically, the album is an evolution on Peace’s sound – adding elements of folk & ambient electronica to their already diverse sonic palette.
A password to preview the album on the band’s own web-player can be obtained by purchasing tickets to any of the band’s headline shows this November, their first headline tour in four years which includes a hometown show at Birmingham Town Hall, an already SOLD OUT show at Manchester New Century Hall, and a closing night at London’s Heaven which is also now SOLD OUT. Speaking exclusively to NME about their “loss-making streaming system” – Harry joked: “People said uploading our new album to a secret website was career suicide.”
The band recently also made their first festival return last month, debuting new music at a packed-out midnight slot at Latitude Festival.
Tickets for Peace’s 2023 headline tour are available to purchase HERE.
Peace’s 2013 debut album ‘In Love’ emerged from a celebrated Birmingham scene and established a sound that came to define British guitar music for the rest of the 2010s. Their slick, anthemic 2015 follow-up ‘Happy People’established the band as festival favourites and saw them headline the O2 Academy Brixton. Peace now re-emerge into 2023 determined to break the mould they set for so many others ten years ago with their most ambitious album to date.
2023 Peace Live Dates
3rd November – Bath, Komedia Bath
4th November – Birmingham, Birmingham Town Hall
5th November – Southampton, Engine Rooms
7th November – Leeds, Leeds University Stylus
8th November – Glasgow, Òran Mór
9th November – Newcastle, Wylam Brewery
10th November – Sheffield, Foundry
11th November – Manchester, Manchester New Century Hall – SOLD OUT
14th November – London, Heaven- SOLD OUT
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