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Peace | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1990 | |||
Recorded | 1989–1990 | |||
Genre | Synth-pop | |||
Length | 53:58 | |||
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Epic endpop.com | |||
Producer | Jon St. James | |||
Anything Box chronology | ||||
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Peace is the debut album by the American band Anything Box, released in 1990 on Epic Records. [1] [2] It was remastered and rereleased on endpop in 2018. The album includes " Living in Oblivion", the band's biggest hit, which found success in both the clubs and on radio. [3] [4]
The album was produced by Jon St. James. [5]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
Los Angeles Times | [7] |
The Los Angeles Times determined that "songs are put together like Lego houses, out of discreet bits of linked melodic material... But the process becomes formulaic after a while: mechanical beats overlaid with soft keyboard gauze and a puff of vocal melody." [7]
AllMusic wrote that "the Anything Box sound can be likened to that of Erasure, with simple pop hooks, soaring vocals, and bubbly synths." [6] Spin noted that "Living in Oblivion" "revive[d] the dread that was barely concealed in all those '70s Bee Gees disco hits." [8]
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