| Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll | ||||
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| Released | 4 May 2018 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 35:06 | |||
| Label | Ignition | |||
| Producer | Simone Felice | |||
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Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll is the third studio album by British indie rock band Peace, released on 4 May 2018. Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll was produced by Simone Felice.
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| NME | [3] |
| Clash |   [4] |
| The Edge | [5] |
| The Independent | [6] |
| DIY | [7] |
| NARC Magazine | [8] |
| Q | [9] |
Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll received generally positive reviews upon release, gaining a score of 8/10 with NME , and 8/10 from The Independent , and positive reviews from DIY , who stated that Harry Koisser was "the ideal frontperson: a head mix of swaggering bombast, fashionable loucheness and your mate down the local spewing inspirational Tumblr quotes at closing time". [10] However, Q gave the album a more mixed review of 6/10, saying that they "occasionally slip into boilerplate territory". Most reviewers believed it was a return to form for the band.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Power" | 3:03 |
| 2. | "Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll" | 2:43 |
| 3. | "Silverlined" | 3:34 |
| 4. | "You Don't Walk Away from Love" | 3:07 |
| 5. | "From Under Liquid Glass" | 4:41 |
| 6. | "Magnificent" | 3:03 |
| 7. | "Angel" | 4:05 |
| 8. | "Shotgun Hallelujah" | 4:16 |
| 9. | "Just a Ride" | 2:35 |
| 10. | "Choose Love" | 3:59 |
| Total length: | 35:06 | |
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