Peace (Anything Box album)

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Peace
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Studio album by
Anything Box
Released1990
Recorded1989–1990
Genre Synth-pop
Length53:58
Label Epic
Producer Jon St. James
Anything Box chronology
Peace
(1990)		Worth
(1992)

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]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Jon St. James. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [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]

Track listing

  1. "Living in Oblivion" – 5:12
  2. "When We Lie" – 4:00
  3. "Kiss of Love" – 4:57
  4. "Jubilation" – 4:59
  5. "Soul on Fire" – 4:58
  6. "Our Dreams" – 5:18
  7. "Carmen" – 4:55
  8. "Lady in Waiting" – 5:13
  9. "I Felt the Pain" – 5:32
  10. "Hypocrites" – 5:27
  11. "Just One Day" – 5:01
  12. "All These Days Undone" – 3:24

Personnel

Anything Box

References

  1. ↑ "Anything Box Biography by Tom Demalon". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Anything Box Give Us a Synth Pop Flashback in Fullerton". OC Weekly. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Rouner, Jef. "Anything Box Is Back from 'Oblivion'". Houston Press. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "Single Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 17. Apr 23, 1994. p. 75.
  5. ↑ Boehm, Mike (15 Feb 1990). "A Hit Out of the Box?". Los Angeles Times. p. F3.
  6. 1 2 "Peace Review by William Cooper". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  7. 1 2 Boehm, Mike (19 Apr 1990). "Anything Box Peace". Los Angeles Times. p. F3.
  8. ↑ Eddy, Chuck (Apr 1994). "Spins". Spin. 10 (1): 93.
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