Album artwork for Strange Peace by Metz

Metz unleash their highly-anticipated third full-length album, Strange Peace, an emphatic but artful hammer swing to the status quo. Strange Peace was recorded in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with Steve Albini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of their live show. The trio continued to assemble the album (including home recordings, additional instrumentation) in their hometown, adding the finishing touches with longtime collaborator, engineer and mixer, Graham Walsh. Strange Peace isn’t merely a collection of eleven uninhibited and urgent songs. It’s also a kind of sonic venting, a truculent social commentary that bludgeons and provokes, excites and unsettles. With all the pleasurable tension and anxiety of a fever dream, Strange Peace is equal parts challenging and accessible. It is this implausible balancing act, moving from one end of the musical spectrum to the other, that only a band of Metz’s power and capacity can maintain: discordant and melodic, powerful and controlled, meticulous and instinctive, subtle and complex, precise and reckless, wholehearted and merciless, brutal and optimistic, terrifying and fun.

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Strange Peace

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Metz

Strange Peace

Sub Pop
Album artwork for Strange Peace by Metz
LP

£19.99

Black Vinyl with Download.

Released 22/09/2017Catalogue Number

sp1199

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Album artwork for Strange Peace by Metz
CD

£9.99

Released 22/09/2017Catalogue Number

SPCD1199

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Album artwork for Strange Peace by Metz
Tape

£9.99

Released 22/09/2017Catalogue Number

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Metz unleash their highly-anticipated third full-length album, Strange Peace, an emphatic but artful hammer swing to the status quo. Strange Peace was recorded in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with Steve Albini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of their live show. The trio continued to assemble the album (including home recordings, additional instrumentation) in their hometown, adding the finishing touches with longtime collaborator, engineer and mixer, Graham Walsh. Strange Peace isn’t merely a collection of eleven uninhibited and urgent songs. It’s also a kind of sonic venting, a truculent social commentary that bludgeons and provokes, excites and unsettles. With all the pleasurable tension and anxiety of a fever dream, Strange Peace is equal parts challenging and accessible. It is this implausible balancing act, moving from one end of the musical spectrum to the other, that only a band of Metz’s power and capacity can maintain: discordant and melodic, powerful and controlled, meticulous and instinctive, subtle and complex, precise and reckless, wholehearted and merciless, brutal and optimistic, terrifying and fun.

LP - Black Vinyl with Download.

LP+ - Limited Loser Colour Vinyl with Download.