Peace (Anything Box album) explained

Peace
Type:	Album
Artist:	Anything Box
Cover:	AnythingBox_Peace.jpg
Released:	1990
Recorded:	1989–1990
Genre:	Synth-pop
Length:	53:58
Label:	Epic endpop.com
Producer:	Jon St. James
Next Title:	Worth
Next Year:	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]}

Production

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

Critical reception

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."

AllMusic wrote that "the Anything Box sound can be likened to that of Erasure, with simple pop hooks, soaring vocals, and bubbly synths." Spin noted that "Living in Oblivion" "revive[d] the dread that was barely concealed in all those '70s Bee Gees disco hits."^[6]

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

• Claude S
• Dania Morales
• Paul Rijnders

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anything Box Biography by Tom Demalon . AllMusic . 14 April 2023.
2. Web site: Anything Box Give Us a Synth Pop Flashback in Fullerton . OC Weekly . 14 April 2023.
3. Web site: Rouner . Jef . Anything Box Is Back from 'Oblivion' . Houston Press . 14 April 2023.
4. Single Reviews . Billboard . Apr 23, 1994 . 106 . 17 . 75.
5. News: Boehm . Mike . A Hit Out of the Box? . Los Angeles Times . 15 Feb 1990 . F3.
6. Eddy . Chuck . Spins . Spin . Apr 1994 . 10 . 1 . 93.