Peace in Our Time (Big Country album) explained

Peace in Our Time
Type:	studio
Artist:	Big Country
Cover:	Big Country - Peace in Our Time.jpg
Released:	26 September 1988^[1]
Genre:	Alternative rock, new wave, Celtic rock
Length:	65:38
Label:	Reprise (US) Mercury
Producer:	Peter Wolf
Prev Title:	The Seer
Prev Year:	1986
Next Year:	1990

Peace in Our Time is the fourth studio album by the Scottish band Big Country, released in 1988.^[2]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote, "Big Country took a surprising detour on the deliriously overproduced Peace in Our Time, which submerges its trademark sound in sanitized, synthesized musical settings ... [the] drastic recast feels like commercial desperation rather than artistic restlessness."^[3] The Chicago Tribune wrote that the album displays "a more gentle and subtle style and a crisper, more delicate sound".^[4]

Personnel

Big Country

• Stuart Adamson – guitar, piano, vocals, e-bow
• Mark Brzezicki – drums, percussion
• Tony Butler – bass guitar, guitar, vocals
• Bruce Watson – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, sitar, vocals, e-bow

Additional personnel

• Peter Wolf – keyboards
• Maxine Anderson – backing vocals
• Merry Clayton – backing vocals
• Donna Davidson – backing vocals
• Josh Phillips – keyboards

Charts

Chart (1988)!scope="col"

Peak position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[5]	6
German Albums Chart^[6]	40
Swedish Albums Chart^[7]	25
UK Albums Chart^[8]	9
US Billboard 200^[9]	160

References

1. Smith . Robin . 24 September 1988 . News: Releases . . 6 . 0144-5804.
2. Web site: Big Country | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Web site: Big Country . Trouser Press . 8 March 2021.
4. News: Heim . Chris . BIG COUNTRY HAS GENTLER STYLE, CRISPER SOUND . Chicago Tribune . 21 Oct 1988 . 98.
5. Book: Pennanen, Timo . Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 . Big Country . 30 . 2021 . Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava . Helsinki . 978-952-7460-01-6.
6. Web site: Big Country, Peace In Our Time . German . fK Entertainment . 20 September 2011.
7. Web site: Big Country - Peace In Our Time . Hung Medien . 20 September 2011.
8. Web site: BIG COUNTRY - full Official Chart History . The Official UK Charts Company . 5 November 2018.
9. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=big country|chart=Billboard 200}} Big Country > Chart History ]. Billboard . 20 September 2011.