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78

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Canadian noise rock trio of Alex Edkins, Chris Slorach and Hayden Menzies was produced by Steve Albini.
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Cellophane
Look at me, I'm such a basket case Delivered to you wrapped in cellophane Waiting on your doorstep every day Delivery, a basket filled with... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Sep 22, 2017
    90
    While the band challenge themselves, occasionally blindsiding fans too ("Caterpillar" is a demo that only features Edkins), there's also a reassuring aspect to the calm confidence of METZ here, though they find themselves in a lost world.
  2. 80
    With Strange Peace, Metz have created an album that still largely has one foot rooted in the best of their past, but sees the other stretching forward into a future that is just as riotous.
  3. Q Magazine
    Oct 24, 2017
    80
    A rip-roaringly varied listen. [Dec 2017, p.109]
  4. Sep 21, 2017
    78
    It’s refreshing to know there are bands like METZ putting out such quality rage like the 11 songs on this most exceptionally enthralling hello for today’s youth to thrash along to with the same sense of reckless abandon their parents were able to extol as members of the Sub Pop Singles Club.
  5. Magnet
    Sep 18, 2017
    75
    Minus interludes and meandering artsy filler, many of the 11 tracks take fine-grain sandpaper to noise rock's jagged edges. [No. 146, p.57]
  6. Sep 21, 2017
    70
    Strange Peace is about finding even a semblance of mental calm when everything seems awry, and hard to think of many other modern hardcore bands who could accomplish this with such genuine physicality.
  7. Sep 18, 2017
    60
    Truth be told, Strange Peace’s series of succinct bludgeonings are more a case of ain’t-broke-don’t-fix and the appointment of likeminded racket fetishist Steve Albini as producer comes less as a surprise than foregone conclusion.

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