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.
“Their
whiplash of distortion is made with precision, a contained chaos. But
you would never talk about them like that. Because METZ are not
something you study or analyze,” wrote Liisa Ladouceur in Exclaim! “They
are something you feel: a transfer of energy, pure and simple.” In
other words: to feel something, fiercely and intensely, but together,
not alone.