Two years ago the debut from young West Midlands four-piece Peace was hailed in some quarters as the very essence of 2013. That seemed to be overstating the case for what were essentially reheated baggy leftovers skilfully marketed at people who hadn’t yet been born in 1990. The follow-up finds their historical odyssey moving on very slightly – in between the lumpen EMF and Stone Roses parodies, Someday sounds like something from 1995, specifically Oasis’s Cast No Shadow. Throughout, there’s a wearying feel of vanilla indie designed by committee, with barely an original idea between its 10 tracks of chirpy inconsequence. The trite lyrics do little to help. Particularly clumsy is Money, wherein Harrison Koisser wonders: “Money, do you need it?/ Do you eat it when you’re hungry?” like a man still struggling to get beyond the concept of a barter economy.
