Release the Peace

Description

Release the Peace is an album by the British alternative pop band Lies Damned Lies, independently released on Sticky Music in 1994. (Release the Peace was first broadcast on November 13, 1994 and is released by arrangement with BBC Worldwide Ltd.) The album was produced by Lies Damned Lies and Michael Wakelin.

Music written, recorded, and performed by Lies Damned Lies (Dot Reid, Charlie Irvine and Steve Butler), and published by Sticky Music except for: “Release The Peace” (guest vocal by Christine Doherty), “God Give Us Peace” (written by Doug Gay), and “We Are Our One Hope” (written and arranged by Andy Thornton). Guest vocal by Hazel Taylor. Readings by Ashley Collishaw and Moyna McGlynn. Additional programming by David McTeagu.

Lies Damned Lies is an alternative rock band from England that doesn’t get near the attention they deserve here in the states. They were actually signed to a major label (Siren Records) for a while. This album was after that and a few albums for Sticky Music. It came out between The Human Dress in 1993 and Greatest Bits in 1995. This is a different but pretty cool album for the band – a radio special that was meant to be one continuous hour long music experience full of samples, quotes, music loops, and experiments. I took a guess as to where to make the song breaks, as the songs meld into each other. The liner notes had this to say about the tape:

“In 1994 Radio One commissioned Lies Damned Lies and producer Michael Wakelin to create a one hour ‘special’ for Remembrance Sunday. The result is Release The Peace. Taking the shape of a service of worship, and using radio news fragments, poetry, and specially written music, the programme looks at war through the eyes of different people – it’s victims, those who look to it for liberation, those who oppose it completely, and those who lay down their lives in it. The music runs continuously throughout the hour, providing an emotional backdrop for these themes.”

Its a pretty cool tape on its own, which unfortunately is a bit hard to find these days. [Christian Tape Underground, January 5, 2020]

Cassette tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Release the Peace 1”
A2. “All of This is True”
A3. “Kyrie”
A4. “Absolution”
A5. “Weep With Those Who Weep”

Side Two
B1. “Release the Peace 2”
B2. “God Give Us Peace”
B3. “I Did This for You”
B4. “We are Our One Hope of Peace”