THE days of bands releasing at least one album a year in the 1960s have long since been replaced by the two-year album/tour cycle.

But when Peace came to the end of promotional duties for last year’s debut In Love in November, drummer Dominic Boyce says there was a desire to just keep going.

“Over the last 18 months of touring Harry [Koisser, guitarist and vocalist] had been writing at the same time,” says Boyce as the band prepares to play Kendall’s Brewery Arts Centre.

“Just before Christmas he felt like he was ready to start again, and we were ready too. What’s the point in waiting around?”

Lead single Money, released on Monday, underlined the creative energy the band was experiencing. The band had initially gone into the studio in November to write, but within days had finished the song.

“You can really hear the release of energy and excitement we’ve had ever since we left the studio after doing the first album,” he says.

Lyrically the song has grown out of the band’s experiences in the modern pop music world.

“None of us were from a great deal of wealth,” says Boyce. “We have found ourselves in situations where we are surrounded by money, and people focused purely on money, something which is very alien to us.”

For this second album Boyce admits the band has experimented a little more, particularly with sampled beats and drum loops.

“Our producer Jim Abbiss did a lot of house and dance music in the 1990s,” says Boyce. “He was really keen on us using sampled beats when we did the first album but I was quite against it. I thought if there are drums on a track it should be me playing them, not someone else or a computer.

“On Money it’s me playing drums, but there is a shuffle from a sampled drum loop. I’ve learned not to be so stubborn – you can create some really cool sounds.”

The band has gained a little confidence in the studio.

“It can make you a bit nervous when you’ve got people listening to you through the glass and examining what you’re doing,” he says. "It’s embarrassing when you mess up – but we’ve got over that for the second album. It’s about having confidence to try things out – everyone is there to get the best out of you.”

The idea of giving up the studio for DIY bedroom recordings was never an option.

“We see the romantic side of the studio,” says Boyce, adding the album was recorded in the legendary Dean Street Studios, formerly home to recordings by David Bowie, T-Rex and Thin Lizzy, and Island founder Chris Blackwell’s SARM Studios.

“We’ve never had that ethos of an underground DIY punk band – we do have a bigger picture and search for that big sound.”

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