Artificial Peace was a band from Bethesda, MD who were around in the early 80s. I'd heard the name from the classic 'Flex Your Head' compilation, but knew nothing else about them. Well, it turns out that there isn't really much to know. They recorded 17 songs in 1981 (three of which ended up on 'Flex Your Head') and in 1982 they broke up. Back in 2010 DIschord released all 17 songs as a record titled 'Complete Session Nov '81', and then a year or so ago it got repressed on red vinyl, and somehow this made it onto my radar, and it seemed worth picking up.
This is the kind of thing that Dischord does so well, providing a permanent record of a very short lived band from a long time ago. And as you would expect from Dischord, the recording and sound quality is great. Seventeen songs seems like too many to get through, but what helps is that the whole thing is done in 19 minutes as quite a few songs come in at about 45 seconds, with the longest being 2 minutes 17 seconds. There's certainly no time to get bored here.
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