Peace (Vista Chino album)

Peace is the debut album by American rock band Vista Chino, featuring three former members of Kyuss (Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri and John Garcia), along with new guitarist Bruno Fevery. The album was released on September 3, 2013.

Peace
Studio album by Vista Chino
Released	September 3, 2013
Recorded	Jalamanta Studios, Joshua Tree, California
Genre	Stoner rock, heavy metal
Length	57:22
Label	Napalm Records
Producer	Brant Bjork

The album peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Heatseekers Album chart.[1]

Background

Originally known as Kyuss Lives!, the band was forced to change their name to Vista Chino before releasing the album.[2]

Guest appearances on Peace include Mike Dean of Corrosion of Conformity and former Kyuss bassist Chris Cockrell who appear on one track each.[3]

Napalm Records released the record on 2xLP in colored versions of red, green, blue, orange, gold, bone and black,[4] along with a limited edition digipak version of the CD featuring two bonus tracks.[5]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[6]
MetalSucks	[7]
The Rockpit	[8]
The Sydney Morning Herald	[9]
Metal Hammer	[10]
Blabbermouth	8.5/10[11]
CraveOnline	5/10[12]
Exclaim!	8/10[13]
PopMatters	6/10[14]
Ultimate Guitar	9.3/10[15]

The Aquarian praised the album saying, "Peace not only captures much of what was so groundbreaking in Kyuss' approach, but expands the scope and gives a modern impression."[16]

East Bay Express proclaimed "The dynamism between meandering, clean passages and desperately surging crunch is the best I've heard in a while."[17]

Spin noted "Garcia and Bjork still have that Kyuss character in spades on their debut, Peace, writing bulldozing stoner anthems that live up to the legend of their former band."[18]

Magnet Magazine placed Peace No. 1 on their best hard rock albums of 2013.[19]

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles writer Greg Prato selected "Peace" as No. 6 for his Top 10 of 2013 for "The Scribes Speak" poll.[20]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Brant Bjork and John Garcia. Music is written mainly by Brant Bjork, with additional help from Bruno Fevery.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Good Morning Wasteland"	0:59
2.	"Dargona Dragona"	4:47
3.	"Sweet Remain"	3:10
4.	"As You Wish"	5:01
5.	"Planets 1 & 2"	6:32
6.	"Adara"	4:39
7.	"Más Vino"	1:26
8.	"Dark and Lovely"	6:14
9.	"Barcelonian"	3:31
10.	"Acidize... The Gambling Moose"	13:00

Bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Carnation"	4:14
12.	"Sunlight at Midnight"	3:49

Personnel

Vista Chino John Garcia – vocals Bruno Fevery – guitar Nick Oliveri – bass Brant Bjork – drums, backing vocals (lead Vocals and bass on "Planet 1") Guest musicians Mike Dean – bass on "As You Wish" Tom Brayton – additional percussion Chris Cockrell (Vic Du Monte) – harmonica on "The Gambling Moose"

Production Brant Bjork – production Harper Hug and Trevor Whatever – engineering/mixing Adrian Medel – assistant engineer J.J. Golden – mastering The Date Farmers, Carlos Ramirez, and Armando Lerma – album artwork Alex Rauch – layout editing Richard Sibbald – photography

Charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[21]	60
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[22]	47
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[23]	111
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[24]	67
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[25]	37
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[26]	42
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[27]	66
US Top Heatseekers[1]	14

References

1. "Heatseekers Albums: September 21, 2013". Billboard. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
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5. "Vista Chino - Peace LTD/Digipak". Napalm Records. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
6. Lyons, Todd. "Vista Chino - Peace Music Review". About.com. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
7. Vidal, Gore (August 15, 2013). "Review: Vista Chino - Peace". Metalsucks. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
8. Diggins, Mark (September 3, 2013). "Review: CD Vista Chino - Peace Album". The Rockpit. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
9. Woodward, Brett (October 4, 2013). "Review: CD Vista Chino - Peace Album". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
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12. "Review: Vista Chino - Peace". CraveOnline. September 3, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
13. Walschots, Natalie Zina (August 23, 2013). "Review: Vista Chino - Peace". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
14. Brown, Dean (September 4, 2013). "Review: Vista Chino:Peace". PopMatters. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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16. "Vista Chino - Peace". The Aquarian. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
17. "Vista Chino - Peace". East Bay Express. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
18. "Album of the Week: Vista Chino - Peace". Spin. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
19. "Best Of 2013: Hard Rock". Magnet Magazine. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
20. "2013 … The Scribes Speak". Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
21. "Austriancharts.at – Vista Chino – Peace" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
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