Peace in Our Time is a one-man musical project from Uppsala, Sweden. The only member of the band is Johan Regnér. He bought his first guitar when he was 16 years old and still lived in his hometown Jönköping. He and two friends formed a band (Nova Caine) and played together for almost three years. During 2004 the band split up and its members moved to different cities. Johan moved to Uppsala and decided to start a project of his own. The first song was recorded in June -05, using only a drum machine and an acoustic guitar to create his melodic lo-fi indie pop. Since then he has recorded another 50 songs and released some of them on the "A way to pass the time EP" (Music Is My Girlfriend), the "Some nice and decent thoughts EP" (self-released) and the 3" Cloudberry-single "Tiger".
Influences:
The Mountain Goats, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Modest Mouse, Jens Lekman & The Radio Dept.
Quotes:
"Peace in Our Time is a one-man musical project from Uppsala (Sweden) that plays wonderful popmusic with his acoustic guitar and drummachine." (Music is My Girlfriend)
"PIOT have a sweet sound, the lead singer, and I suppose only real member of the band, has a beautiful voice and a way with words." (Swedesplease.net)
"This new song is lofi brilliance." (Swedesplease.net)
"It is a one man constilation making lovely music in the bedroom with a guitar and a drum-machine. And if you ask me, it is great!" (The Power of Twee, blog)
"This is lo-fi indie pop at it's finest. Although Regnér has plenty of influences he manages not to sound like a single one. If acoustic, lo-fi and sometimes folkish indie pop is your thing give Peace In Our Time a listen." (Indie MP3 – Keeping C86 Alive)
"The Jönköping project of Johan Regnér sounds pretty much essential for the well-being of those in possession of some inner twee desires." (mp3hugger.com)
"This band is actually a solo project from a fellow named Johan, who writes quiet and lonely acoustic pop songs. I'm normally not too fond of lonely acoustic pop, but Johan's songs are short and simple, and better-sounding than most records of this sort." (indiepages.com)
"Lovely lofi-indiepop." (Hits in the car, blog)
Past shows:
25/11-05: Stockholm, Ove med skägget (with Cats on Fire + The Silian Rail).
10/5-06: Uppsala, Ungdomens hus.
22/7-06: Kroksjö, Kroksjöfestivalen (with Naimi, Vapnet, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, etc).
