VANT - Peace & Love

VANT serve their politics like a garbage truck dumping bags. There’s no compromise, no chance of seeing past Mattie Vant’s bold statements. In the past, he’s been brutally upfront. “You know the USA will take and never give back,” he barked on ‘The Answer’. ‘Fly-By Alien’, meanwhile, chanted about how the “dying sun” was a “tick tock time bomb.” Cryptic messages, these are not. A moment’s hesitation would be a wasted breath, in their books.

For all the apocalyptic tone of their early singles, ’Peace & Love’ spins a positive message. Both peace and love are two things missing from current conversation, the band claim. Again, a simple statement that’s been delivered a thousand times before. But it bears repeating, especially when it’s filtered into a headrush, hook-stuffed single such as this.