Some Kind of Peace [Deluxe]

With 2018's re:member, composer Olafur Arnalds pushed technological boundaries, using custom software and an algorithm as a major part of its design to trigger two player pianos with his own live keyboard work. The album's blue-shaded cover art suggested the paper punch-hole patterns of such programming. Two years later, some kind of peace features a similarly blue-tinted cover, this time a close-up of Arnalds' face. A more-personal album inspired by a friend's comment that we can't control what life brings, only our own reactions to it, its songs share themes of human vulnerability. There's still an electronic presence on the album, which also relies heavily on piano as well as strings. The twinkling first track, "Loom," is one of three collaborative entries, this one featuring electronic artist Bonobo. Soft, distorted keyboard and bell-like piano timbres, bass, and high-pitched voice samples paint a wistful, rhythmic harmonic palette on the song, which closes on the delicate interpla