London-born, Surrey-raised Master Peace grew up on UK rap with his friends and Arctic Monkeys and Bloc Party at home, and he’s said it was Busted and McFly on TV that first made him want to do this for a living. The sound he built out of all of it, rap cadences thrown over dance-punk guitars and club drums, is one he was calling indie-electroclash before anybody had settled on indie sleaze, as he told FAULT in October 2026, and the reference list behind it runs from M.I.A. and Santigold through LCD Soundsystem and Justice to early Calvin Harris.
Peace Okezie started out in a rap group before going solo, and the early singles kept a foot in both camps, with “The Lift” in 2018 rapping over a-ha’s “Take On Me” and “Night Time” bringing in Jme and a co-sign from Skepta. Mike Skinner had him on The Streets’ “Wrong Answers Only” in 2022, the same year he sat down with the classic debut albums to work out what made them last.
His own debut, How To Make A Master Peace, came out in 2024, produced with Matty Schwartz (YUNGBLUD, KSI) and pitched by Peace himself as a “cultural reset for Gen Z kids”, with Georgia on “I Might Be Fake”. Within months he had Santigold on “Santiladang”, a rework of a song from the record, telling Metal Magazine she was “the original trailblazer and blueprint to this sound”, and Wale was on the single “Home”. The Ivors gave him their Rising Star award that year, and that summer he was out at Glastonbury with The Streets for “Wrong Answers Only”.
Franz Ferdinand took him on their UK and US tours in 2025, and the “Hooked” he played with them at Glasgow’s Barrowlands came out as a single, backed with a “Build It Up” featuring Johnny Marr. In the studio he was cutting singles with Dan Carey, the Speedy Wunderground producer behind Fontaines D.C. and Wet Leg, and Declan McKenna came in on the Stupid Kids EP before 5 Seconds of Summer took him round Europe’s arenas.
The second album, if i don’t love you, who will ?, is the more inward of the two, “a lot warmer”, as he put it to Clash. He made it with Her’s on heavy rotation, chasing the Liverpool duo’s “feel-good, bedroom-pop, indie energy”, and with Mac DeMarco, Cocteau Twins, Steve Lacy and Tiny Habits in the mix, Drake as the reference for swagger, and Muni Long bringing the R&B to “act like you know ?”.
“ONE of ONE” was produced by Jeremy Schmett and Imad Royal, who has Doja Cat’s “Boss Bitch” and Benson Boone’s “My Greatest Fear” on his CV (Benson played this roof back in 2022), and up here Peace gives it the full frontman treatment, working the deck on a handheld mic with his guitarist beside him.
“sucker punch !” goes the other way, a stripped-back single that up here he plays planted at the mic stand. He takes the album on a European headline run from February 2027, taking in Lisbon and London.
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