Peaceful as Hell

Peaceful as Hell is the fourth studio album by Canadian noise pop duo Black Dresses.

[1][2][3][8] The album contains features such as heavy metal riffs, white noise, compression, and narration.

[2][3][8] It also explores themes such as apocalypse, self-knowledge, being transgender, dissociation, climate change, and social connection.

[1][2] In a positive review for Pitchfork, Leah Mandel felt the album was more accessible than previous Black Dresses albums and described it as "fun and loud as hell", concluding "Especially with the world’s hellishness currently blaring at us, every social disparity spotlighted and exacerbated, loneliness and doubt deepened to an extreme degree, Peaceful as Hell is perfect medicine.

Writing for Complex, she described the album as "incredibly sincere and very deliberate" and said that "The lyrical content can be unsettling at times, but the instrumentation gives you hope, as a listener, almost as if it is saying, "Life can be hard, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.