Embrace / Album Release Day
LOVE IS A BASIC NEED LP | 2 March 2018 | Cooking Vinyl
EMBRACE have today released their new album, LOVE IS A BASIC NEED, and revealed an exclusive short film, which features performance videos for selected album tracks and interviews with the band. You can watch it here.
20 years into their recording career, EMBRACE is making an epic and emphatic return with their seventh studio album. With three previous Number One albums, six Top 10 singles, sold out arena shows and over two million album sales behind them, EMBRACE returned triumphantly three years ago with their Top 5 self-titled LP. Already hailed as a return to classic EMBRACE, the new album was recorded in 2017 at their own Magnetic North Studio and produced by the band’s Richard McNamara.
Recent single, NEVER, currently on the BBC Radio 2 playlist, is the lead single into the album and features a duet between DANNY MCNAMARA and KERRI WATT, which they debuted in front of over 70,000 people at Cardiff Millennium Stadium during shows with Coldplay last year. The video for NEVER is available to watch here.
With tracks such as the emotive string-laden ballads THE FINISH LINE and ALL THAT REMAINS and the instant WAKE UP CALL, the album sees EMBRACE return to the classic sound that first made us first fall in love with them. The album’s overriding theme is one surrounding love, as Danny says:
“Most people remember to eat, breathe and drink, but too many of us forget about love until it’s too late. The album is about the realisation that without food or water or shelter you die, but the same is also true of love. We set out to make an album where every song on it would stand up against the best songs we’ve ever written, and I’m pretty confident we’ve done just that.”
Following recent stadium support dates with COLDPLAY, as well as establishing and performing at their own award-winning Secret Festival, EMBRACE recently played a short run of intimate shows, where they previewed songs from the album. They have now announced a full UK tour for March and April along with several summer festival performances.
Full dates as follows:
MARCH
Wed 28 GLASGOW O2 Academy
Thu 29 NEWCASTLE Northumbria Institute
Fri 30 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Sat 31 MANCHESTER O2 Ritz | SOLD OUT
APRIL
Sun 01 CARDIFF Tramshed
Mon 02 SOUTHAMPTON Engine Rooms
Wed 04 NORWICH Epic
Thu 05 BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
Fri 06 LONDON O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Sat 07 LEEDS O2 Academy
MAY
Sat 19 LANCASTER Skiddle Festival
AUGUST
Sun 26 PORTSMOUTH Victorious Festival
SEPTEMBER
Sun 02 KNEBWORTH Cool Britannia Festival
LOVE IS A BASIC NEED TRACK LISTING:
- THE FINISH LINE
- NEVER
- WAKE UP CALL
- SNAKE OIL
- WHERE YOU SLEEPING
- ALL THAT REMAINS
- RABBIT HOLE
- HORSESHOE IN MY GLOVE
- MY LUCK COMES IN THREES
- LOVE IS A BASIC NEED
Buy LOVE IS A BASIC NEED here: https://embrace.lnk.to/liabn
And there are exclusive signed items and special bundles are available through the official EMBRACE store here: https://embrace.tmstor.es/
EMBRACE is:
DANNY MCNAMARA | vocals
RICHARD MCNAMARA | guitar
STEVE FIRTH | bass
MICKEY DALE | keyboards
MIKE HEATON | drums
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