Embrace (English band)
| Embrace | |
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 Embrace 2005 in Leeds |
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| General information | |
| origin | Bailiff Bridge , West Yorkshire , England |
| Genre (s) | Britpop , indie rock |
| founding | 1995 |
| Website | www.embrace.co.uk |
| Founding members | |
| Danny McNamara | |
guitar |
Richard McNamara |
| Michael Heaton | |
| Steven Firth | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Danny McNamara |
guitar |
Richard McNamara |
Drums |
Michael Heaton |
bass |
Steven Firth |
| Mick Dale (since 2001) | |
Embrace is a British band from Leeds , Huddersfield and Bradford . The band's style can be roughly described as Britpop in a mixture of Oasis and Coldplay .
Band history
The band was founded in the mid-1990s by the brothers Danny and Richard McNamara, who then found drummer Michael Heaton and bassist Steven Firth through a newspaper advertisement. After Richard McNamara had written the song Retread , the band managed to negotiate record deals with Hut Recordings ( Virgin Group ) and DGC Records in 1996. Their debut single All You Good Good People was released in February 1997 or the Independent - record label Fierce Panda . Several successful EPs followed , two of which made it into the top ten of the UK charts, and a nomination for the Brit Award for best newcomer. In 1998 the debut album The Good Will Out was released , which debuted at number one and reached platinum status. This was followed by two more albums, Drawn from Memory (2000) and If You've Never Been (2001), which also made it into the top ten and produced a total of six top 40 hits. Although the band was already known as the "savior of Britpop" and "the new Oasis " in the late 1990s and was expanded to include keyboardist Mick Dale, they could no longer match the success of their debut album, despite a record deal with DGC Records in the US could not gain a foothold outside the UK. They also fell out with the record company and lost their record deal after releasing a best-of album in 2001.
Three years later, the comeback came with the top ten single Gravity , which was written by Coldplay singer Chris Martin . With the song he showed his friendship and gratitude towards Embrace, who were instrumental in the initial success of Coldplay, as they had included Coldplay in their stage program in the mid-nineties as a support act. The album Out of Nothing (Engl. Out of nowhere ) followed. It became their second number one and platinum album and was the only one of their albums to also make it into the charts in Germany.
After the successful comeback, the band followed up with another studio album called This New Day in the spring of 2006 , which again reached number one on the British charts. The first single was Nature's Law , with a number two placement, their biggest single hit. At the beginning of June 2006 the band released World at Your Feet, the official World Cup song for the English national football team. It came to number three on the charts.
In the following years, the band took a break in which the musicians pursued other projects. Mickey Dale founded the band Talk to Angels as a side project and Mike Heaton opened a drum school. It wasn't until 2011 that they got back together to record new material and it was another three years before the next release came with the album Embrace . The band's style had been modernized and their music showed more electronic elements. In April 2014 it reached number five on the charts.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
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 UK
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| 1998 | The Good Will Out | - |
UK1  (21 weeks)UK |
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| 2000 | Drawn from Memory | - |
UK8th  (13 weeks)UK |
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| 2001 | If you've never been | - |
UK9  (3 weeks)UK |
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| 2002 | Fireworks - Singles 1997-2002 | - |
UK36 (2 weeks)UK |
compilation
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| 2004 | Out of nothing |
DE86 (1 week) DE |
UK1 (30 weeks)UK |
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| 2006 | This New Day | - |
UK1 (12 weeks)UK |
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| 2014 | Embrace | - |
UK5 (4 weeks) UK |
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| 2018 | Love is a basic need | - |
UK5 (1 week) UK |
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More albums
- Dry Kids (B-Sides 1997-2005) (2005)
EPs
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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UK
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| 1997 | Fireworks |
UK34 (2 weeks) UK |
EP, contains the titles: The Last Gas , Now You're Nobody , Blind , Fireworks
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| One big family |
UK21 (3 weeks) UK |
EP, contains the titles: One Big Family , Dry Kids , You've Only Got to Stop to Get Better , Butter Wouldn't Melt
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| All You Good Good People |
UK8 (4 weeks) UK |
EP, contains the titles: All You Good Good People , You Don't Amount to Anything , The Way I Do , Free Ride
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| 1998 | Come back to what you know |
UK6 (8 weeks) UK |
EP, contains the titles: Come Back to What You Know , Love Is Back , If You Feel Like a Sinner , Perfect Way
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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UK
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| 1999 | My Weakness Is None of Your Business The Good Will Out |
UK9 (4 weeks) UK |
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| Hooligan Drawn from Memory |
UK18 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 2000 | You're Not Alone Drawn from Memory |
UK14 (3 weeks) UK |
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| Save Me Drawn from Memory |
UK29 (3 weeks) UK |
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| I Wouldn't Wanna Happen to You Drawn from Memory |
UK23 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 2001 | Wonder If You've Never Been |
UK14 (4 weeks) UK |
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| Make It Last If You've Never Been |
UK35 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 2004 | Gravity Out of Nothing |
UK7th (7 weeks)UK |
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| Ashes Out of Nothing |
UK11 (8 weeks) UK |
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| 2005 | Looking as You Are Out of Nothing |
UK11 (3 weeks) UK |
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| A Glorious Day Out of Nothing |
UK28 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 2006 | Nature's Law This New Day |
UK2 (10 weeks) UK |
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| World at Your Feet This New Day |
UK3 (6 weeks) UK |
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| Target This New Day |
UK29 (1 week) UK |
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| I Can't Come Down This New Day |
UK54 (1 week) UK |
More singles
- All You Good Good People 7 " (1996)
- Follow You Home (2014)
- Refugees (2014)
Web links
- Official website
- Embrace at Allmusic (English)
- Embrace at Discogs (English)