‘Come Back To What You Know’: Embrace Return
Clearly not interested in waiting for more hand-outs from Chris Martin, Embrace have revealed they considered giving up (again), but instead have written a new album in just over a week. Despite saying they’d never top ‘Out Of Nothing’, ‘Exploding Machines’ will apparently render their back-catalogue obsolete. Strong words, Mr. McNamara…
Embrace have confirmed they have a new album in the pipeline entitled ‘Exploding Machines’ recorded in just over a week during a recent recording session in Spain.
Writing on the band’s website, singer Danny McNamara explained,
“When we finished our last album I really thought it was going to be our last. We were really proud of what we'd done but ultimately I thought it was too late for us. Bands rarely get a second chance. But this year has been without doubt the best the band have ever had.
“I said when we finished ‘Out Of Nothing’ that we wouldn't make a better album. I didn't know how we were going to be able to do it. After spending three years hunched over an acoustic guitar I couldn't face a blank page again. Just as we were at our most successful I was seriously considering giving it all up.
“So when Andy our label man said that we should go into Youth's studio in Spain and start album five I wished I lived on the moon. I've no idea what happened in Spain but basically we wrote most of the album in nine days.
“For the first time in my life I felt like I was born to do this. In those nine days we started writing as a band and something changed. I won't go on about what it sounds like, it's too easy for bands to say the newest thing they've done is their best. But what I will say is that in nine days we've rendered almost all our back catalogue obsolete.”
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