Released 26 August 2022
UK Tour – including biggest London show for 17 years.
Embrace have announced their eighth studio album How To Be A Person Like Other People will be released on 26 August 2022 on their own Mo’betta label through Townsend Music.
Produced by Richard McNamara, the new album is the follow-up to the band’s 2018 Top 5 album Love Is A Basic Need.
Talking about the album, Richard said “Whenever we put out a new album it’s always a really big deal to us, we put everything we have into it. We know that there’s something about what we do that people love, that they just don’t get from others bands. It’s like a pact, they want us to be intimate and personal and autobiographical, but they also want us to be confident and rousing and anthemic. It sounds like a contradiction, but I think when we’re at our best we somehow pull it off. I think in that sense this album is the most Embrace album we’ve ever made”.
On the subject of the album title, Danny McNamara said “I met my wife nearly ten years ago now, we have an incredible daughter and another on the way, but the most loving thing she’s done for me over the years is to try to show me how to love, how to feel, how to be a person like other people. This album is about that journey, that story, and it’s the most joyous, most uplifting, most upbeat, most soulful thing we’ve ever done. I can’t wait for everyone to hear it”.
How To Be A Person Like Other People is available to pre-order now from https://embrace.tmstor.es/
Meanwhile the band have announced tour dates in support of the new album, including their biggest London show in over 17 years at Brixton Academy on Friday 9th September, a venue the band last played in 2005.
Talking about the tour Danny McNamara said, “After being away for so long we can’t wait to get out there and play live again. Our last proper gigs were among the very last before lockdown, so it’s felt like an age. To be playing in the bigger places again is amazing too. Embrace has always been as much about the crowd as it is about the band so I’m sure it’s going to be epic!”
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am from www.gigsandtours.com.
Full tour dates as follows;
August
31 – Aberdeen Music Hall
September
1 – Edinburgh O2 Academy2 – Newcastle Northumbria University3 – Nottingham Rock City4 – Sheffield O2 Academy6 – Cardiff Tramshed8 – Birmingham O2 Institute9 – London Brixton Academy10 – Manchester O2 Apollo11 – Norwich University of East Anglia
Support on all dates comes from Lottery Winners.
How To Be A Person Like Other People track listing 1 Death Is Not The End2 We Are It3 Up4 Remember Me5 The Terms Of My Surrender6 Run Away With Me7 Rubble8 How To Be A Person Like Other People9 I Miss You10 For Kate
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
