Embrace Announce New Album 'How To Be A Person Like Other People' And Autumn UK Tour
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Written by Laura Johnson
Embrace have announced a new album and UK tour.
The English indie-rockers will release 'How To Be A Person Like Other People', the follow-up to 2018's 'Love Is A Basic Need', on August 26. The record was produced by the band's lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Richard McNamara, who 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.”
Commenting on the album's title, vocalist 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.”
They'll support their eighth LP with a headline UK tour that will kick off on August 31 in Aberdeen and run until September 11, where it will conclude in Norwich. The run will also include a show at the O2 Academy Brixton, marking their biggest headline London show in 17 years. Danny added:
“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 at 9am on April 22.
Embrace Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu June 23 2022 - GLASGOW Kelvingrove Bandstand
Wed August 31 2022 - ABERDEEN Aberdeen Music Hall
Thu September 01 2022 - EDINBURGH O2 Academy Edinburgh
Fri September 02 2022 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE University of Northumbria
Sat September 03 2022 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Sun September 04 2022 - SHEFFIELD O2 Academy Sheffield
Tue September 06 2022 - CARDIFF Tramshed
Thu September 08 2022 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
Fri September 09 2022 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Sat September 10 2022 - MANCHESTER O2 Apollo
Sun September 11 2022 - NORWICH U.E.A (University Of East Anglia)
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