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Track List
01) The Finish Line
02) Never
03) Wake Up Call
04) Snake Oil
05) Where You Sleeping
06) All That Remains
07) Rabbit Hole
08) Horseshoe In My Glove
09) My Luck Comes In Threes
10) Love Is a Basic Need
01) The Finish Line
02) Never
03) Wake Up Call
04) Snake Oil
05) Where You Sleeping
06) All That Remains
07) Rabbit Hole
08) Horseshoe In My Glove
09) My Luck Comes In Threes
10) Love Is a Basic Need
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First Released
2018
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Good Natured
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"Love Is a Basic Need" is the seventh studio album by English rock band Embrace. It was released on 2 March 2018 through Cooking Vinyl.
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Chris Martin. The Coldplay man is a mate of the McNamara brothers and offered them the ballad Gravity for their first 'comeback' in 2004. It was a hit, set Embrace back up for a shot at the title and sent them down a path that they've never truly veered from since. Piano-led and strings-assisted lullabies have become the band's stock-in-trade and moments of rock'n'roll are few and far between on Embrace records this century.
Love is a Basic Need goes even further into reflective territory with singer Danny McNamara hitting the top of his range on every tune. When it works, on the likes of The Finish Line and My Luck Comes in Threes, the band sound like they're flying, but just sometimes you wish they'd try for some light with the shade and perhaps hover for a while. Stand-out track Where You Sleeping pulls this trick off, with guitarist Richard McNamara taking over lead vocal duties, as the tune floats into view on a bed of modern-day U2 production and a tense melody. It's beautiful.
With too many attempts at hitting the biggest of big ballad highs, Love is a Basic Need buckles under the weight of its own ambition too many times. However, there's enough good music here to suggest that one day, the great in Embrace will eventually outweigh the good.
Rviewed by Alan O'Hare for .theskinny.co.uk.
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"Love Is a Basic Need" is the seventh studio album by English rock band Embrace. It was released on 2 March 2018 through Cooking Vinyl.
User Album Review
Chris Martin. The Coldplay man is a mate of the McNamara brothers and offered them the ballad Gravity for their first 'comeback' in 2004. It was a hit, set Embrace back up for a shot at the title and sent them down a path that they've never truly veered from since. Piano-led and strings-assisted lullabies have become the band's stock-in-trade and moments of rock'n'roll are few and far between on Embrace records this century.
Love is a Basic Need goes even further into reflective territory with singer Danny McNamara hitting the top of his range on every tune. When it works, on the likes of The Finish Line and My Luck Comes in Threes, the band sound like they're flying, but just sometimes you wish they'd try for some light with the shade and perhaps hover for a while. Stand-out track Where You Sleeping pulls this trick off, with guitarist Richard McNamara taking over lead vocal duties, as the tune floats into view on a bed of modern-day U2 production and a tense melody. It's beautiful.
With too many attempts at hitting the biggest of big ballad highs, Love is a Basic Need buckles under the weight of its own ambition too many times. However, there's enough good music here to suggest that one day, the great in Embrace will eventually outweigh the good.
Rviewed by Alan O'Hare for .theskinny.co.uk.
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