Embrace - Embrace

A hard to find album from Embrace. Don’t worry it’s not the whinging Oasis-like Britpop band Embrace, but the Washington, D.C punk band Ian MacKaye was in after Minor Threat and before Fugazi.

Embrace was a short-lived post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C., which lasted from the summer of 1985 to the spring of 1986 and was one of the first bands to be dubbed in the press as emotive hardcore, though the members had rejected the term since its creation.

The band included Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat with three former members of his brother Alec’s band The Faith: guitarist Michael Hampton, drummer Ivor Hanson, and bassist Chris Bald. The only recording released by the quartet was their self-titled album Embrace.

Following the breakup of Embrace, MacKaye rejoined former Minor Threat drummer Jeff Nelson to form Egg Hunt. Bald moved on to the band Ignition, and drummer Ivor Hanson paired up with Hampton again in 1992 for Manifesto.

During the band’s formative years, some fans started referring to their and fellow innovators Rites of Spring’s music as emocore, a term vocalist Ian MacKaye publicly disagreed with

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The LP Embrace was their only album and was released in 1987.

The LP was compiled from the only two studio sessions the band recorded. The first eleven tracks were laid down in November 1985, and the other three were done in February 1986. All of the songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios and featured the same lineup.

Originally released on cassette tape and vinyl, it was released on CD in 1992 as Dischord number 24CD. In May 2002, the CD was re-mastered with two extra tracks, previously unreleased alternate versions of “Money” and “Dance of Days” taken from the first recording session.



Genre: Hardcore
Year: 1987




Tracklist:

01. Give Me Back
02. Dance of Days
03. Building
04. Past
05. Spoke’
06. Do Not Consider Yourself Free
07. No More Pain
08. I Wish I
09. Said Gun
10. Can’t Forgive
11. Money
12. If I Never Thought About It
13. End of a Year
14. Last Song




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