Embrace (American band Embrace album)
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| Studio album by Embrace | |
| Released | September 1987 |
| Recorded | November 1985 – February 1986 |
| Studio | Inner Ear |
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| Length | 33:18 |
| Language | English |
| Label | Dischord |
| Producer | Embrace Ian MacKaye Edward Janney |
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1992 CD reissue cover.
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| Source | Rating |
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| LAS Magazine | Favorable |
Embrace is the debut album and the only release by the American post-hardcore band Embrace.
The record, an underappreciated treasure in the Dischord catalog, consists of songs composed and performed in the context of Washington, D.C.'s 1985 Revolution Summer by one of its mainstay acts. Although recorded between November 1985 and February 1986, the album would not be released until 1987, after the demise of that social movement and the dissolution of the band.
Embrace was compiled from the only two studio sessions the band recorded. The first eleven tracks were laid down in November 1985, while the other three were done in February 1986. All of the songs were recorded by the same lineup at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, with Don Zientara as audio engineer.
The album was released in September 1987 on Dischord Records, in LP format.
Though not "as gripping or inventive" as that of Fugazi's, the music in the record, "as a vehicle for [Ian MacKaye's] righteous, cutting lyrics and strong voice", is "more than fine", according to reviewer Ned Raggett, who has described it as having production values that switched around from the "usual domination via guitar" with an emphasis on Ivor Hanson's drums, while has compared the work of guitarist Michael Hampton with John McGeoch's early work with post-punk bands Magazine and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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