Embrace (English band Embrace album)

Embrace
Studio album by
Embrace
Released25 April 2014
RecordedAugust 2011 – January 2014 at
Magnetic North Studios
(Halifax, England)
GenreAlternative rock
Length46:22
LabelCooking Vinyl
ProducerRichard McNamara
Embrace chronology
This New Day
(2006) 		Embrace
(2014) 		Love Is a Basic Need
(2018)
Singles from Embrace
  1. "Refugees"
    Released: 13 January 2014 (radio)
  2. "Follow You Home"
    Released: 21 April 2014
  3. "I Run"
    Released: 30 June 2014
  4. "In the End"
    Released: 29 December 2014

Embrace is the eponymously titled sixth studio album by English alternative rock band Embrace. The album, produced by vocalist Richard McNamara, was released on 25 April 2014 in Friday-release countries and on 28 April 2014 in the United Kingdom by independent record label Cooking Vinyl. The album was the band's first in eight years, after the release of their fifth studio album This New Day in 2006.

Embrace, created with a goal to outdo their debut studio album, the critically acclaimed The Good Will Out, features a return to the band's original form, dropping the post-britpop influenced and commercially accessible sounds of their previous two albums, Out of Nothing and This New Day. On this album, the band draws influences from post-punk bands from the 1970s and 80s, with electronic instruments and sounds and further influences from hard rock music. With the creative process of the album lasting a total of three years of writing and another three years in production, Embrace was recorded at Richard McNamara's self-built Magnetic North Studios in Halifax, England.

The album was lightly promoted by the band and label Cooking Vinyl in the lead-up to its release, with the launch of the album being accompanied by a limited theatrical run of the band's live film Magnetic North. The album's release cycle is reminiscent of the release cycle of The Good Will Out, with full-length extended plays and singles with multiple tracks being released in promotion of the album, a release cycle strategy which would otherwise be an unusual in the digital age of music. The album reached number 5 in the UK albums chart.