EMBRACE share new single 'Stop' + announce outstore release shows | New album 'Avalanche' out 12th June via Cooking Vinyl | 30th anniversary UK headline tour dates upcoming

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EMBRACE share new single 'Stop' and announce outstore release shows

New album Avalanche out 12th June via Cooking Vinyl

Watch the video for new single 'Stop' Below

Embrace will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a run of UK headline tour dates in November

Embrace recently returned with details of their ninth album Avalanche, out 12th June via Cooking Vinyl. Accompanied by lead single 'Road To Nowhere' - which found immediate support on the airwaves at BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2, as well as playlisting at Absolute Radio - it offered the first glimpse into an album that the band says feels more honest, open, and raw than anything they've done before. New single 'Stop' doubles down on a newfound freedom within the ranks, as the band hits the release valve, says goodbye to self-imposed pressures, and treasures life in the present. Also announced today is a run of outstore release shows through June, which go on sale this Friday 27th March at 10am. Full details below.

Lead singer Danny McNamara comments: "The track 'Stop' pretty much says it all. It’s the clearest statement of where my head was at when we started this record. I was thinking a lot about scale, the fact that we’re on a rock spinning through space at a million miles an hour, heading into absolute nothing, with almost no control over the big picture. One day everyone and everything we’ve ever known will just be a fine layer of calcium, and there’s nothing we can do to change that. Oddly, I don’t find that depressing. I find it freeing. If none of this is permanent, then the pressure we put on ourselves, to be better, bigger, fixed, sorted, is kind of absurd. That song is a demand, to myself as much as anyone, to stop, look around, and actually live in the moment."

For over three decades, the five-piece have been a key part of the British music scene, selling over two million albums worldwide. In addition to the new album, 2026 will see the band celebrate their 30-year milestone with a series of headline shows and festival appearances, a spoken-word theatre tour telling the story of the band, a new book, and the release of a brand-new studio album. Their hometown show this summer at the 6000-capacity Piece Hall in Halifax is already SOLD OUT.

McNamara elaborates on the themes running through the album:

'We came into this album with a really simple idea: that real, deep, honest-to-God joy doesn’t live in the big, dramatic moments we’re all taught to chase. It doesn’t live in huge, unattainable goals or impressive, life-changing achievements. It lives in the small, almost invisible flashes of magic that happen when you slow down and actually live in the moment. Lyrically, I was trying to capture those little magic moments. Ironically, I’ve spent most of my life not noticing them, and when I finally did, they all came at once — it’s been pretty overwhelming. Which I guess is why the title AVALANCHE felt so right.

There’s also a deep acceptance running through the whole record — that life is fragile, ridiculous, beautiful, terrifying, and short, all at once. Once you really sit with that, a lot of the pressure disappears. We weren’t trying to write something definitive, or sum everything up, or make any grand statement. We just wanted the songs to feel honest in the moment they were written. Ironically the less you consciously try to say something, the more you end up saying. I got out of my own way. Maybe in a way I haven’t been since the first album. Musically, that meant choosing feel over perfection. We wanted the music to sound human — rough around the edges — because the little moments of magic are never polished. You don’t build them, they just arrive. And if you’re paying attention, you might just capture something real. If you’re lucky. Lyrically, I wasn’t interested in distance or irony. I wanted to write from inside the feeling — whether that was love, panic, grief, obsession, or hope — and stay there long enough for it to tell the truth. A lot of the songs live in contradiction, but that tension felt honest.

At its core, this album came from realising that life doesn’t wait for you to be ready. It just keeps happening — and you either show up for it or you don’t. The biggest change on Avalanche is that we stopped trying to figure everything out. This album probably asks more questions than it answers. We let songs stay uncomfortable. We let them say I don’t know, I’m scared, or this might never be enough. That felt more honest, open, and raw than anything we’ve done before."

Pre-order new album Avalanche HERE.

Embrace - 2026 outstore release shows

Tickets are on sale from 27th March at 10am HERE.

Fri 05 June - Circuit, Kingston, UK

Sat 06 June - O2 Academy, Oxford, UK

Sun 07 June - O2 Academy, Leicester, UK

Tue 09 June - Birdwell Venue, Barnsley, UK

Wed 10 June - The Met, Bury, UK

Thu 11 June - Jacardanda Baltic, Liverpool, UK

Embrace - 2026 30th Anniversary UK headline tour dates

Sat 13 June - Piece Hall, Halifax, UK - SOLD OUT

Mon 09 Nov - Music Hall, Aberdeen, UK

Tue 10 Nov - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK

Thu 12 Nov - NX, Newcastle, UK

Fri 13 Nov - O2 Academy, Leeds, UK

Sat 14 Nov - O2 Academy, Manchester, uK

Sun 15 Nov- Rock City, Nottingham, UK

Tue 17 Nov - Dome, Brighton, UK

Thu 19 Nov - Beacon, Bristol, UK

Fri 20 Nov - Roundhouse, London, UK

Sat 21 Nov - O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK

Sun 22 Nov - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK

Tue 24 Nov - Dreamland, Margate, UK

Thu 26 Nov - Arena, Torquay, UK

Fri 27 Nov - O2 Guildhall, Southampton, UK

Sat 28 Nov - Tramshed, Cardiff, UK

More about Embrace:

Embrace's debut album, The Good Will Out, was released in 1998 and quickly became one of the biggest-selling debut albums by a British artist. With an ever-growing fanbase, festival headline slots, and large sell-out shows, Embrace wasted no time in establishing themselves as one of the country’s most exciting new bands. Numerous hit singles followed, along with albums Drawn From Memory (2000) and If You’ve Never Been (2001), before the band unexpectedly parted company with their label, Hut Recordings in 2002.

Rather than slowing them down, this only strengthened the band’s resolve. In 2004 Embrace signed to Independiente and returned with their biggest selling album to date Out Of Nothing. Bigger anthems and sold-out tours followed culminating in the release of their third number one album This New Day, in 2006. Cementing the bands reputation as one of the UK’s most iconic and influential bands of their generation.

With no signs of slowing down, a hugely loyal fan base, and looking to score their ninth top ten album in succession, Embrace head into 2026 rightfully celebrating thirty years of an extraordinary journey and a well-deserved place in the history of British music.

Embrace - Avalanche album tracklisting

1. Stop

2. Road To Nowhere

3. Get Out Of My Own Way

4. Coming Home

5. Emily

6. Up In Your Feelings

7. Pure O

8. Deny

9. Funny

10. The Power