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Embrace are an English post-Britpop band from Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse, West Yorkshire. To date they have released five studio albums, one singles album and one B-sides compilation. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale, and drummer Mike Heaton. The group have released five studio albums – The Good Will Out (1998), Drawn from Memory (2000), If You've Never Been (2001), Out of Nothing (2004) and This New Day (2006) – with a sixth in the works, expected to be released sometime in 2012, six years since their last studio release.
The band was begun in a small outbuilding at the bottom of a garden in Bailiff Bridge in 1990. A bass player joined the McNamara brothers, Richard playing guitar and Danny singing (into an upturned broomstick at the early stages). The three of them started creating songs, with the aid of a cassette recorder, and soon a drum machine was added.An initial set of songs was written, then dropped and a second set of songs written. A cassette fourtrack was used to make an initial demo in a house in the hyde park area of Leeds.
With every single step I take I'm leaving
Will you get your story told
Stealing light from falling stars
The devil that you know knows where you are
Sell your soul, you'll go far
You've only got to stop to make it easy
We were born without the brakes
What we like we say we like
Like when you should hate and make your name
If I seem down then look again
You've got to stop to make it better
And you don't feel it so you do it again
I don't need your labels
You can use what's in my name