Embrace are back with a new one. The Bradford five-piece have shared Stop, their second single from the upcoming ninth album ‘Avalanche’, out 12th June via Cooking Vinyl — and alongside it comes a string of intimate outstore release shows lined up for June. Tickets are on sale now.
Following lead single Road To Nowhere — which landed immediate support from BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, and Absolute Radio — Stop doubles down on the sense of liberation that’s been driving this record from the start. It’s a song about stepping off the treadmill, letting go of the grind, and actually showing up for your own life. As far as mission statements go, it’s a pretty powerful one.
Danny McNamara on ‘Stop’
“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.” — Danny McNamara
About ‘Avalanche’
If there’s a thesis running through ‘Avalanche’, it’s this: joy isn’t in the big moments we’re conditioned to chase — it lives in the small, almost invisible flashes of magic that only reveal themselves when you slow down enough to notice them. McNamara opens up about the creative headspace behind the record:
“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 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.” — Danny McNamara
Musically, the band were chasing feel over perfection — human, rough around the edges, alive. McNamara describes the approach as getting out of his own way, perhaps for the first time since the band’s debut. The result is an album that leans into contradiction, sits with discomfort, and isn’t afraid to say I don’t know — which, honestly, makes it sound like one of the most honest things they’ve ever made.
‘Avalanche’ track listing
- Stop
- Road To Nowhere
- Get Out Of My Own Way
- Coming Home
- Emily
- Up In Your Feelings
- Pure O
- Deny
- Funny
- The Power
Pre-order new album ‘Avalanche’ HERE.
Outstore Release Shows — June 2026
Tickets on sale now.
- 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 — Jacaranda Baltic, Liverpool, UK
30th Anniversary UK Headline Tour — November 2026
And if the release shows aren’t enough, Embrace are going big for their 30th anniversary with a full UK headline run in November. Their hometown show at the 6,000-capacity Piece Hall in Halifax this summer is already SOLD OUT — so don’t sleep on the rest of these.
- 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
A Quick Word on Embrace
For anyone who needs a refresher: Embrace have been a cornerstone of British music since their 1998 debut ‘The Good Will Out’, one of the biggest-selling debut albums by a British artist of its era. Over two million albums sold, multiple top ten records, and a fanbase that’s stuck around through every chapter — including the hiccup of losing their deal with Hut Recordings in 2002, which they bounced back from spectacularly with ‘Out Of Nothing’ on Independiente in 2004. Their third number one, ‘This New Day’, followed in 2006, and they’ve never really stopped. Thirty years deep and heading into what sounds like their most personal album yet — ‘Avalanche’ is shaping up to be something special.
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