Embrace released their fifth studio album 'This New Day' on 27 March 2006, preceded by the single 'Nature's Law' the week before. This album saw the whole band contributing to the writing, whereas before this the McNamara brothers had written virtually all of the band's material themselves, and they recorded twenty four songs in nine days. In March 2006 they were chosen to record England's official football World Cup 2006 song, 'World At Your Feet', which received its first radio airplay on 21 April 2006 on BBC Radio 1 to a generally poor reception among football fans, but an overall positive reception from music critics. It was released on 5 June 2006, and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 3, while 'Natures Law' entered the charts at number 2, providing them with their biggest hit to date. 'This New Day' went straight into the charts at number 1 and became their third chart topping album in the UK. The band played a new song 'Heart And Soul' live, which was expected to appear on their sixth album, but although a live version of the song appeared on the b-side of the 'I Can't Come Down' single, a studio recording is yet to appear. After the success of the singles and album in 2006, the band withdrew to write material for their sixth album, but it was to be seven years before Richard McNamara finally announced on the band's Facebook page that they were going back into the studio, so that seems the perfect place to draw this series to a close, with this collection of all the b-sides that appeared in 2006. I've titled these five albums in both alphabetical and date order, starting with 'Blind' in 1998 and ending with this post from 2006, and to keep a sense of continuity they're all housed in sleeves which feature an 'embrace'.
Track listing
01 Deliver Me (b-side of 'Natures Law' 2006)
02 Collide (b-side of 'Natures Law' 2006)
03 Soulmates (b-side of 'Natures Law' 2006)
04 World At Your Feet (single 2006)
05 What Lies Behind Us (b-side of 'World At Your Feet')
06 Love Orders (b-side of 'World At Your Feet')
07 Whatever It Takes (b-side of 'World At Your Feet')
08 Just Admit It (b-side of 'Target' 2006)
09 Run Away (b-side of 'Target' 2006)
10 One Luck (b-side of 'Target' 2006)
11 Thank God You Were Mean To Me (b-side of 'Target' 2006)
12 Heart And Soul (b-side of 'I Can't Come Down' 2006)
A great series of albums though i do think ''All You Good Good People'' Fierce Panda version is different enough to be on the first album.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get a chance to listen to them before, but having now heard both versions next to each other I agree that they are different, but the song itself was on their first album, and this is really just a collection of non-album tracks, and so it wouldn't include different versions of songs that were on an album. If I was struggling to make one of these posts up to 40 minutes then I might consider including it, but there was so much material already that I don't think it will be missed. There's nothing to stop you adding it to your own album, though.
DeleteThanks so much for all the Embrace!
ReplyDeleteDone it. Once again, a superb series of albums. Thankyou so much and please keep up the good work.
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