EMBRACE announce new album Avalanche for release on 12th June via Cooking Vinyl
Hear lead single
‘Road To Nowhere’ HERE
Embrace will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a run of UK headline tour dates in November
Embrace | Photo credit: Simon Walker
Today, Embrace return with details of their ninth album Avalanche, out 12th June via Cooking Vinyl. 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.
Anyone pre-ordering the album will get access to artist pre-sale tickets on 4th Feb. General on sale begins 6th Feb.
Lead singer Danny McNamara says the songs on the album feel more honest, open, and raw than anything the band have done before. Elaborating on the themes running through it, he says:
‘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.”
To mark the announcement of the new album, the band have shared a new single titled ‘Road To Nowhere’. Going on to speak about the track, McNamara says:
“It’s about the futility of a toxic relationship — the fact you don’t realise you’re on a road to nowhere until you reach the end of it. And really, all roads lead there eventually, so the only thing that matters is how you travel. That’s why the song feels uplifting as well as sad: because the intent was pure. There’s belief, optimism, a stubborn faith that love will get you somewhere better. In retrospect unfortunately in this instance that faith was deluded — the road didn’t lead where I thought it would — but the journey was real, and it was everything I had.”
Pre-order new album Avalanche HERE.
Hear ‘Road To Nowhere’ on streaming services here and share via YouTube below.
Embrace – November 2026 30th Anniversary UK headline tour dates
Mon 09 – Music Hall, Aberdeen, UK
Tue 10 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Thu 12 – NX, Newcastle, UK
Sat 14 – O2 Academy, Manchester, uK
Sun 15 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Tue 17 – Dome, Brighton, UK
Thu 19 – Beacon, Bristol, UK
Fri 20 – Roundhouse, London, UK
Sat 21 – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
Sun 22 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK
Tue 24 – Dreamland, Margate, UK
Thu 26 – Arena, Torquay, UK
Fri 27 – O2 Guildhall, Southampton, UK
Sat 28 – Tramshed, Cardiff, UK
Embrace – 2026 UK tour poster
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 artwork