Embrace Share New Single Stop, Announce UK Out-Store Shows
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Simon Walker
Embrace have shared another track from their upcoming ninth album.
Fuelled by a propulsive beat, the soaring, emotionally-charged Stop serves as the second preview of ’Avalanche’, due out on June 12 via Cooking Vinyl. Vocalist Danny McNamara commented:
"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."
The British indie stalwarts introduced the follow-up to 2022’s ’How To Be A Person Like Other People’ in January alongside the release of its lead single, Road To Nowhere. They’ll build up to the LP’s release with a short out-store tour the week before, calling in Kingston, Oxford, Leicester, Barnsley, Bury and Liverpool, with tickets going on sale at 10am on Friday (March 27).
Later in the year, Embrace will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a previously scheduled UK tour in the autumn. They’ll also mark the milestone with spoken-word shows, with McNamara set to tour the UK from this September to May next year with stories about the band, alongside the release of a new book about their early years. Head here for details on that.
Ahead of the tour, Embrace will headline the Shiiine On Weekender at Butlin’s Skegness this week and the Live At The Piece Hall series in Halifax in June, alongside an appearance at Roseshire Festival in Northamptonshire in August. Tickets are on sale now.
Embrace Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri June 05 2026 - KINGSTON Circuit
Sat June 06 2026 - OXFORD O2 Academy Oxford
Sun June 07 2026 - LEICESTER O2 Academy2 Leicester
Tue June 09 2026 - BARNSLEY Birdwell
Wed June 10 2026 - BURY Met
Thu June 11 2026 - LIVERPOOL Jacaranda
Sat June 13 2026 - HALIFAX Piece Hall
Mon November 09 2026 - ABERDEEN Music Hall
Tue November 10 2026 - GLASGOW Barrowland
Thu November 12 2026 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NX
Fri November 13 2026 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Sat November 14 2026 - MANCHESTER Manchester Academy
Sun November 15 2026 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Tue November 17 2026 - BRIGHTON Dome
Thu November 19 2026 - BRISTOL Bristol Beacon
Fri November 20 2026 - LONDON Roundhouse
Sat November 21 2026 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
Sun November 22 2026 - CAMBRIDGE Corn exchange
Tue November 24 2026 - MARGATE Dreamland
Thu November 26 2026 - TORQUAY Arena Torquay
Fri November 27 2026 - SOUTHAMPTON O2 Guildhall Southampton
Sat November 28 2026 - CARDIFF Tramshed
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