20 years into their recording career, Embrace is making an epic and emphatic return with their seventh studio album and a UK tour which stops at The Engine Rooms on Tuesday.

With three previous Number One albums, six Top 10 singles, sold out arena shows and over two million album sales behind them, Embrace returned triumphantly three years ago with their Top 5 self-titled LP.

The English alternative rock band from West Yorkshire consists of brothers – singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara – bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale and drummer Mike Heaton

Already hailed as a return to classic Embrace, the new album was recorded in 2017 at their own Magnetic North Studio and produced by Richard McNamara.

Recent single, Never, is the lead single on the album and features a duet between Danny McNamara and Kerri Watt, which they debuted in front of over 70,000 people at Cardiff Millennium Stadium during shows with Coldplay last year.

With tracks such as the emotive string-laden ballads The Finish Line and All That Remains and the instant Wake Up Call, the album sees Embrace return to the classic sound that first made us first fall in love with them.

The album’s overriding theme is one surrounding love, as Danny says: “Most people remember to eat, breathe and drink, but too many of us forget about love until it’s too late.

“The album is about the realisation that without food or water or shelter you die, but the same is also true of love.

“We set out to make an album where every song on it would stand up against the best songs we’ve ever written, and I’m pretty confident we’ve done just that.”

Following recent stadium support dates with Coldplay, as well as establishing and performing at their own award-winning Secret Festival, Embrace recently played a short run of intimate shows, where they previewed songs from new album, Love is a Basic Need, which was released this month.