Track Listing

1. Ashes
2. Gravity
3. Someday
4. Looking As You Are
5. Wish 'Em All Away
6. Keeping
7. Spell It Out
8. A Glorious Day
9. Near Life
10. Out Of Nothing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2266 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Out of Nothing, the band's fourth album, is the best they have ever made. The McNamara brothers have buckled down to some serious songwriting (aided by Coldplay's Chris Martin on first single "Gravity") to produce a selection of songs that can all lay claim to the title "Classic".

Opening with the monumental "Ashes" it is clear from the off that this is not some huge stylistic leap. Instead Embrace have consolidated all they are good at (epic, heart-warming anthems) and finally made the album they have always promised. "Gravity" is exactly what you'd expect, a Coldplay tune as played by Embrace, but where as Chris Martin and the boys are often stark and fidgety Embrace cover the track in a lushness that makes you swoon. "Someday" has them coming across like the younger brothers of Spiritualised complete with a finale featuring a full-on gospel choir, "Wish 'Em All Away" is harmonica-soaked loveliness with a chorus that touches the heavens, and "Spell It Out" is a string-laden monster that has 'festival closer' written all over it.

The album ends as magnificently as it begins with a triplet of songs that takes the breath away. The gentle "A Glorious Day", atmospheric "Near Life" and magnificent title track prove just how far Embrace have come since the days of out-of-tune criticisms and gags about being Oasis' little brothers. Out of Nothing is a truly exceptional album that suggests that, far from being over, the journey for Embrace has only just begun.

CD Description
'Out Of Nothing' is the fourth album from the Huddersfield outfit Embrace. The album sees the band continue with the anthemic British sounding indie rock of previous work which earned the band comparisons to The Verve and Oasis. The single'Gravity', co-written by Coldplay's Chris Martin, is also featured.

Customer Reviews

This album is a REAL grower....
I am listening to this album as I write this, and it gets better the more I listen to it.

On most albums there are songs u instantly like, then there are the growers... I have to admit there are quite a few growers on this album... but growers are what they are... they get better and better the more u listen to them... and that is exactly the case with Out of Nothing.

The instant tracks for me were: Ashes, Gravity, Someday, Glorious Day and Out Of Nothing.

Looking As You Are, Wish 'Em All Away, Keeping, Spell It Out and Near Life are the growers; but now I like them all...

Glorious Day is my favourite track on the album... EXCELLENT SONG!!
Near Life to me is a really wierd/chilled out track... it sends shivers up my spine, for some reason.

There are no songs on this album that I don't like, and that is VERY rare for me... there aren't many albums where I like all the songs... but this one is an exception.

If you have any interest in Embrace at all, even the slightest interest... BUY THIS ALBUM... U WONT BE DISAPOINTED!!

Read this, I'm not pretentious
You'll love this album. As one reviewer below said, you wouldn't think Embrace would be able to come up with any more so-called anthems, but they do just that at least 3 times on this album.

"Ashes" is an amazing song, the best album-opener you could wish for, especially when you've been waiting a few years for this album to happen. "Someday" and "Spell It Out" are equally good. When you've listened to this album once or twice, you'll be singing it in your head for hours and hours.

This album is outstanding - buy it now, you will not be disappointed.

Near Life? You will be.
There really is no need to Spell It Out for us. "Out Of Nothing" is clearly already verging on the status of a classic, and it's not actually been released yet. The ears that have heard this magnificant record so far have pricked up and listened, and it's finally all coming together for Embrace, the band that just as little as 3 years ago were being begudgeoned by the press, and apparently their fans, for being "out of tune", "out of tunes" and "past it".

They've struggled and strived for a fair time now in the midst of adoring fans and downpouring press. But they have arisen, and this is finally their time. Again.

Out Of Nothing strikes out of nowhere with the first blow. There's nowhere to hide from the fabulous "Ashes" and believe me, you're not even going to try. It pulls you in and you're stuck. This isn't a one off for the album either. You'd think in a world of 'Anthemic Pop' to the tens, the pen would surely be running out by the 4th studio album, but no. These boys just keep on delivering.

"Gravity" isn't as unexpected, it's a ballad, and for Embrace, that's not so unusual. However there's something about this ballad. It's covered and smoothered and oozing with delight. Penned by Coldplay's Chris Martin but given the Embrace stamp until that factor is almost unrecognisable, "Gravity" takes you beyond the belief that Embrace were ever, or could ever be 'past it'.

Stumbling into "Someday" you've already forgotten where you were meant to be when you started listening to Out Of Nothing. You're in the world of something new, something special, and something to sit up and take note of. With it's gospel interludes and it's stunning rises and falls, 'Someday' could be a single, THE single, and if it is the next single, Embrace will no longer be a thing of cult.

"Looking As You Are" is quite possibly the most beautiful song in the world. The stunning vocals, sparse but independently meaningful lyrics, and sentiments in this song simply melt you (me) into nothingness for three short minutes. This song will change the way you look at Embrace, if the first three tracks didn't already.

You've barely recovered from LAYA (abbreviations of song lyrics are readily accepted currency among their fanbase) and you've been thrown headfirst into "Wish 'Em All Away". A definite favourite amongst listeners of Out Of Nothing so far. Perhaps it's something to do with the breif reincarnations of zulu (or is that kiwi) warrier chants of past hovering in the background. Perhaps it's the harmonica, perhaps it's the completely and utterly heartfelt and emotional way in which Danny McNamara lugs out the lyrics til there's no more breath in his already outsung lungs. Perhaps it's just because you're dealing with the heavy uphill slaughter of listening to this album.

The next few tracks are each in their own way, devine. You'll be dragged uphill, downhill, round the ladies chamber and all whilst you're clambering to hang onto yourself in the midst of it all. You're still catching your breath from the get go. But then you hit "Near Life" and you're wondering if this is the same band you've been listening to for the past 8 tracks. It is, I'm certain of it. But it's a question every person is going to ask themselves when this monumental, head turning, brain teasing track enters your ear canal. Can it be Embrace that are pouring out this sluggish, clanging, dreamy track before you? It is, and you're going to listen. You have no choice, because the almost psychadelic tendancy this song is parading infront of you has you grabbed. You've never heard anything like this before. And more than likely, you won't again. It's magical, in the entire sense of the word.

Still mesmorised by "Near Life", the remnants buzzing around in you mind, "Out Of Nothing", the title track saved for last, as it should have been (don't you always save your french fries till then end? Why? Because they're the best bit). Starting out as another Embrace-special ballad, you might start thinking that the best was somewhere else in this set of wonderfully crafted peices of history. But then it kicks in. And so does your pacemaker. It's loud, it's fast, it's unwittingly clever and magnificant like no other. It's Out Of Nothing and it's Embrace.

All you've done is listened to the new Embrace album. But you feel like you've been in the gym for an hour, working out to your most. It's an album that requires your full attention, and believe me, it's going to get it. There's no getting out of that.

Past it? Not even nearly, their journey is just beginning.