The Latest Embrace Single
I signed up for the Embrace e-newsletter, and just received notice today that the third single from Out of Nothing will be released on February 14, 2005. The song is entitled "Looking As You Are," and the newsletter informs me, "Danny wrote this touching ballad at 3am one morning whilst waiting for a girl he'd fallen for to call."
My struggle to be an Embrace completist is hitting my pocketbook. The song is one of the weakest on the album (I think "Keeping" would have been a much better choice for third single), but it's going to be released on two CD's and one seven inch, each format containing different b-sides. And, of course, our ever weakening dollar will mean that the cost of importing the singles from England can only get more expensive.
Yet one more thing to lay at Bush's feet!
(I like this quote about "Keeping" from the Embrace website -- I hadn't noticed the Terence Malick connotations myself:
Out Of Nothing almost seems as though Embrace have given the lens which focuses their music a clean; everything is brighter, clearer and better defined, colours more vibrant, edges sharper. "Keeping" exemplifies this; from a distance it appears to be a standard, swooping and building Embrace number, heartfelt and anthemic. But pay closer attention and the widescreen vision on display is that of Terence Malick rather than James Cameron, contextual details becoming as important as the centre of the frame. It's in the way the bass drum double-thumps as the chorus erupts from the bridge, in the dirt at the edges of the guitar.)
My struggle to be an Embrace completist is hitting my pocketbook. The song is one of the weakest on the album (I think "Keeping" would have been a much better choice for third single), but it's going to be released on two CD's and one seven inch, each format containing different b-sides. And, of course, our ever weakening dollar will mean that the cost of importing the singles from England can only get more expensive.
Yet one more thing to lay at Bush's feet!
(I like this quote about "Keeping" from the Embrace website -- I hadn't noticed the Terence Malick connotations myself:
Out Of Nothing almost seems as though Embrace have given the lens which focuses their music a clean; everything is brighter, clearer and better defined, colours more vibrant, edges sharper. "Keeping" exemplifies this; from a distance it appears to be a standard, swooping and building Embrace number, heartfelt and anthemic. But pay closer attention and the widescreen vision on display is that of Terence Malick rather than James Cameron, contextual details becoming as important as the centre of the frame. It's in the way the bass drum double-thumps as the chorus erupts from the bridge, in the dirt at the edges of the guitar.)
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