Embrace announce new album Avalanche

Embrace have announced their ninth studio album Avalanche, set to release Friday, June 12 via Cooking Vinyl. It's the British rockers' first album in four years.

Lead singles 'Stop' and 'Road To Nowhere' are out now.

Lead singer Danny McNamara said making the record “felt risky, but also strangely freeing.”

"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," McNamara said. "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 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."

Later this year, McNamara will be joined by his brother, guitarist Richard McNamara, keyboardist Mickey Dale, bassist Steve Firth, and drummer Mike Heaton on a UK tour to celebrate 30 years as a band. Tickets are available here.

Read the full tracklist for Avalanche below:

1. Stop
2. Road To Nowhere
3. Get Out of My Own Way
4. Coming Home
5. Emily
6. Up In Your Feelings
7. Pure O
8. Deny
9. Funny
10. The Power