"Chris Martin is one of the three people on the world who I consider to be a friend, aside from the band and my family," smiles Danny McNamara, frontman of Britpop band Embrace.
"We play each other stuff over the phone all the time and when he played me Gravity about two years ago I absolutely loved it. Chris thought it was one of the best songs he'd written but said it sounded so much like Embrace that he gave it to us and it’s turned out really, really well."
The West Yorkshire band have stamped their own unique sound onto the ballad, out on Monday, the first single to be released from Embrace’s fourth album, Out Of Nothing, out on September 13.“It’s just a really beautiful love song, an out-and-out uncynical song about somebody who is so full of love that they’re hurting with it,” explains the 33-year-old lead vocalist and guitarist.
Although Chris Martin has since become globally successful, Danny first met the singer when Coldplay supported Embrace at The Blackpool Express Ballroom back in 2000.
For the moment Danny’s energy is well and truly focused on Embrace. Given the strength of the arguments between the singer and the band’s new producer Youth, during the three long months when they were making of Out Of Nothing, it sounds like he needed every last drop.
“We have practically produced everything ourselves for the past seven years,” Danny explains. “So when we were recording the album it was really hard because of the amount of arguments I was having with Youth – shouting, throwing things, jumping on tables and crying and stuff.”
He’s quick to point out that the feuding duo have since managed to salvage something from the wreckage to become good friends.
“I’ve realised that if you allow people to do their jobs then you’ll do a lot better.
“All the pain and suffering from the album was worth it in the end because it’s easily our best album and if it hadn’t been for Youth it wouldn’t have been half as good – the guy’s an unpredictable genius.”
As for the bond between himself and songwriting partner – and younger brother – Richard (31): “We only really had about 10 days off from writing and we had over 500 songs and half-finished song ideas that we could choose from before we actually went into the studio to record,” Danny recalls.
“I think we’ve got more confident now and with that confidence you feel able to reveal more lyrically so every album that has gone by has been progressively more honest.
“I’m really excited about this album and the prospects for the future are looking really bright,” he grins. I feel like I’m a 17-year-old again.”
Source: News And Star
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