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If Youve Never Been

If Youve Never Been
Embrace

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Track Listing

  1. Over
  2. I Hope You're Happy Now
  3. Wonder
  4. Many Will Learn
  5. It's Gonna Take Time
  6. Hey, What You Trying To Say
  7. If You've Never Been In Love With Anything
  8. Make It Last
  9. Happiness Will Get You In The End
  10. Satellites

Product Details

  • Released on: 2007-05-29
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .20 pounds

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk
If you've never been where? At first glance, the dreadfully styleless, say-nothing title of Embrace's third LP If You've Never Been appears to spell a certain stagnation in the McNamara brother's grand design. Actually, that's far from the case: an inversion of the chest-beating arrogance of debut album The Good Will Out and a simplification on the sometimes forced eclectica of its follow-up Drawn From Memory, If You've Never Been finds Embrace doing what they do best--lip-quivering ballads that gesture toward truly great things, and just occasionally, reach the dizzy heights at which they aim. The opening "Over" might span seven minutes, but it's over in the blink of an eye--the tale of a disintegrating love affair from which a new life blossoms anew, bourn up on Mick Dale's lush keyboard swathes. From there on in, it's familiar, but heartening stuff: "Wonder" is reminiscent of a restrained take on Oasis' "The Masterplan", while "Satellites" begins swaddled in Sigur Ros style ambience, and spreads its wings into a characteristically almighty torch song. There's the odd irritation: those unnecessary guitar effects on the otherwise pretty "Hey, What Are You Trying To Say". But niggles aside, If You've Never Been is another good, if not quite awesome album from the McNamara brothers. Which just goes to show, what's in a name? --Louis Pattison

Chronique amazon.fr
Si, à force de pétillants albums, Embrace ne réussit pas à cartonner et enfoncer les portes des hit-parades, au moins finit-il par s'imposer comme un groupe délicieux qui a plus de choses à dire que ses aînés d'Oasis. Par rapport à eux, l'aisance est pourtant la même qui, dans l'écriture, pourrait les voir tutoyer les sommets. Régulièrement, ils donnent de leurs nouvelles sous forme de singles aux refrains accrocheurs, dont toutes les qualités requises pour ne plus lâcher l'auditeur sont systématiquement au rendez-vous. Toutefois, depuis le précédent Drawn From Memory réalisé en 2000, la formation semble avoir gagné en maturité. Préférant désormais se cantonner à un registre folk qui fait la part belle à l'intelligence légère d'arrangements particulièrement sophistiqués, les frères McNamara touchent au plus profond. Leur mélancolie, communicative, est le compagnon idéal des soirs de déprime, et le romantisme leur sied à merveille. Pour s'en convaincre, il n'y a qu'à écouter le bien nommé "Happiness Will Get You In The End". --Hervé Comte

Album Description
The Brit-pop act's 2001 album on Virgin.