Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
Embrace (English band) Embrace (English band) Embrace are an English alternative rock band from Bailiff Bridge, West Yorkshire. To date they have released seven studio albums, one singles album and one B-sides compilation. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale and drummer Mike Heaton. The group have released seven studio albums – "The Good Will Out" (1998), "Drawn from Memory" (2000), "If You've Never Been" (2001), "Out of Nothing" (2004), "This New Day" (2006)", Embrace" (2014) and "Love Is a Basic Need" (2018). The band began in a small outbuilding at the