Embrace Fire were a band from the Netherlands, active from 2004 to what appears to be somewhere around 2008, though they may have kept playing live past that point; they released two compilation tracks that year, and their website went offline at the end of it. The band included members from Raise Kain and springrain. Musically, Embrace Fire had more in common with bands like Life at These Speeds or Your Halo Is A Radar than their previous work, combining angular emo\post-hardcore with post-punk. The band's own press release describes the result as a combination of "Bloc Party, Explosions In the Sky and At the Drive-In," and… that's actually a pretty accurate self-assessment, especially for a piece of promotional fluff, though it does downplay the emo influences in the music, which are strong.
The band's first release was an EP in 2006, We Lost Our Organ Player in a great earthquake. It was self-released on a CDr in a cardboard sleeve (the first copy I bought was corrupted, forcing me to source a second). Later that same year, the band released a digital single through a website called Thrown, Unthrown. Sadly, no archives remain. One of the two songs, the title track, was put on a compilation, but the other track remains lost. Besides that, there was one other song on a compilation, "The Soft House," which showcases the band heading in a very different direction from the EP, moving towards post-rock. I would have liked to hear what they would have done with that sound, but nothing came of it.
Best as I can determine, that means I'm only missing one song from Embrace Fire, but their discography is small enough that a single song still represents a significant chunk of it.
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