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Embrace – Embrace (Proto Emo Staff Pick!)
Title: Embrace – Embrace
Year/Genre: 1987, Post-Hardcore
Condition: New
Cultural Facts:
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Embrace formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985 around Ian MacKaye after the breakup of Minor Threat, drawing on veterans of the early D.C. hardcore scene.
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The band’s brief existence coincided with D.C.’s “Revolution Summer,” a shift toward more emotionally direct, politically conscious punk that critics later linked to early emo.
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Released on Dischord Records after the band had already split, the album became a touchstone for 1990s emo and post-hardcore bands in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.
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