Title: Embrace – Embrace
Year/Genre: 1987, Post-Hardcore
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.