Interestingly, the instruments that come through the best are Ivor Hanson's drums, a neat switch around from the usual domination via guitar. With engineering help from the legendary Don Zientara, everything's well-recorded and produced, MacKaye clearly cutting through the heavy band crunch. As a vehicle for his righteous, cutting lyrics and strong voice, though, it's more than fine. It's no surprise per se that MacKaye wanted to push himself more strongly in future compared to Fugazi, Embrace is fine but nowhere near as gripping or inventive. The band's one album, taken from two separate mid-'80s recording sessions, finds the fusion of Faith's instrumentalists and Minor Threat's singer - Ian MacKaye himself, older brother of Faith's singer Alex - a successful enough blast of post-hardcore.
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