Embrace the Curse

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Embrace the Curse
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Studio album by I Hate Kate
Released April 4, 2007
June 24, 2008 (re-release)
Genre Alternative rock, pop punk, electronic rock
Length43:26
46:20 (re-release)
Label Glassnote
Producer Mark Trombino, Linus of Hollywood, Justin Mauriello
I Hate Kate chronology
Act One
(2006)
Embrace the Curse
(2007)
Race to Red
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk.net (74%)
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Embrace the Curse is the first full-length album from I Hate Kate, released on April 4, 2007. It features several re-recordings from their Act One EP, and other songs they released earlier through their website.

Darling Thieves, formerly known as I Hate Kate, is an American alternative rock band from Huntington Beach, California, United States. The band was founded in November 2004 by former Zebrahead frontman Justin Mauriello.

Contents

Track listing

(all songs written by Justin Mauriello, except "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling)

Justin Mauriello American musician

Justin Mauriello is the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative rock band Darling Thieves, and former guitarist and founding member of punk rock band Zebrahead.

Peter Schilling German singer and musician

Peter Schilling is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes like aliens, astronauts and catastrophes. He is best-known for his 1983 hit single "Major Tom " which was an international success.

  1. "Bed of Black Roses" – 3:37
  2. "Embrace the Curse" – 3:58
  3. "She's a Man" - 4:19
  4. "A Story I Can't Write" – 3:31
  5. "It's You" – 4:40
  6. "Then You Kiss" – 3:47
  7. "Always Something" – 3:34
  8. "The Thrill" – 3:23
  9. "Outta My Head" – 3:36
  10. "Love Association" – 4:32
  11. "Major Tom (Coming Home)" (Peter Schilling cover) - 4:21

Re-release

Embrace the Curse was re-released on June 24, 2008 due to the band signing a record deal with Glassnote Records. Some minor changes were made to the album, including changing the name of "Always Something" to "It's Always Better" and adding the band's third single, "I'm in Love With a Sociopath".

Glassnote Records is a record label that was launched by American music executive Daniel Glass in 2007. The label primarily has a lineup of indie rock and alternative rock artists, most notably Mumford & Sons and Phoenix. The label has also released music from popular artists in other genres, such as Chvrches, Childish Gambino and Secondhand Serenade. The label made a distribution deal with AWAL in November of 2018.

  1. "Bed of Black Roses" - 3:43
  2. "It's Always Better" - 3:37
  3. "Then You Kiss" - 3:48
  4. "Inside Inside" - 4:23
  5. "I'm in Love with a Sociopath" - 2:54
  6. "It's You" - 4:07
  7. "Story I Can't Write" - 3:37
  8. "Embrace the Curse" - 4:00
  9. "Major Tom (Coming Home)" (Peter Schilling cover) - 4:21
  10. "The Thrill" - 3:26
  11. "Love Association" - 4:38
  12. "Outta My Head" - 3:46

Personnel

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Production

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References

  1. Embrace the Curse – Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 2010-01-06.