This article was publish in Svenska Dagbladet which is a daily morning newspaper. One of only two national morning newspapers that is not genre specified (there are of course many local newspapers). Publication date was April 17th, 2000.
I have to add that I found this a very poor article, lacking balance. Seems the journalist is more interested to flaunt her knowledge of the English music scene than to review Embrace's performance.

Embrace gave a 'fat' pop experience
Concert, Klubben, Stockholm

It's a lot about the hairstyle. Danny, the McNamara brother doing most of the singing, is the definition of a post-Manchester-bloke with hair in the eyes, v-jeans and soul funky swing in knees.
After the small crowd at Klubben have patiently waited for one and a half hour after opening, the Yorkshire-brothery (extremely weird choice of word constellations, webmaster's note) Embrace give a fat experience to everybody who wants it. They mostly play songs from their debut "The Good Will Out", "Come Back To What You Know", "All You Good Good People" and "Fireworks", hits that even reached Sweden to some extent (I would argue with "Fireworks" having been a hit in Sweden, to any extent).

By the edge of the stage there are a bunch of colorful indie girls who follow every groovy step Danny takes with pleasure. His walk and the guitarplaying from McNamara brother number 2, Richard, and the horn instruments strengthen the feeling that these are not new ideas being ventilated.

After their time
In a way Embrace are after their time. On the other hand, maybe all guitar bands don't need to think retro, do country or let The Chemical Brothers mix them in order to survive with their honor kept. If you isolate Embrace from trends and focus on how they sound in the flesh, it's not hard to be drawn away with Danny's Ian Brown/Shaun Ryder-esque stage action and the epic pompous songs that give enough strong sugar kicks as pop music should do (I wonder if she's mistaken them for old Blur or something, webmaster's note).

Karoline Eriksson