Cooking Vinyl signs Embrace

- Platinum selling band to release new album in Spring 2014- Deal is for worldwide artist servicesLondon, 12th December, 2013: Cooking Vinyl has won the hotly contested race to sign Embrace to an artist services deal for the world.The band will release a new studio album in Spring 2014, their first for eight years, on Cooking Vinyl. It is being recorded at the band’s own studio inHalifax, with Embrace co-founder and guitarist Richard McNamara on production duties.Embrace have enjoyed plenty of success over the course of their career, releasing two Platinum albums (1998’s The Good Will Out, 2004’s Out of Nothing), three Gold albums (2000’s Drawn from Memory, 2002’s Fireworks (singles compilation) and 2006’s This New Day) and achieving six UK Top 10 singles. Combined sales of their last two albums total over one million copies.The band will support the new album with a full touring schedule, primarily covering theUK.Embrace’s co-founder and lead singer Danny McNamara said: "We had a few labels that loved the album, some who'd wanted to work with the band for a long time. But as soon as we met the Cooking Vinyl team, we knew we'd found the right home. We're really looking forward to working with them."Rob Collins, Director at Cooking Vinyl added: “We’re so, so pleased to land Embrace, especially given the stiff competition. This is a band that has delivered great songs time and time again, and is putting the polishing touches on another special album. We struck up a great relationship with Danny and had a shared vision for the record.” About Cooking Vinyl:Cooking Vinyl has developed a reputation as one ofEurope’s prime artist-focused independent labels, inspiring an enviable loyalty among its artist roster. It is also in the vanguard of music companies offering innovative services-only deals that claim no stake in artists’ copyrights.Cooking Vinyl takes full responsibility for the management of a project whether functioning as a label or in a services-only setting. Adding more than just marketing muscle, Cooking Vinyl devise and implement worldwide sales, marketing and distribution plans for their artists, working alongside booking agents and artist managers.Artists signed to Cooking Vinyl include Madness, Amanda Palmer, The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Underworld, Ron Sexsmith and Roll Deep. Such is the loyalty and affection among artists for the label that the likes of Frank Black have returned close to 20 times to record fresh collections with them. The Prodigy’s Invaders Music Die wasEurope’s biggest selling independent album in 2009.Cooking Vinyl Records is a division of the CV Grouphttp://cookingvinyl.com/CV GroupCV Group comprises several companies including Cooking Vinyl Records, Essential Music & Marketing, CV America, Cooking Vinyl Publishing and Cooking Vinyl Property.