Armin van Buuren – Embrace

The art of an interpreter is seen in the variety and ductility of his music. A great album that shows a musical variety that many of us already knew, especially in armin's first hits back in 1996. Opening the ears that are not always the same is the best

The art of an interpreter is seen in the variety and ductility of his music. A great album that shows a musical variety that many of us already knew, especially on armin's first album back in 1997. Opening the ears that are not always the same is the best

I already got it that this Album shall be quite weak but in the end I bought it to have Armins Albums in a row. Except 2 or 3 tracks deserving 4* this Album is average or not to say his worst compared to his former Albums.
This may not be a surprise but what i find much more interesting is that the rating here is much higher than for the CD/file versions! I already realised that Vinyl ratings are usually higher/better than the digital counterparts. This shows that just fans buy the vinyl version or vinyl lovers are more generous in their rating :o)

I remember that he said "this is going to be a comeback to my roots". Well, I can't see it. Seriously, this album is the worst he has produced in his entire career. Intense is like 20000 times better than this, at least in Intense you can find some trance tracks and good vocal themes. This is just Pop and tracks for the radio. It's really sad. Now I understand why he released that Rising Star theme. He was trying to give a gift his old fans before this shit came out. It's like saying to a kid "take this candy, now we are going to the dentist". I'm absolutely disappointed with Armin. Yes, many of the ones who read this will say "Did you really wanted Trance from he?", "he sold out long ago", but damn, the other albums he did in the past are good. They were different and increasingly commercial, but they were not bad at all. But this? I feel sorry to have wasted my time listening to it.