Embrace have revealed that they plan to split up after their next album.

And frontman Danny McNamara is hoping that the band�s final album will be the �masterpiece� they�ve always wanted to create.

McNamara was speaking ahead of the opening night of Embrace�s tour in Hull last night (September 21).

He told BBC6music: "I think our next album will be our last ever album. If we get as far as making it and finishing it, I want it to be a masterpiece and I want to take as long as it takes."

The frontman continued: "We've worked solidly since I was 17 - that's half my life - and I've done nothing except look at the bigger picture.

�I haven't stopped to smell the flowers along the way at all. I spend all my time cooking and not eating and I just want to spend a bit of time doing that."

He also shrugged off suggestions that the split is anything to do with inter-band tensions, adding: "I wouldn't want to make music without the band.

�They are my best friends. They are the reason I have stayed in the business for so long. They are just beautiful people."