Engineers

Artist: Engineers
Label: Echo
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5027529007421
ASIN: B0007MAQLO

Engineers

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Tracks:

Home
Waved On
New Horizons
Forgiveness
Let's Just See
Come in out of the Rain
Peter Street
Said and Done
Thrasher
How Do You Say Goodbye?
One In Seven

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The Engineers are..........2007-02-12

Total bliss. Kinda Pink Floyd-ish without any hard rocking. They're totally mellow, totally unknown and underrated (as far as I know anyway). To me The Engineers are one of the most original bands to listen to. Good music for relaxing, reading, and sleeping.

I wrote the same review for their other albums, but all the same applies here too!

On the brink.......2005-07-14

You have to admit, a self-titled album by a band called "The Engineers" sounds generic and instantly forgettable guitar rock. Nine out of ten times, such an album probably would be.

Well, it isn't.

The Engineers make a surprisingly memorable debut, by setting themselves smack between slow-burning rock music and ethereal soundscapes -- think half Eno, half Beta Band. The lush pop that results is unique in sound, wide in scope, and short on flaws.

It opens on a strong note with "Home": buzzing, jangling guitars, angelic stoned vocals, some swelling strings, and delicate synth that goes from tinkly to airy. It has a great symphonic sound that not many bands can accomplish, and it does so without being melodramatic.

The songs that follow tend to veer in one direction or another: Some of them are a lot more rock-oriented than the first song. These won't win any prizes for grittiness, however. Even the hardest song on here still sounds a bit like psychfolk. In other words, don't expect "Thrasher" to live up to its name -- there's a buzzing bassline in the background, but nothing really hard.

And when they're softer... well, often they sound like Air on a hardcore day. Songs like "New Horizons" have the same delicate, ethereal sound, and the ambient sweeps you'd expect from a downtempo band. It peaks with "Peter Street," a minute of swooping synth bands that peak and then fade away.

Most bands can't really manage multiple sounds well, or blend different kinds of music together -- in this case, rock rhythms with rich sonic expanses. But the London quartet Engineers not only do this, they succeed wonderfully. The only real flaw is that some songs overstay their welcome, and could have used a bit of trimming in the last half.

The vocals sound a bit stoner-rockish; these guys sound mellow enough to melt. Simon Phipps and Mark Peters often sing separately, but in some songs their vocals tangle together or harmonize. No, not in the same song. But their singing is more like another instrument, especially since the actual words are hard to make out.

The Engineers were quite correct when they said, "We don't sound like The White Stripes. We don't sound like Coldplay. We don't sound like anything current." No, they don't. Their symphonic psychedelic rock sounds like something entirely their own.

Finally some good new shoegazer-esque music.......2005-06-24

I actually downloaded this album at first by chance, listened to it a few times back to back, and then bought it from amazon. Truly amazing work from this rather unknown group. The Spiritualized influences are quite evident, but they just don't take it to same distorted, explosive levels that have made Spiritualized vocalist Jason Pierce a barely-living legend. This album will most definitely grow on me and will most certainly be upgraded to benchmark status in the indie-rock industry.

Dreampop, with Real Dreams.......2005-05-11

This London four-piece has been compared to everyone from Coldplay to Blur to My Bloody Valentine. Their self-titled debut might remind you of all those bands and more (The Verve, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins), but the axis point here is really the much-maligned "dreampop" - that 90's pseudo-genre of shoe-gazing guitaristas that were long on sound and short on song. To me, they sound like the Beta Band with better songs and sounds. Guitarist/keyboardist Dan McBean, guitarist/vocalist Mark Peters, guitarist/vocalist Simons Phipps, and drummer Sweeney (only one name necessary!) write majestic, simmering tunes about concepts such as "Home" and "Forgiveness" that are as grand as their titles yet rarely topple over into complete pretentiousness. If some of their tracks have a tendency to float away into the atmosphere, that's not always such a bad place to be ("Said & Done" is Sigur Ros with words you can understand). And regardless of where their spacey muse takes them, their noodling is never masturbation, and they never forsake genuine emotion.

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