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Engineers


Engineers are a British shoegazing/dream pop band. The band was formed in London in 2003 by singer/guitarist Simon Phipps, bassist/guitarist/keyboardist Mark Peters, bassist/guitarist Dan MacBean, and drummer Andrew Sweeney. After the release of their second album Three Fact Fader in 2009, MacBean and Sweeney left the band, and were replaced by bassist/vocalist Daniel Land, drummer Matthew Gilbert Linley, and keyboardist Ulrich Schnauss. Engineers' sound has been described as hazy, ethereal, and atmospheric, and the band often cites the works of The Beach Boys, Brian Eno, Cocteau Twins, Spiritualized, and Pink Floyd as influences. http://www.kscopemusic.com/engineers/inpraiseofmore/ Beginnings and debut album Engineers were signed to the Echo Records label in 2004, and the band recorded and released their first single Home/New Horizons in April 2004; both songs were re-recorded for the band's debut album the following year. The mini-album Folly arrived on 27 September 2004, preceded by the single Come in Out of the Rain a week prior. The mini-album also featured a cover of Tim Hardin's If I Were a Carpenter, and the original recording of Forgiveness. Their eponymous debut album followed in March 2005, preceded by the re-recorded Top 50 single Forgiveness in late February. The album was released to generally positive reviews; at Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a generally favourable score of 8...

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