Engineers (Engineers album)

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Engineers
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Studio album by
Released7 March 2005 (2005-03-07)
Recorded2004
Genre
Length49:31
Label The Echo Label
Producer
Engineers chronology
Folly EP
(2004)
Engineers
(2005)
Three Fact Fader
(2009)
Singles from Engineers
  1. "Forgiveness"
    Released: 21 February 2005
  2. "Home"
    Released: 13 June 2005
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
NME 9/10 [5]
Pitchfork Media 7.2/10 [6]
Playlouder (favourable) [7]
PopMatters 9/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Stylus B+ [10]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT empty.svg [11]

Engineers is the debut studio album of the British shoegaze band Engineers, released on 7 March 2005 by the Echo Label. Engineers was supported by the release of two singles, "Forgiveness" in February 2005 and "Home" in June 2005. The album was preceded by the mini-album Folly on 27 September 2004, which includes the album version of "Come in Out of the Rain" and the original mix of "Forgiveness".

Contents

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 81, based on 18 reviews. [1]

In 2010, the song "Home" became the theme song for the HBO TV series Big Love . [12]

Artwork

The artwork for releases by Engineers during this period feature paintings by British artist David Thorpe (through the Maureen Paley gallery):

Track listing

All tracks are written by Engineers

No.TitleLength
1."Home"4:07
2."Waved On"5:21
3."New Horizons"4:54
4."Forgiveness"3:39
5."Let's Just See"4:20
6."Come In Out of the Rain"4:04
7."Peter Street"1:23
8."Said and Done"4:49
9."Thrasher"3:52
10."How Do You Say Goodbye?"5:19
11."One in Seven"7:45
Japanese CD bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Stake to Glory"4:45
13."Cats of Justice"4:04

Singles

Credits

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References

  1. 1 2 Engineers reviews at Metacritic.com
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Austin Chronicle review
  4. "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  5. NME review
  6. Pitchfork Media review
  7. "Playlouder review". Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
  8. PopMatters review
  9. Q Magazine review
  10. Stylus review
  11. Tiny Mix Tapes review
  12. "BIG LOVE – Engineers MySpace blog". Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  13. "David Thorpe – Do What You Have to Do – Saatchi Gallery". Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  14. "David Thorpe – Maureen Paley Gallery". Archived from the original on 31 December 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  15. David Thorpe – Ask Art
  16. David Thorpe – Out from the Night – artnet.com