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Engineers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Tim Hardin, Ulrich Schnauss, The Beach Boys, Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins. Those roots explain a lot about how Engineers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Amusement Parks On Fire, Film School, I Break Horses, School of Seven Bells and The Besnard Lakes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bloc Party, Steven Wilson and Anathema, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Engineers, reaching back through Tim Hardin and forward to Bloc Party. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Engineers are a British shoegaze/dream pop band. The band was formed in London in 2003 by bassist/guitarist/keyboardist Mark Peters, singer/guitarist Simon Phipps, 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 Linley, and keyboardist Ulrich Schnauss. Phipps and Land would later leave the band before the release of 2014's Always Returning. 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.
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Engineers connections
Engineers grew out of Tim Hardin, Ulrich Schnauss, The Beach Boys and Brian Eno, shares an orbit with Amusement Parks On Fire, Film School, I Break Horses and School of Seven Bells, went on to shape Bloc Party, Steven Wilson and Anathema. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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