Engines
RIYL: Stillwell, Holy Roman Empire, Ribbonhead, Elder, Hot Bagels, Towers, Elder
Engines is a five piece noisy indie/punk rock band from Chicago. Originally conceived as a solo project for Philadelphia-based songwriter Craig Woods (Towers, Elder, Peter and Craig, Two Piece Fest) under the moniker Hot Bagels, Woods moved to Chicago in 2014 and soon recruited fellow east coast transplants Lee Zickwolf (Ribbonhead, Costanza) and Jeff Twietmeyer (Almost Argyle) and Chicago native Justin Wexler (Stillwell, Forge Again Records) as permanent fixtures of the band. After two years of performing and writing as a four piece, they decided to add a full-time vocalist to the mix. Emily Jancetic (Holy Roman Empire, Longdistancerunner), once lovingly described as the “the Kelly Clarkson of post-hardcore” by All Music Guide, joined in 2016. And thus Engines was born.
Every Cell, the sophomore EP from Engines, was recorded and mixed in the summer of 2018 by Andy Nelson (Weekend Nachos, Harms Way) at Bricktop Recordings and mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering.
Engines plays a brand of indie/punk rock that is is loud but not lacking in dynamics. Noisy, but beautiful, Chaotic, but calm. Dissonant, yet melodic. The natural progression from their debut full length Obsolete, Every Cell is the culmination of two years of five like-minded individuals simply being a band together.
Every Cell is available digitally and on limited edition one-sided 12” colored vinyl from these five killer DIY labels: Forge Again Records, Killer Tofu Records, Middle Man Records, Be Happy Records, and Triple Eye Industries.
