Engine Down

“Groove-oriented emprise brushed with tones of Get Like Jehu and grounded within a rocking emo sensibility” starts to characterize Engine Down’s music demeanor. The quartet fulfilled in Harrisonburg, VA, before getting into an eastward migration towards the Virginia capital of Richmond. Made up of previous associates of Sleepytime Trio, the Weak Hyperlink Breaks, and Bughummer, Engine Down debuted on the showing of the murder secret flick. They initial released a self-titled 7″ through Lovitt in 1998; their full-length Beneath the Pretense of Present Tense pursuing afterwards that year. From then on, the music group — made up of Jonathan Fuller (acoustic guitar/vocals), Jason Solid wood (bass/vocals), Keeley Davis (vocals/acoustic guitar) and Cornbread Compton (drums) — released 2000’s To Bury Inside the Sound and 2001’s AN INDICATOR of Breathing EP, touring with such functions as 400 Years, Speedwell, and Three Cent Opera. Also in 2001 arrived their third recording, the moodier Demure. By method of their recordings and live shows, Engine Down nurtured a bevy of adoring followers that helped them graph in CMJ’s Best 20 for eight weeks. Engine Down had been eager for rhythms in 6/8 period, not really hesitating to augment their bass, drum, acoustic guitar, and vocal set up with such devices as cello, vibraphone, and piano. Actually with no addition of the acoustic devices, Engine Down’s primary audio — propulsive triplet-ridden beats, weighty basslines, pugnacious acoustic guitar salvos, and languorous vocals — produced the band well worth searching for. By 2004, the group experienced jumped from Lovitt to Lookout Information release a its fourth drive, Enginedown. Engine Down toured European countries in early 2005 before announcing that they might be splitting up (amicably) later on that year. Carrying out a fall U.S. farewell tour backed by Bella Lea and Des Ark, the bandmembers proceeded to go their separate methods.