Engine

Engine is a space-western band from the north-western pines of Louisiana. Their sound originated from a gospel upbringing where pump organs and tambourines littered sideshow stages. Young, fierce, and full of contempt for all that their hometown of Shreveport attempts to polish, Engine are the kind of music savants who'll crash your basement first, tune their instruments later, and still be plucking away unplugged on your back porch long past sun-up. Frontman Landon Miller stutters, stalls, slurs, stops, starts, and wails his words, coloring the songs far outside the shaky melody lines, while the rest of the troupe revels in mastering stoned glam garage blues and flourishes of freeform experimentation. Their debut record,“The Factory Fire” sprung from a fuzzy cave into existence during the winter of twenty-ten. It sounds like a broken carousel in your grandmother’s attic. Their latest record, Caverns of Sonora, is a spare, dusty collection that has established the southern-natives as also innovate and tasteful. There's resignation and frailty in Miller's songs, but also an untarnished optimism that gives them a woozy romanticism.