‘Engineers transcend shoegazing and approach the heights of Spiritualized at their space-rocking best. We need these guys around.’ * * * * Sunday Times Culture, CD of the week

‘superb ...  like Animal Collective with Phil Spector at the controls’ 8/10 NME

 ‘Everything they do is brilliant’ Lauren Laverne BBC 6Music

‘they construct one finely crafted, highly detailed, effect-laden wall of sound after another’ Loud And Quiet

‘their gorgeous sonic assault cuts straight to deeper feelings’ * * * * Daily Express

‘they've remarkably managed to raise the bar to a whole new level for an entire genre with Three Fact Fader’  8/10 Drowned In Sound

Engineers’ long awaited second album, Three Fact Fader, is released next Monday (July 6^th)  but if you want to hear the album just now it is streaming on NME.com for the whole of this week. http://www.nme.com/mediaPlayer&playlist_id=1973

The album is also RecordStore.co.uk’s album of the month for July. Exclusive signed copies of the album are now available from the site. http://www.recordstore.co.uk/productdetail.jsp?productPK=unittest-3yHkTjvrjkg1CrmmqN3IEb-1

The Three Fact Fader mini-site is also online at http://www.kscopemusic.com/engineers/threefactfader/, which features info on the album, audio samples, a free mp3 from the album, downloads plus the video for the single Clean Coloured Wire and the chance to order from the Kscope store.

All orders placed through the Kscope store are already shipping and come with an exclusive 2 track CD featuring the radio edit of the single Clean Coloured Wire and the Steven Wilson remix of Sometimes I Realise. This will be the only physical release of these tracks and will only be available through the Kscope store.

To mark the release of the album, the band will be playing their first live gig in over 2 years on July 10th at the Bush Hall in London. They will also be joined onstage by special guest Ulrich Schnauss

In addition, Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree / ex-Japan) will also be performing a rare live set on what promises to be a special evening.

Tickets are available now for £13.50 (plus booking fee) from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=323235&interface=
and http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49672

this is the itunes link to the sasha remix of 'sometimes i realise'

Read the American tour diary! Engineers supported Bloc Party on their latest tour of America.

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When I was talking to Tony about bands in America I never thought that Id be in that situation myself. But as I write this Im eating some Mike and Ike Original Fruits which I picked up on a short tour of the East Coast. Theyre a bit like Starburst Joosters but they dont even pretend to have any fruit in them. Its unadulterated sugar. They like sugar in America. Take Cinnabons. They sell them in service stations. Theyre like a spiral of sweet suet interlaced with a cinnamon sugar syrup and then topped with a sort of warm vanilla cream. Imagine if you got a Mr. Kipling cupcake (not chocolate , the pink and yellow ones) and melted the topping thats probably how youd get the cream. They serve them up in packs of six. Six! One of them has you chewing the headrest and making high-pitched mewling sounds. Serve with a bucket of Starbucks vanilla latte and you could punch your way through Perspex. Nursing a hangover in the services on the way to Philadelphia I sought redemption in the shape of a Vege Pack that came with a low fat ranch dressing. It contained a floret of Broccoli, a flower of cauliflower and a lot of bleached bland carrot sticks. A woman came up behind me and gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder. She was wearing grey cycling shorts, a baseball cap, fanny pack and billowing t-shirt: where do you get all that healthy stuff? and then she was gone. For some Cinnabons.

Is that all I talk about? Food? Well in that case lets begin at the beginning. In-flight meals. Boy! Propped up with your elbows glued to your ribs, holding that little plastic knife and fork like a couple of pencils. Chicken or beef? Like a mantra. Identify yourself. Chicken or beef? Would you like a drink? Yes some wine. Would you like another bottle with your meal? Are you kidding me? Then a walk. We dont want deep thought psychosis. Go for a walk to the bathroom. Sway nervously. The seatbelt signs ding on and someone starts hammering on the door as the gulf stream throws up another pocket of turbulence. On the plus side the alternative radio channel is rotating two albums. Engineers and Bloc Party, the band were supporting in America.

We get to JFK, Sweeneys left his mobile on the plane and then were queuing up for our guitars by the carousel with a metal band called Testament. They were big in the nineties and played Donnington and they were wearing big, mirrored aviators and had menacing tattoos. Some of their gear had been damaged en route but ours hadn't (an auspiscious portent) and we went on to customs. It was super-strict but my customs guy was Italian American and wished me luck.

So we went out into a hot and humid afternoon. A big black Ford was waiting for us, seats facing forward and cargo all in the same compartment. Matt drove us and we saw a lot of jeeps full of muscled frat boys hanging out the back and driving on the pavement to avoid traffic jams. We got directions from some Mexicans hanging out of the sunroof of their Camry and Ive never seen four redder rimmed eyes in my life. Needless to say, in a world where you can undertake and overtake and trucks barrel down the hard shoulder we were already getting nervous about having to drive ourselves to Washington on the Thursday. Its four hours away and on a main trade artery. Youve all seen Duel? Well you get the picture.