
The London formed band Engineers have yet to better their debut, and it seems from this, their third album, we will have to wait a little longer. ‘In Praise of More’ finds the band with little fight left in them, coming across as a vaporous cluster of vocals, acoustics and broad-shouldered synths. And OK, the debut wasn’t exactly thrash metal; in fact it trod similar lines, but it was new and fresh – five years later we feel justified to expect progress, which unfortunately is absent here. There are no hard-lines or definable moments on which to guide these songs, [...]