Engineers
by Engineers
  • Record Label: Echo
  • Release Date: Jun 21, 2005
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16

Review this album

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. JacekK
    Jul 17, 2005
    6
    Nice but all songs resemble each other too much. Gets boring quickly. I give it 6.5. Anyone agree?
  2. matta
    Sep 9, 2005
    6
    Okay but this score is way too high. I put it just barely above Coldplay on my list for albums of the year. NIce to listen to but gets boring at times and the tendency to skip to the next track is often an overpowering urge that I cannot resist. Worth checking out though, like Doves-lite.
  3. GeorgeM
    Aug 18, 2005
    4
    If shoegazing is the new black/brit-pop taken form in this debut effort by Engineers, it is a trend that will find little traction outside its native UK. Technically competent but dated, same-y and forgettable is the best evaluation I can conjure for this album.

Awards & Rankings

63
#63 Best Album of 2005

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. PopMatters
    90
    An early frontrunner for the UK album of the year.
    Read full review
  2. Dot Music
    70
    Engineers here prove capable both of emotive songwriting and of virtuoso studio craft.... Yet it falls shorts of true brilliance, for the simple reason that the band steadfastly refuse to rock-out.
    Read full review
  3. Drowned In Sound
    80
    An incredibly warm and organic sounding debut.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »