[HERB004] Engine7 - Tempertantrum

Format: Digital (promo single)

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Distribution: Cargo

Catalogue No: HERB004

‘Tempertantrum (11.36am)’ is the long awaited and hotly anticipated new single from Scottish electronica genius, Alan McNeill, AKA Engine7.

An incendiary slice of modern electronics and lush instrumentation, full of dark atmosphere and frenetic emotions, the single acts as a stirring introduction to his forthcoming album ‘Me, But Perfect’, due out in late May this year. Tempertantrum (11.36am) is backed by the stirring, emotive wonder that is ‘Sunrise Catalonia (7.14am)’, the most perfect slice of post-Ibiza haze that you’ll ever hear this side of a ketamine comedown.

Alan makes emotional, organic music influenced by everything that makes him feel human, good or bad. The sounds swell like nature, brutal and beautiful, treading the line between paranoia and peace. The independent debut EP from 2005, ‘Hope Street’, saw Engine7 being described as a "dark and gritty style of organic electronica…encompassing shoegaze, ambient and downtempo" and "a triumph for organic instrumentation and digital innovation".

Engine7 revel in emotional, electronic music. Their music has been likened to anyone from Sigur Ros and Mum to Tangerine Dream, and like those artists, Engine7 harnesses an inexplicable quality that manages to connect to your primal heart, touching and emotive, with layer upon layer of detail only revealing themselves upon repeated listens.

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