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Engine Kid
12+ albums
post-hardcoremath rocknoise rockemopost hardcore
about
Engine Kid were an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington, whose music exemplified the groups worship of Slint and the quiet/loud song structure methodology. Releasing two full albums and a myriad of appearances elsewhere, the band fell apart in 1995. They reunited in 2020 and released new material in 2021. The band formed in 1991 and the original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Greg Anderson, drummer Chris Vandebrooke and bassist Art Behrman. They had all been in hardcore/punk bands around town, and all had a burning desire to create a sound that was unlike anything they had done in the past. After just a few months, they quickly recorded and self-released Novocaine. Circa ’92, Behrman was replaced by Brian "Krafty" Kraft, and the trio was picked up by local label C/Z records and set out upon recording the new music they were quickly creating. The band had two releases on C/Z in 1993. Their first offering was the Astronaut EP and the second the eight-song album Bear Catching Fish recorded with their hero Steve Albini, in the basement of his house. Shortly after the album’s release Jade Devitt replaced Vandebrooke on drums. The sound of “The Kid” started to transform into a sound much more of their own. Eclectic influences of punk/hardcore (Black Flag, Die Kreuzen), Metal (Entombed, Carcass) and even jazz (Mahavishnu Ochestra, Miles Davis electric era) were on a full collision course with the already dynamically heavy foundation of the band. After recording
