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Premiere: “Fight or Flight” Video

Aug 27, 2014

Engineers and Under the Radar go way back. We first interviewed the British band all the way back in our ninth issue, in 2005, in honor of the band’s self-titled debut album. Engineers’ lineup may have fluctuated over the years, but two things have remained a constant: frontman Mark Peters and the band’s sound—gorgeous and dreamy shoegazer soundscapes wrapped in pop songs.

The lineup currently features Peters, Matthew Liney, and Ulrich Schnauss, an acclaimed electronic/shoegaze musician, producer, and remixer in his own right (check out his 2003 album A Strangely Isolated Place and especially its song “On My Own”). The band’s new album, their fourth, is fittingly titled Always Returning and is due out in North America on September 16 via Kscope.

We have the honor of premiering the video for Always Returning single “Fight or Flight.” The retro looking clip features repeating super-8 feeling footage that perfectly complements the band’s vibe.

Peters explains the genesis of the song and the video: “I helped Ulrich (Schnauss who plays synths in Engineers too) out as a sound guy on his U.S tour in 2013 and on that trip he said that I write good songs to drive in California to, so I wrote this song when we came home with the atmosphere of the long scenic drives of California in my mind. Ulrich completed the circle by playing a prophet synth on the track that he bought from the Guitar Center in L.A. on that tour. The video was mainly filmed in West Yorkshire but features a cameo from a butterfly at the end that flew into my studio and got trapped behind the window. I thought it was the perfect metaphor for the song so filmed it trying to get out for a bit before helping it to fly away.”