[6/10] There are two bands with a very similar name. One is English shoe-gaze indie-heads Engineers, the others are grimy, sludgey American noiseniks Engineer. This is the former we’re dealing with here.

While it’s as big a step away from metal as you can probably get what Engineers do right, and where their appeal will lie for readers of this site, is build on the My Bloody Valentine blueprint. So let’s say you’re a fan of Nadja, then these mild, floating tracks will nuzzle nicely up against you. Not as fuzzed up, distorted or determined to be noisy as say MBV or Nadja, Engineers are at times a mix between Mansun or Doves with The Postal Service vocals, at others a drifting, street lit soundscape of dreamy vocals.

The hypnotic keyboard blip of “Clean Coloured Wire” acts as the perfect foil to the swirling background music and sleepy vocals delivery while “Emergency Room” drips with indie-electro noises and deadpan vocals. Album closer “What Pushed Us Together” is a gentle, slow burner full of electro-stoner feeling. Nice. At 13 tracks however, Three Fact Finder does drag on a bit, especially as there’s not a huge amount of variety across it but it’s good for an easy chill-out. Just don’t expect it to spark a huge reaction from you, unless you pick it up instead of an Engineer album in error.

www.myspace.com/egineers