Southern Lord Recordings

The second and most important album from Engine Kid : ”Angel Wings” turns 30 years old today! In celebration of this absolutely surreal fact (!!!!) the remastered version (including 1 song not originally on the session: “Angel Dust” which was mixed by Brad Wood) is now available via all streaming platforms.

(The Coltrane cover: “Ole” is vinyl only).

Deluxe 2xLp with Stoughton gatefold jacket available via the Kid Bandcamp or our store.
AND!!! ANGEL WINGS IS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE FROM BANDCAMP, (for a limited time)

https://enginekidsl.bandcamp.com/album/angel-wings

Here are some words from each of the Kids’:

Precise, exacting, relentless. Those days of preparation in advance of recording Angel Wings was a time for me where I felt like a complete musician. 6 days a week, 4 hours a day for 6 weeks: of sweat and passion. With all three of us on a collective mission to bring it home; and I still hear it in the work 30 years later. (With gratitude to John Goodmanson for his stewardship and production)

JD 🗡️

“30 years! It doesn’t sound a day older than 25. Actually, it sounds and feels just as it did when we recorded it. I cherish Angel Wings and the memories of those sessions and look forward to the 50th anniversary.”

A little cheesy, but that’s me.
Krafty

After amassing a very decent arsenal of new songs we headed into the studio to record our first full-length for Revelation. We chose to work with John Goodmanson again this time at Bad Animals studio in downtown Seattle. The diversity of our songwriting could almost be heard as sounding schizophrenic. At one moment we were bludgeoning a riff to a bloody pulp (Lies Like Knives) and the next evoking melancholic melodicism (Stitches). We would quickly turn angular yet disjointed cacophony into fist pumping hypnotic undulation. It was an elevation of the quiet/loud juxtaposition to new heights. We capped the whole thing off with a enthusiastic, heavy rendition of John Coltranes” OLE’ with close friends Bill Herzog-(Upright bass), Joel Phelps-Silkworm (Saxophone) and once again Tim Midgett (Trumpet). These recordings were released as the “Angel Wings” album on Revelation Records in 1995.

Greg Anderson.