"Keeping pop purity at a comfortable distance from anything resembling sentimentality."
-Metromix/RedEye Chicago
"Honest Engines prides itself in lyrical juxtaposition and poetic imagery that likely looks as beautiful on drafts of scrap paper as it sounds when sung in each other's company. Mulcahy writes a lot - and it shows"
-Lisa Balde/Entertainment Editor
Daily Herald
"Both inspirational and entertaining; local Chicago band Honest Engine’s six song album is a sweet reminder of how music is supposed to make you feel... It is refreshing to hear an unsigned local Chicago band have as crisp of a recording as Honest Engines do. Honest Engines should stand as an example for aspiring local musicians, no matter what city they reside in."
-Liz Catalano
Second Wave Music
"Layered, textured, and mature, there’s something moderately sad and somber in the underbelly of Honest Engines’s music. And though a lot of great art encompassing similar attributes tends to bore, Honest Engines approaches its music with an honesty few up-and-coming bands dare (or care) to explore."
-B. Steven White
Demo Magazine
"Akin to the Flaming Lips, Electric Soft Parade, and Robyn Hitchcock, one of Chicago’s finest indie bands has mastered the art of modernizing classic pop song-craft with an idiosyncratic panache, and has also figured out a way make it sound as if this engaging EP was recorded in a major studio with a noted producer."
-Tom Semioli
Amplifier Magazine
Chicago's Honest Engines is an energetic indie rock quintet born out of a unified desire to fuse musical influences and experiment with the timbre of simple pop music. The group recently finished a six song EP, "Don't Talk of California", which is now available.
To get a copy of "Don't Talk of California", send an email to [email protected], stop by a show, or download it on iTunes.mySpace Profile Editor
