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 three instrumental pieces that would become a split album with like minded powerhouse, Iceburn, the band reconvened to record the new material that was literally bleeding out of the reinvigorated trio. The songs recorded were much more progressive, heavier, harder and more focused than past works. They even tackled John Coltrane’s “OLE,” adding saxophone and trumpet from their brothers in Silkworm. In March of 1995, Revelation records released these recordings as the Angel Wings album. Unfortunately "The Kid" flew too close to the sun, and broke up very shortly after the album’s release.

Greg Anderson went on to greater renown with Sunn O))) and was also guitarist for Goatsnake. Original drummer Chris Vandebrooke was murdered at a homeless encampment near Griffith Park in December of 2016.

In 2020, the group came together again as Greg Anderson's Southern Lord Recordings were preparing to re-release Engine Kid's discography as the Everything Left Inside boxset. After sharing the previously unreleased track "Angel Dust", the band began recording new material which became the 2021 Special Olympics EP.
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