mark peters: innerland

Innerland is the first ever solo album by Engineers co-founder/songwriter and Ulrich Schnauss collaborator, Mark Peters. It was originally released as a low-key limited-edition cassette late in 2017, but it sold out immediately through word of mouth and the backing of BBC Radio 6 Music's Lauren Laverne and Gideon Coe, Uncut magazine, and Caught By The River. It has now been re-landscaped into a larger-scale, eight-track album. A collection of instrumentals, with nods to Brian Eno, Talk Talk, Richard Thompson, Vini Reilly, and Felt's Maurice Deebank, Innerland highlights Mark's incredible musicianship, positioning his guitar rather than his voice as the focal point of the music. It also finds him reconnecting with his youth and rediscovering a sense of place, following a move back home to northwest England in late 2016, with all the songs named after local places and landmarks.