PREVIEW: Amy & The Engine @ The Red Room

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Amy & The Engine sounds like a hug: warm, comforting, and exactly what you fail to realize is necessary from time-to-time. If we could fit a genre to that description, we would. But, for now, we’ll give the Berklee-born six-piece “indie-pop,” which you can check out TOMORROW at The Red Room @ Cafe 939.

And like a loving embrace, this show’s FREE.

The group formed about a year ago but takes root in the childhood of frontwoman Amy Allen. Before the machine, Amy (just Amy) picked up a guitar at the age of nine. Soon enough, her love affair with songwriting led to three acoustic EPs and her enrollment at music school in Boston. That’s where the engine comes in, nominating Allen’s project as 2014’s “Best New Act in New England.”

After giving songs like the breakout hit “Last Forever” a listen, the title seems fit. Amy and her machine pull off 50s inspiration without trapping the song in a high school gymnasium. Twangy guitar builds and stops, making the whole thing easy to sway to, and Allen’s voice upkeeps everything that’s undeniably pleasant. In any track, her musical background is as obvious as her soul. This one just particularly makes everything seem huggable.

Amy & The Engine’s debut EP Tandem Mania drops September 15th. Check out the new track “Patience” below alongside some Squishy Sandwich Art. Then, hit up The Red Room tomorrow night at 8 p.m. It’s free, but you’re worth it.

That…came out wrong. *offers internet hug*