Southeast Engine

Southeast Engine comes from Athens, a modest college town in Ohio quite unlike the famous music community in Georgia or the ancient capital of Greece. Their songs evoke the wistful country sounds of the neighboring Appalachian Mountains and also nod to the former indie-music hotbed of Dayton, Ohio, where several members grew up. Singer-guitarist Adam Remnant and drummer Leo DeLuca, both then students at Ohio University, started the group’s first lineup in 1999. Although Remnant and DeLuca have remained the only steady members, the roster later expanded to include keyboardist Michael Lachman, bassist Matthew Box, and guitarists Josh Antonuccio and Adam Torres. The band’s self-released debut, Love Is a Murder, a Mystery of Sorts, arrived in 2003; two years later came Coming to Terms with Gravity. North Carolina’s Misra Records reissued Gravity in 2007, initiating a sustained relationship with the label that yielded A Wheel Within a Wheel later that same year and From the Forest to the Sea in 2009, the latter earning some of the band’s strongest acclaim to date. On 2011’s Canary the group began incorporating Appalachian elements, with most songs centered on an invented family living in a mountain town during the Great Depression.