The Wigan Little Theatre isn’t the most obvious starting point for an album that combines intricate post-rock atmospherics with the melancholy soul and beauty of pedal steel-drenched Americana. Sitting opposite the bus station, the building plays host to an amateur dramatics company, which, when Prog joins Mark Peters via Zoom from his home in the town, is gearing up for a panto run of Humpty Dumpty. And yet this handsome, austere brick building was the initial inspiration for Red Sunset Dreams, the second solo record from the bassist and guitarist for British dreampop favourites Engineers.
During lockdown, the PRS Foundation approached him to work on a project called
