Press Coverage and News Features
August 07, 2020
Dating From a Social Distance
"Nick Eng, 23, a Reno musician and singer-songwriter, said things were going well for him in the Before Times."
-Frank X. Mullen, Reno News and Review
January 15, 2020
Poprock Record’s 25 Must-have LPs for 2019
"This year’s best-of round up of LPs from 2019 is definitive proof that everything old can be new again!"
-Dennis Pilon, Poprock Records
September 11, 2019
Nick Eng - Tahoe Weekly
"Independent recording artist Nick Eng is a singer/songwriter with a contemporary take on shimmery jangle pop."
-Tahoe Weekly
July 13, 2019
Nick Eng Faces Sentimental Frustration with Sublime Songs
"Although in his first work of 2018, Nick Eng delved into love with joy and passion, in this second album entitled Long Shot released this 2019 by You are The Cosmos, their songs are more introspective, they even tend to pessimism or anger as a result of some personal experience not exactly satisfactory."
-Alex Martí Puig, Magic Pop Magazine
March 25, 2019
College Dating Games Inspire Nick Eng’s New Pop-rock Album, ‘Long Shot’
"Brimming with jangly pop rockers (some that, yes, have that mid-’60s Fab Four vibe), it offers a more mature, introspective and — often — exasperated take on the trials and troubles of winning over the heart and mind of a prospective (and typically fickle) romantic partner than Eng’s previous songs that have garnered local radio play and fan streaming, such as, 'The One for You Is Me' and 'Reminiscing.'"
-Mike Sion, Reno Arts News
December 26, 2018
RGJ Best Local Songs of 2018 Results: The Top 30 Music Entries
"A consummate and consistent professional on stage and in the studio, University of Nevada, Reno student Eng continues to craft pop-rock songs with early-1960s aesthetics that demand sweet sentiments and simple rhymes, straightforward top lines and clean guitar lines."
-Mike Sion, Reno Gazette Journal
January 09, 2018
Reno Songwriter Nick Eng Rocks Harder with Album-release Show Jan. 26
"Nick Eng — one of a handful of talented young Reno musicians producing original music and consistently playing professional gigs — is releasing his first official album of his irrepressibly catchy, poppy, self-penned rock songs at an all-ages CD-release show Jan. 26."
-Mike Sion, Reno Gazette Journal