Talkback: Dani Bennett Spragg Despite still being resident at London’s Hoxa HQ, 24 year‑old British‑American engineer Dani Bennett Spragg spends much time at Toast Studios as accomplice to legendary analogue obsessive Craig Silvey. Recipient of the 2019 MPG Breakthrough Engineer of the Year award, Bennett Spragg began her career as a teenager, assisting on records by Kurt Vile, Foals and Trent Reznor. She soon went on to work as a fully-fledged engineer with such artists as Baxter Dury, Blanco White and Malena Zavala, and most recently has lent her touch to albums by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Noel Gallagher, Ed O’Brien and Jarvis Cocker.