Josh Gurumarra - Vocals/Guitar
Samuel Mathison - Guitar
Megan Catrona - Guitar/synths
Benjamin Mitchell - Bass/Vocals
Rhys Wiggers-Stank - Guitar/synths/flute
Rachael Murphy - drums/percussion
A true sign that a band has truly made an impact is when a musical subgenre is coined in order to describe them.
Brisbane, Australia's Experience Machines is such a band.
Heavily influenced by post-rock legends Mogwai and Sigur Ros, vocalist Josh Gurumarra began to look for like-minded individuals to jam with. He found them in Sam Mathison and Rachael Murphy. What happened next (Josh falling in love with keyboardist Megan Catrona at Megan's Slowdive cover band gig), changed their musical journey altogether. The group had combined their post-rock and shoegazer leanings into a new sound: post-gazer.
They gained a cult following in Australia and New Zealand with 2002's Patina and 2005's Look On And See With All Of This, but it was only after bassist Benjamin Mitchell and multi-instrumentalist Rhys Wiggers-Stank joined for their groundbreaking 2009 album, The Loudest Quiet. Ben and Rhys's love of all things RUSH, Yes, Jethro Tull and early Pink Floyd turned the Experience Machines into the post-prog-gazer beast of a group they are today.
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'Tank' tee $35
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'Astronaut' tee $35
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'Loudest Quiet Tour' tee $45
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'Coming Through In Waves Tour' tee $35
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DISCOGRAPHY
2016 - You Are Only Coming
Through In Waves The Only Thing That Is The End Of The World Is The End Of The World (18:36)
Why Are You Destroying My Talking? (22:13) If Friends Are The Flowers In Our Lives Then Enemies Are The Weeds (35:02) |
2013 - National Anathema
National Anathema (8:05)
(With Your Lips) I Sense A Danger (3:32) In Unequal Measure (5:24) What Hasn't Been And What Never Shall Be (4:58) How Was Siberia? (5:03) Condescending Wonka Meme (7:21) My Optimism Is Finite (My Love Is Not) (6:39) Bloated Self-Indulgence (15:46) |
2009 - The Loudest Quiet
Shreds Of Humanity (3:58)
The Sun & The Moon & The Sun & The Moon (4:22) (If Bushes Were Trees) Trees Would Be Falling (5:23) Your Esperanto Paramour (4:08) Don't Try It Until You've Knocked It (6:16) The Loudest Quiet (5:41) This Thing, Called Life (7:54) |
2005 - Look On And See With All Of This
We Have Said Yes To Little
By You (4:59) Are You Up For It (4:25) Look On And See With All Of This (6:17) Like You Said To Me (2:54) He And She Like Him (4:16) They Said She And He Are No Good (3:09) We Look To Her (5:51) Can We Play With You (3:43) Yes This Is All On Me (6:02) My No Good Little (3:38) He Was All They Had (4:32) This Is Not Good At All (5:12) |
2002 - Patina
Misanthrope (3:35)
Fortune Of Reversal (4:27) You Have Some Splaining To Do (3:08) Patina (4:52) Reconcilable Differences (6:31) Let It Fester (3:49) Grasping At Straws (4:06) Opioid-Induced (4:20) When Push Comes To Shove (5:13) Misnomer (3:14) Self-Inflicted (5:11) |