Immaculate Machine

Immaculate Machine — the name comes from a Paul Simon song — were an indie rock trio from Victoria, British Columbia. Longtime friends Brooke Gallupe on guitar and vocals, Kathryn Calder on keyboard and vocals and Luke Kozlowski on drums and vocals formed the band in October 2002, self-releasing The View EP in 2003 and the full-length Transporter in 2004. A show in Vancouver caught the ear of Mint Records, who signed them in the spring of 2005 and put out Ones and Zeroes later that year, followed by Les Uns Mais Pas Les Autres, an EP of French versions of six of its tracks, the year after. Calder also played piano and sang on the New Pornographers' Twin Cinema and joined the tour that came with it. For 2007's Fables the band brought in outside instrumentation — musical saw, strings, backing vocals from Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos. High on Jackson Hill followed in 2009.