Active from 1999 | Genre Rock | |
Albums Hard Facts Are Still Uncertain, Sooner Or Later Or Not, Don't Turn Me Off, Goodbye/Goodluck, CD-R EP Club #3 Record labels Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, Knw-Yr-Own Records, The Gift Machine Similar D+, Bret Lunsford, Karl Blau, Your Heart Breaks, Phil Elverum Profiles | ||
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The Gift Machine is an American band, led by the Pacific Northwest born Dave Matthies. Matthies has collaborated with many different people and the band has gone through several line up changes over the years. From 1998-2006 he lived in Anacortes, Washington, and ran a recording studio at the now defunct venue, the Department of Safety. He also worked with Bret Lunsford of the low-fi pop band Beat Happening, running KNW-YR-OWN records and putting on the annual What the Heck Fest. Matthies has worked live and in the studio with the Microphones/Mount Eerie, Little Wings, the Begulls, Karl Blau, D+, LAKE, the Graves, Laura Veirs, Thanksgiving, the Murder City Devils. Matthies currently resides in rural North County San Diego with his wife Andrea Gruber Matthies, who also sings and plays drums in the band.
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The Gift Machine has released six albums, two EPs, and several songs on compilations since the band first appeared in 1999, on labels such as KNW-YR-OWN, Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records and PIAPTIK.
Songs
Borrowed Time and Water4-Way Split · 2008
Telemetric MayhemHard Facts Are Still Uncertain · 2015
Goodbye/Goodluck2009