Immaculate Machine is an indie-rock band that lives on an island. In order to move freely to and from their geographically isolated homeland, they have made a rock album called Immaculate Machine's Fables. It is a series of vignettes about traveling. The band enlisted the help of esteemed colleagues such as producers Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Pretty Girls Make Graves) and John Collins/Dave Carswell (New Pornographers, Tegan & Sara), violinist Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy, Arcade Fire), and back-up vocalists Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand) and The Cribs. Fables, the band's sophomore label effort, is due out in June and will be followed by tours of North America and Europe.

Kathryn Calder (keyboard/vocals), Brooke Gallupe (guitar/vocals) and Luke Kozlowski (drums/vocals) began Immaculate Machine with two independent releases (The View EP 2003 and Transporter LP 2004) and a bunch of shows in Canada. The trio shared the stage with fellow Canadians The Arcade Fire and The Constantines before finding a label home with Mint Records.

Immaculate Machine released its label debut on Mint in September 2005. Ones and Zeros received critical notice and made the band a hit on non-commercial radio stations in Canada. A music video for lead track "Broken Ship" was broadcast on several stations in North America, including MuchMusic in Canada. The album was supported with tours in Canada, the USA, the UK and Europe, including a support tour for Destroyer and The New Pornographers.

Incidentally, Carl Newman, frontman of The New Pornographers, is related to the band by more than just his labelmate status. He is also Kathryn's long lost uncle. Kathryn played piano and sang on The New Pornographers' album Twin Cinema, and has now taken on double duty becoming a full-time member of the band.

October 2006 saw the release of an EP of French translations of a selection of the songs from Ones and Zeros, which was met with puzzled enthusiasm. Les Uns Mais Pas Les Autres delighted bilingual and francophone fans and media. Immaculate Machine can now surprise an audience by throwing in a French chorus or an entire verse to mix it up, a proven crowd pleaser with Parisians and Francophone Canadians.