Matt: I clearly remember dancing to John Farnham, Phil Collins and Amy Grant with my sister in our lounge room when we were very young. My parents always had records playing in the house when we were growing up, so music was always around and just floating through the house, especially in summer. Dad would usually put on Zeppelin when mum was out - I remember him blowing up our speakers playing the intro to Moby Dick really loud one day. My dad plays guitar, so I remember fumbling around with an acoustic guitar in early high school but not really committing to anything. I started playing drums in year 8 and getting really into music from there - heaps into punk stuff and then later hardcore and post hardcore bands. I still love the rawness and energy of that kind of music - it conveys a lot of emotion. I kind of just collected instruments along the way - started playing guitar in later high school, learning how to use synths and then it just progressed into writing and thinking really intentionally about engineering and using that as a creative tool. The relationship between words, melody and chords just really fascinates me. It's like a venn diagram and the challenge of trying to find that sweet spot in the middle where everything just comes together.