Big Reef

Brothers on the borderline of something…

Big Reef are curious people. The pair shroud everything they do in an inpenetrable cloud of sarcasm, absurdity and irreverence. But at the centre of that cloud lies a suite of strong, disarming, fully-realised, unique, contemporary pop songs, finessed and crafted almost to a point of dissonance when juxtaposed against their online and on-stage antics ...and that's kind of the point of it all.

As Big Reef, Morgan and Hayden Quinn employ a broad palette of musical and production motifs borrowed from the new-wave and post-punk scenes of the 1980s, funneling them into modern contemporary indie-pop songs. The pairs’ writing process is studio-based and explorative, resulting in production-focused songwriting: written and produced simultaneously from behind the mixing desk rather than in the rehearsal room.

Big Reef are quickly becoming a must-see live act, pulling favourable crowds up and down the east coast of Australia to witness their hot-desk style instrument juggling, irreverent and engaging stage banter and inspired accompanying live visual show, which deepens the lore of the Big Reef universe with each performance.

The Brothers Reef draw on influences such as Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, The 1975 and Talk Talk, syphoning them into their works. Big Reef present a collection of music that is tonally diverse, but presented within a window of discourse that is stylistically firm and familiar.