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Born out of improvisation and experimentation, FemBots stretch themselves musically to produce music which is daring yet accessible.
The FemBots began as a home recording project of Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier and their debut, Mucho Cuidado (2000), featured songs written and performed on power tools, toys and broken down thrift store instruments. The duo quickly carved a unique space in the Toronto music scene bringing their post-industrial folk songs to the stage using tape loops and reel-to-reel machines mixed with often frantic live performances.
Their critically acclaimed second release, Small Town Murder Scene (2003), adopted a more atmospheric approach with traditional instrumentation and soulful laments. The third FemBots record, The City (2005), built on this earlier work while taking it up several notches with banging piano chords, catchy choruses, soulful vocals, swinging guitars, woven strings and horns. The City – that landed on several top ten lists for 2005 – pushed the stark black and white vision of their earlier albums into full Technicolor.
The FemBots originally envisioned their fourth album Calling Out (2008), as an entire album using an assortment of junkstruments, musical instruments created from garbage by artist Iner Souster. Eight months into the project it became clear that the junkstruments were simply too unpredictable and too difficult to work with to sustain an entire album.
The FemBots began as a home recording project of Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier and their debut, Mucho Cuidado (2000), featured songs written and performed on power tools, toys and broken down thrift store instruments. The duo quickly carved a unique space in the Toronto music scene bringing their post-industrial folk songs to the stage using tape loops and reel-to-reel machines mixed with often frantic live performances.
Their critically acclaimed second release, Small Town Murder Scene (2003), adopted a more atmospheric approach with traditional instrumentation and soulful laments. The third FemBots record, The City (2005), built on this earlier work while taking it up several notches with banging piano chords, catchy choruses, soulful vocals, swinging guitars, woven strings and horns. The City – that landed on several top ten lists for 2005 – pushed the stark black and white vision of their earlier albums into full Technicolor.
The FemBots originally envisioned their fourth album Calling Out (2008), as an entire album using an assortment of junkstruments, musical instruments created from garbage by artist Iner Souster. Eight months into the project it became clear that the junkstruments were simply too unpredictable and too difficult to work with to sustain an entire album.
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The City
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Small Town Murder Scene
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Calling Out
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Mucho Cuidado
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Count Down Our Days
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My Hands Are A City
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Prison Memoirs Of An Anarchist
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Broken And Blue
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Hand Print In Wet Cement
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GOOD DAYS
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A Million Dead End Jobs
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So Long
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Hell
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God Keep Our Hands Clean
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My Life In The Funeral Service
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D.D. Drevnoir
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Shoutbox
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mmarkb wrote:
a fine discovery-- how are they not bigger? or am I out of the loop?
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lydiapineapple wrote:
does anyone have The City and if so, are they willing to share. :3
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natabrusnika wrote:
=) like
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quaint_presence wrote:
The City keeps on surprising me, over and over.
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fjersnam wrote:
don't wanna be your maaaAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
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CoolItCasanova wrote:
Damnit, I really want to listen to these guys. But I can't get my hands on an album. D:
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alongwaltz wrote:
Dig Circus!
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stampit wrote:
Love me love me..
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dsenos wrote:
Heard them on CBC Radio 3. Props for being Canadian.
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qaerify3 wrote:
meh
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Le1gh wrote about FemBots in The best songs from the last 10 YEARS,. January 2010
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mutematthew added FemBots to the lineup of Wavelength 500 at Music Gallary, SPK, Steamwhistle Brewery, Sneaky Dee's, The.... December 2009
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