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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.
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  • mmarkb

    a fine discovery-- how are they not bigger? or am I out of the loop?

    December 2009

  • lydiapineapple

    does anyone have The City and if so, are they willing to share. :3

    July 2009

  • natabrusnika

    =) like

    July 2009

  • quaint_presence

    The City keeps on surprising me, over and over.

    June 2008

  • fjersnam

    don't wanna be your maaaAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!

    June 2008

  • CoolItCasanova

    Damnit, I really want to listen to these guys. But I can't get my hands on an album. D:

    December 2007

  • alongwaltz

    Dig Circus!

    October 2007

  • stampit

    Love me love me..

    May 2007

  • dsenos

    Heard them on CBC Radio 3. Props for being Canadian.

    November 2006

  • qaerify3

    meh

    May 2006
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