Artist.......: Fembots
Album........: Calling Out
Label........: Weewerk
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: Weewerk026
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-16-2008
str.date.....: Sept-16-2008
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.fembots.net
track title time
01. Good Days 04:22
02. Can I Be Your Mirror? 03:40
03. My Hands Are A City 04:49
04. Get In The Van 03:45
05. God Keep Our Hands Clean 03:44
06. JL Recalls His Amazon Adventure From A 03:45
Comfortable Chair In The Window Of No.5 The Kingsway
07. Hand Print In Wet Cement 03:13
08. Lost At Sea 03:45
09. The Ballad Of Lucybelle Carter 03:53
10. The End Of The Day 04:44
11. Ship Breaking 05:08
Runtime 44:48 min
Size 59,2 MB
Release Notes:
From the Weewerk web site:
About to release their fourth album, Calling Out
(2008) on (weewerk), FemBots have set off in yet
another new direction while in many ways returning
to their beginnings.
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 but taking it up several notches
with banging piano chords, catchy choruses, soulful
vocals, swinging guitars, woven strings and horns.
The City û that landed on several top ten lists for
2005 û pushed the stark black and white vision of
their earlier albums into full technicolor.
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 simply were too unpredictable and too
difficult to work with to sustain an entire album.
Rather than scraping the project entirely, the
FemBots used the junkstrument instrumentals they
had recorded as rhythm tracks, the rock and roll
chassis that the rest of the songs are built on.
Calling Out also marks another departure for
FemBots. This is the first time Dave MacKinnon and
Brian Poirier have collaborated with other
musicians during every stage of the writing and
recording process. In the past MacKinnon and
Poirier wrote the songs, then brought in other
musicians to fill out the arrangements. With
Calling Out the songs were built up from
improvisations with Iner Souster and drummer Nathan
Lawr.
The result is a collection of pop and rock songs
built on a foundation of odd sounding home made
instruments, producing in the end their most
straightforward and strangest record to date. With
each new album the FemBots transform in ways
unforeseen, yet strangely familiar, honing a new
style from the old.
Would sound great on a mix tape or your ipod with:
Califone, Latin Playboys, Wilco, My Morning Jacket,
Chad Van Gaalen, Octoberman, United Steel Workers
Of Montreal, Buffalo Tom, Miracle Fortress,
Sunparlour Players