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EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: FemBots - Count Down Our Days

FemBots released their third LP The City through Paper Bag Records back in 2005. If you're unfamiliar with Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier's dreamy, soulful, acoustic-goodness you're in for a treat today as we've blown the metaphorical dust off one of our favourite tracks "Count Down Our Days" for your aural pleasure.

The City revealed a rich, authentic sound that built upon the FemBots earlier work whilst moving the band in an exciting new direction. Banging piano chords, catchy choruses, soulful vocals, swinging guitars, woven string and horns pushed the stark black and white vision of their earlier albums into full technicolor bloom, all the while remaining true to the emotional core of the songs. 

At its heart The City is a homage to the band’s hometown, Toronto – its victories and failures, told in vignettes of everyday life, odes to lost neighborhoods and laments for a place whose history is being buried under waves of condo development. However, the FemBots were never jaded; their love for their city also comes through clearly on this album. At times raucous and loud, at others mournful and haunting, The City became the FemBots most personal and beautiful album to date.

Download: FemBots - Count Down Our Days

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