Calling Out is the fourth album by Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band FemBots

FemBots

FemBots are a Canadian indie rock band, originating from Toronto, Ontario. Originating members Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier also travel with The Weakerthans on tour...

, released on September 16, 2008 with Weewerk

Weewerk

Weewerk, stylized as ', is an independent folk, roots, bluegrass, country record label and artist-management company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 2002 as an art-and-music salon series in the apartment of Teenage USA Recordings partner Phil Klygo and artist-curator Germaine Koh...

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The album was originally intended to use only junk instruments created out of garbage

Waste

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 by guest musician Iner Souster. However, the band reportedly found the instruments were not sufficiently reliable to form the basis of the entire album, and instead added some conventional instrumentation while retaining the junk instruments on the songs' rhythm tracks.

In addition to Souster and the FemBots, the album also features Nathan Lawr

Nathan Lawr

Nathan Lawr is a Canadian singer-songwriter, currently fronting the band Minotaurs.The original drummer for Royal City, Lawr left the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career...

 and Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.-History:Born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal before settling in Winnipeg in 1992.In 1993, she formed her first group,...

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Track listing

1. "Good Days"
2. "Can I Be Your Mirror"
3. "My Hands Are a City"
4. "Get in the Van"
5. "God Keep Our Hands Clean"
6. "JL Recalls His Amazon Adventure from a Comfortable Chair in the Window of No. 5 The Kingsway"
7. "Hand Print in Wet Cement"
8. "Lost At Sea"
9. "The Ballad of Lucybelle Carter"
10. "The End of the Day"
11. "Ship Breaking"