''Calling Out'' is the fourth album by Canadian indie rock band

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, released on September 16, 2008, with

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

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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.Fembots detail ''Calling Out''
punknews.org In addition to Souster and the FemBots, the album also features Nathan Lawr and

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Track listing

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

References

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