They subsequently joined with Ron Hawkins of The Lowest of the Low to form the band Hummer for a one-album project in 1997 before launching Fembots.
[2] Fembots' first album, Mucho Cuidado[3][4] introduced their distinctive style of music with toys and power tools as instruments in their songs.
[11] The City moved the FemBots sound in a new direction, as they used more traditional instruments, while maintaining the distinctive emotion and creativity found in their previous albums.
[12][13] While making their 2008 album, Calling Out, FemBots contributed two songs to the 2007 film The Tracey Fragments, a soundtrack done by Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene.
[18] Although never formally breaking up, FemBots became inactive following that album; members spent the next several years as touring session musicians with The Weakerthans.