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I wanted to post about this band a year ago but couldn’t find any mp3s. Now thanks to our good friends over at Better Than Sex I have ‘Boytoy’, my favourite 100% Wool track. The Toronto two piece is Vivi on vocals/drums and Serge on vocals/bass, both combine to add keyboard parts. Together they make music that captures and reconstructs the sound of bands like Blood Red Shoes and Whirlwind Heat, combining crunching bass riffs with bratty punk lyrics and their own siren-esque voices.
The pair met and formed the band in early 2004 while working together at a Toronto broadcast design firm. Vivi, born in Hong Kong and Serge, born in Latvia have led colourful but tragic lives since forming 100% Wool. According to the band’s myspace, “a year after forming, Vivi had an allergic reaction to headache medicine sending her into a coma for four months. After coming out of the coma, Vivi was blind. What followed was a long recovery during which she regained her independence. 100% Wool then reformed.”
Since reforming the band has released an EP and a full-length album. The EP titled Monkey vs Panda came out in early 2006 and now appears to be sold out. Sheepistan, the band’s début full-length was released in 2007 and three of its ten tracks can be heard on their myspace.
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