draconian - 1-14-2004 at 05:22 PM
A reasonably positive review comes from THE BBC this week:
Ima Robot - Ima Robot - album
by: Mattias 12 January 04
"Ima Robot is an entirely synthetic synth-pop band, consisting of a couple of Beck's former back-up musicians and an unstable lead singer
named Alex Ebert. Their resurrection of 80s New Wave is conscious and unabashed to the point of self-parody, both in their music and their appearance
(misshapen mullets, ridiculously oversized sunglasses). To its credit, the L.A.-based quintet does mine a variety of bands in their generational
nostalgia: Devo, "Fashion"-era David Bowie (see especially track six "Dirty Life"
, Thomas Dolby and whoever wrote the soundtrack to the Nintendo game "Super Mario Bros." Ebert has, for his
part, perfected the jittery, caffeinated delivery and mastered the faux British accent necessary to successfully make the canon of the weirdo genre.
In spite, or perhaps precisely because of all this parody and pastiche, this album is a guilty pleasure of mine at the moment--they are, after all,
copying some of the best. "
lomax - 1-15-2004 at 12:56 AM
does this mean the albums out soon?