From Citybeat.com:A special warning to all those preparing a time capsule to define today's popular culture: Do not include Ima Robot's self-titled debut. Materializing in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, the band has recently created a loud buzz for themselves by their blatant musical anachronisms that mix various elements of the '70s, '80s and '90s scenes. This sound can almost be easily described. Almost. Remove their keyboards, and you have found a mainly light Punk band. Remove their distortion pedals, and you have a New Wave quintet. Keep all of their components together and you find yourself listening to an album that slurs itself between dance-party tracks to anthems about anarchy, sex and drug liberation; it's like an upbeat mix tape where all the tracks are coincidentally by the same artist. This should not come as a surprise after perusing their bio. Their lineup includes two alums of many Beck recordings, Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass and Joey Waronker, doing a standout job drumming. And this album shows that they've carried over a lot of the grooves they had in their minds and hands when helping to produce Beck's Midnite Vultures album. The lead singer, Alex Ebert, has a ridiculously strong British accent for being born and raised in L.A., but for some reason it works without fault and adds a subtle BritPop feel to the CD (as if their SynthPunk, half-Glam, futuristically raw sound needed another layer added to it). Based solely on the rabid energy the five of them pressed into this debut CD, it would be extremely safe to assume that their live show will be a romp that could provide anything from mosh-pit induced bloody lips to sincere petting with your current fling. (Jacob Richardson)