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As nu-metal and the last vestiges of grunge have waned, the popular embrace of "real" or "garage" rock has caused an uptick of ultrafashionable musicians who artfully subtract the more inaccessible parts of genres like slutty punk rock, fey new wave, and goth, and use the highly brand-identifiable remainder to spruce up what are essentially hooky pop songs. Hot Hot Heat and Yeah Yeah Yeahs have each performed this operation with skill; now, Ima Robot wants a piece of the action. The quintet is led by the histrionic yelp of Alex Ebert, who sounds like Suede's Brett Anderson doing a Johnny Rotten impersonation and sports a bizarre haircut suggestive of Zan from the Wonder Twins. Besides a guitarist and electronicist, the band also includes bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen and drummer Joey Waronker, two session pros who are also veterans of Beck's band. The L.A. force is strong in these guys, and it shows in the refined, curiously vapid quality of their music. "Dynomite," "Song, No. 1," and "Alive" are the first three songs on the album, but they're also the most representative (barring the cheeky, effete rap of "Black Jettas"). The songs can be called so much -- glammy punk, the Escape Club meets Love and Rockets -- but when the makeup comes off they're just well-done pop songs, as much sticky fun as a fruit roll-up, but unfortunately just as substantive. Ima Robot -- especially the lyrically and visually outrageous Ebert -- seem to understand this. It seems to be part of the fun to reference the right references while rocking the cheap seats with easy power chords ("A Is for Action") and mashups of Bowie and electro-pop ("Philosophee"). And maybe it is fun, depending on your point of view. After all, many of the groups Ima Robot pays tribute to were equally as empty. But Ima Robot's fancy, yet expensively dirty version of this game just seems particularly affected, and ultimately too derivative to fully enjoy. ~ Johnny Loftus
Recorded at Pulse Recordings, Los Angeles, California; NRC Studios, North Hollywood, California.
Ima Robot: Alex Ebert (vocals); Oliver Goldstein (guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming); Tim Anderson (guitar, programming, background vocals); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (bass, progamming, background vocals); Joey Waronker (drums, percussion, programming, background vocals).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Spin (10/03, p.113) - "...Like Grandaddy, they know the future isn't glitch-free, but they're gonna throw a damn good party anyway..." - Grade: B+
CMJ (9/8/03, p.4) - "...You will dance to this....Still think punk can't get funky? Time to do the Robot."e
Mojo (Publisher) (3/04, p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[The album] meshes the oddball with the serious in a quirky, plastic-punk manner..." Ima Robot Music | List Price | $9.99 (You save $2.24) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Alternative, Rock, Enhanced CD | | Label | Virgin | | Orig Year | 2003 | | All Time Sales Rank |  41678  | | CD Universe Part number | 6263931 | | Catalog number | 43798 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 16, 2003 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Josh Abraham | | Engineer | Ryan Williams | | Personnel | Justin Meldal-Johnsen - bass, progamming, background vocals
Oliver Goldstein - guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming
Alex Ebert - vocals
Tim Anderson - guitar, programming, background vocals
Joey Wa - drums, percussion, programming, background vocals
| | Additional Info | Enhanced CD |
Ima Robot Music Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Not bad
These songs take me back to the 'good old days' of new-wave. Although they deny it in interviews, Ima Robot have definitely been influenced by some of those early 80's new wave pioneers. Pete Shelly comes to mind when Alex sings the chorus on Dynomite. If you're a fan of early 80's new wave, you just have to check these guys out.
Submitted by Rick (Portland, OR)
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I think that Ima Robot is the greatest band ever! I haven't missed a show here in Colorado, and don't plan on missing any ever. I just absolutely love these guys, their music is awesome and they are incredible on stage. I LOVE them so much, they are just amazing!!!
Submitted by Kayana (Loveland, CO, USA)
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IMA Robot is so great because they don't sound like anyone else right now, they are definitely breaking some barriers for music right now.They're not one of those emo bands that sound like evryone else.
Submitted by Eva (Ontario, CA USA)
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Believe the hype, grab your dancing shoes and buy this CD!
IMA Robot's live show is in a league of it's own. The intensity of this experience isn't lost in it's translation onto CD. I haven't been this excited about a new band in years.
Submitted by Leigh (Vancouver)
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This is one of the best bands I've hear in a long time. I saw them live at a HotHotHeat concert. They blew me away with dynomite, while talking dirty about their dirty life. I definitely recommed this album to any one.
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MAKE UP THE BREAKDOWN, despite being Hot Hot Heat's first full-length album, is a bright, assured blast of fresh air that's at its dayglo best on tracks such as the tricky pop of "Naked in the City Again" and the punky "Bandages." But the strong hint that Hot Hot Heat have more to offer than your everyday retro-wavers is contained in the wiry guitar sounds of "Save Us S.O.S." and the atmospheric closer "Cairo," as well as in the off-kilter rhythms and smart, wry lyrics that pop up throughout.
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Elefant frontman Diego Garcia must have memorized nearly every song by the Cure while he was growing up, because his band's debut album, Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid, is a shameless, abstract pop mix, a solid indie pop record heavy in new wave aesthetics. Tripping Two-Tone percussion swirls around glossy synth beats, and Garcia's Morrissey-like dark vocal softness fits his passionate, undying lyrical wishes for that perfect love. One listen to the shimmery synth waves of "Tonight Let's Dance" will reel you into Garcia's storybook imagination, which is both poetically sweet and wild. Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid isn't defenseless with its innocence either, for Mod's feverish guitar work ...
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There's a creepy goth veneer crawling underneath Stills lead singer Tim Fletcher's vocals as he sings lines of timeless ennui such as "I'm just so bored of wasting my time/love and death are always on my mind," an undercurrent of dread not unlike Robert Smith or Morrissey coming down from a particularly potent sadness bender. Even happy-sounding titles like LOGIC WILL BREAK YOUR HEART's opening single "Still in Love Song," are portraits in lurking danger, and about-to-boil-over lust and anger. And it works; as overlapping guitars somewhere between power pop and new wave swirl around the intricate, neurotically-Nietzsche-ian ...
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The centerpiece is "Take Me Out" (a U.K. top ten hit), which plays out a series of come-ons between rival assassins, over what begins as a sneering slice of mid-1990s Britpop, only to morph into a funky dance-floor tune. Kapranos is often quoted as saying that the band was started in order to "make music that girls can dance to," but this unusually assured debut is quite likely to affect discriminating boys in exactly the same way.
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Much in the manner of their previous album, ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND, U2 largely strips down the stadium-sized approach of years past on the provocatively titled HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB. Whether they were inspired by the garage-rock revival that took place in between the two records, or just felt like making some visceral rock & roll, this 2004 release has as much unbridled energy as such early U2 benchmarks as BOY or WAR. The album starts with a bang, courtesy of the charging, angular "Vertigo," whose driving bass line and shouted vocals announce the band's intentions in no uncertain terms.
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THALIA was nomimated for the 2003 Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album.
Gloria Estefan did it back in the 1980s, Selena was poised to do it in the '90s before her tragic end, Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias were the most recent Latin music stars to crossover to English-language success before Thalia offered her foray into the Anglopop pool. THALIA opens with a bouncy R&B tune set to the bassline of Big Pun's "Still Not A Player," as the established Tejano singer ably trades lines with Fat Joe. Through the next five songs, Thalia displays her multifaceted musical skills, sampling different angles of the R&B/dance-pop scene, from club-banger "Don't Look Back" to the seductively naughty "Another Girl."
The gifted vocalist shines brightest at the center of the record on ultra-catchy uber-ballads "Closer To You" and "Save the Day," delivering in Alanis mode on the former and a Macy Gray vibe on the latter. From there, THALIA delves into the familiar, with a translation of her brilliantly dizzying, horn-laden 2002 hit "Tu Y Yo," followed by a Hex Hector remix of another track from that album, and four Spanish-language versions of other tracks on THALIA.
Gloria Estefan did it back in the '80s, Selena was poised to do it in the '90s before her tragic end, Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias were the most recent Latin music stars to crossover to English-language success before Thalia offered her foray into the Anglopop pool. THALIA opens with a bouncy R&B tune set to the bassline of Big Pun's "Still Not A Player," as the established Tejano singer ably trades lines with Fat Joe. Through the next five songs, Thalia displays her multifaceted musical skills, sampling different angles of the R&B/dance-pop scene, from club-banger "Don't Look Back" to the seductively naughty "Another Girl."
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Austin, TX, is one of America's great cities for live music, and the PBS series Austin City Limits has long been one of television's best showcases for country and roots music, so it's not exactly surprising that the folks behind ACL decided to step things up to the next level and start their own music festival. The 2004 edition of the three-day festival featured a wildly eclectic variety of material, but while that may have been a boon for concertgoers, it doesn't do as much for this ...
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