Ima Robot: American Band You Should Know
Hey guys, sorry for missing last week but hopefully this week makes up for it!
To be honest, I’ve been a little hard-pressed lately to find American bands I’m really digging. They all seem to be Canadian, dammit.
So after much prodding and poking around, I’ve settled on Ima Robot from Los Angeles, who not only have a catchy name, but have catchy music. Despite the fact that Ima Robot’s music competes well with the “best” of indie dance rock like Hot Hot Heat and Louis XIV, for some reason, those bands caught on but Ima Robot never really did. Their upcoming album, still untitled and slated to be self-released, boasts their new single, “Sail With Me,” which features calm xylophone-esque rhythms and energetic hooting and hollering that have long been staples of Ima Robot. In “Gangster,” the band begins sounding more like Louis XIV backed with retro instrumentation. Their vocalist Alex Ebert is charismatic and erratic in his delivery when he is least hampered by convention, and the band manages time and again to make distinctive music.
To throw it back a little, their 2003 self-titled release is also constantly on rotation in my CD player, five years later. “Philosophofee” and “Dirty Life” (especially “Dirty Life”) are ever at the top of the list. So if their MySpace doesn’t impress you, don’t write them off just yet and get yourself some of their back catalog.
Listen to some new tracks on their MySpace page.
- Vivian
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