Style is a funny thing. You go all your life believing you shouldn't wear stripes and checks at the same time, and one day you open up a copy of Vogue to discover that's what absolutely all the cool people are doing, leaving you to wonder what else happened while you weren't looking. Similarly, you may have thought that punk rock power chords, cheezoid /p>
ew wave synth patches, white-boy rapping, mega-ironic lyrics, and affected David Bowie-esque vocal mannerisms don't belong on the same song or even the same record, but the men of Ima Robot are here to tell you that's not what the new breed says, and they're putting it all together in one fractured get-down on their second full-length, Monument to the Masses. While the Beck-approved studio cats who appeared on Ima Robot's first album have moved on, idea men Timmy "The Terror" Anderson and Alex Ebert haven't let this slow them down, and the new lineup sounds admirably tight, with Flip Nikolic's guitar and keys bringing the ock and the high-gloss finish at the same time, and drummer Scott Devours and bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen making the rhythms tough and glossy at the same time. Lyrically, it's hard to tell when Ima Robot are serious and when they're joking, which in all probably is just the way they want it; any band who crafts a dance anthem out of obvious lifts from "God Save the Queen" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (listen to "Disconnect" for the evidence) would appear to be making a career out of sending mixed signals, and Monument to the Masses is an album that lives in a self-created Twilight Zone where ock, dance, and electro-pop cast a common shadow. Like stripes and checks, it shouldn't work together, but the results are more attractive than you'd think.
I haven’t dropped of the face of the earth but I haven’t spent enough time here lately to make me happy. Some of y’all know I’m an auditor and most organizations operate on a calendar year so I’ve been ridiculously busy. I miss the shit out of you guys. I’m even in a rut musically. I like to mix things up, but for the past few weeks I’ve been on a steady diet of Ima Robot, Gym Cla
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I definitely want to go to Iceland some day what with the no pollution and all. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to go there until I'm out of highschool. I would love to go there and Nova Scotia, that is on my "Things To Do Before I Die" list, among other things.
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Okay, so, I did my persuasive essay paper on global warming with a little help from Al Gore's website. But now, we're doing another paper, only this one is research, on a country. I wanted to do something really original, something that I knew no one else would choose, so I at first I chose Greenland, but then I found out that we had to have somebody famous from there in our paper and I couldn'...
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ok so this is our first post. this website looks fresh boiiii. stay tuned for more as we get in the swing of postage. right now we r in LA playing west coast shows and getting ready for 2007. 2007?? doesnt that sound fucked up? its almost 2010? then what? huhhh? anyways, we have a show on saturday in LA, then sunday in san francisco at the Fillmore with our old friends The Sounds. go...
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I haven’t dropped of the face of the earth but I haven’t spent enough time here lately to make me happy. Some of y’all know I’m an auditor and most organizations operate on a calendar year so I’ve been ridiculously busy. I miss the shit out of you guys. I’m even in a rut musically. I like to mix things up, but for the past few weeks I’ve been on a steady diet of Ima Robot, Gym Cla
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I definitely want to go to Iceland some day what with the no pollution and all. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to go there until I'm out of highschool. I would love to go there and Nova Scotia, that is on my "Things To Do Before I Die" list, among other things.
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Okay, so, I did my persuasive essay paper on global warming with a little help from Al Gore's website. But now, we're doing another paper, only this one is research, on a country. I wanted to do something really original, something that I knew no one else would choose, so I at first I chose Greenland, but then I found out that we had to have somebody famous from there in our paper and I couldn'...
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ok so this is our first post. this website looks fresh boiiii. stay tuned for more as we get in the swing of postage. right now we r in LA playing west coast shows and getting ready for 2007. 2007?? doesnt that sound fucked up? its almost 2010? then what? huhhh? anyways, we have a show on saturday in LA, then sunday in san francisco at the Fillmore with our old friends The Sounds. go...
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