Review courtesy www.campus-web.de:

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VOe 29 September 2003/Virgin

"IMA Robot (spoken: I'm A Robot) leave a promising impression with their debut album directly. The five Twens from the Schwarzeneggerstaat California are cooler than the Glamboys of The Ark, and more playful than David Bowie. And therefore they do not take the music so bitter-seriously, as the Songtitel of the plate lets that assume. They are at least as rotzig as the Canadian Hot Hot Heat.

At each time live to convince they know, showed the IMA Robot with the Terremoto Festival of this year. In the morning near 12 - if the world still in order is - rockten it the small public and animated verkaterte music-inspired to dancing. The volume was in such a way ambitioniert that they destroyed their drums also for the small quantity of approx. thirty spectators? an ingenious Gig.

With Josh Abraham have it by the way the same producer as Limp Bizkit, Linkin park, grain and Crazy Town. And indeed the plate is professionally merged - of new one Metal sounds however no trace. Rather a mixture from decaying skirt and new Wave with Punk singing, which rueberbringen the young live at least so well, as clay/tone carrier. In addition, that was to be expected. Finally participate two former of Beck, with Joey Waronker (schlagzeug) and Justin Meldal Johnson (bass guitar), also.

Singer Alex Ebert (geb. 1978, son of an actress and a psychiatrist), untwists equivalent with "Dynomite" correctly and "Song # 1" becomes afterwards still more pressureful. Here the Punk slams shut fully. Whereby IMA Robot deal much more flexibly with their instruments, as they demonstrate in "Scream" in balladeske way. An outstanding title of this plate.
"Dirty Life" is a melodischer Popohrwurm, which argues critically, but without raised index finger, with the drug consumption. In this musical style geht's with "Let's talc Turkey" further.

The Lyrics comes with nearly each Song with a winking more rueber. The Robots can take simply nothing and nobody seriously - mood makes. F... the Rules!"