Ima Robot - 'Song 1' (Virgin)
4/5
By: Toby L
A dousing of Devo enlaced with a sense of the macabre, and a frantic, punk-ish quirk, and - with just their second release - Ima Robot still sound like one of the world's greatest new bands.
And, partly, it's down to a sheer, thunderous lack of inhibition; nothing is out of reach in 'Song 1' - with radar-blipping synths, ferocious drum-action and shaky, contorted vox just a shimmy away in every heart-racing instant. Like the finer things in life too, it ends just before you've been able to truly grasp and fathom it: all the more an incentive for a repeated airing or six...
Artists in this article: Ima Robot
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