Today, Ima Robot has shared “Tumbling Down”, which reveals the band’s softer and more cinematic edge. As whole, the ditty is wonderful by how the jangling glam guitars meld with old analog synths as the band exudes the optimistic nihilism of cultural dissent. “We wrote it as an anti-fascist anthem, a spooky anarchic fuck-you folk banger to remind us that sometimes self-annihilation is the cost of courage,” says frontman Alex Ebert. “It’s one of those songs that feels even more relevant today than when it was written.”
Ima Robot has turned out to be a kind of supergroup in reverse: singer/songwriter Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros), guitarist Tim Anderson (Twenty One Pilots, Billie Eilish), bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Nine Inch Nails), multi-instrumentalist Filip Nikolic (Junior Senior, Poolside), multi-instrumentalist Oliver Goldstein (Oliver) and drummer Scott Devours (Roger Daltry, The Who).
Ima Robot built their early reputation as one of Los Angeles’ most unpredictable live acts of their time. Their shows were the stuff of legends. wild, messy, often bloody and always wholly alive. That raw electricity became the band’s signature: punk energy stitched into a quilt of genres and unfiltered emotion.
Photo Credit: Nicole Olmsted
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