The Mechanical Walking Robotboy

Art rockers? baroque space age nihilists ?electro-glam popsters, no one is ever quite sure how to describe the Mechanical Walking Robotboy. And to make things more confusing, the group, who's been compared to everyone from the Velvet Underground, and Ziggy period Bowie, to Radiohead and the Cure, hail from San Antonio Texas the ?Heavy Metal Capitol of the World?. Mixing equal parts ?70s Glam, ?80s post-punk and '90s electronica grooves, Robotboy has been challenging audiences over the last ten years with a strange mix of echoey guitars...

Mixing equal parts ?70s Glam, ?80s post-punk and '90s electronica grooves, Robotboy has been challenging audiences over the last ten years with a strange mix of echoey guitars, weird synthesizer noises and heavy danceable beats.


THE MECHANICAL WALKING ROBOTBOY
BABY BABY BABY WE'RE ALL DOOMED
Compulsive Recs 2000

Angrier than Radiohead, more challenging than Travis, and easier to listen to than Beta Band. The debut release from ROBOT BOY titled BABY, BABY, BABY, WE'RE ALL DOOMED combines the best of psychedelia. Tempos jump and swoop from a wild Doors-esque musical attack to something the Monkees would croon. Avant-garde and dissonant, yet still melodic. BABY while retro and sometimes abrasive, may well be the best new release in these parts in the past five years.
MELTDOWN 2000


THE MECHANICAL WALKING ROBOTBOY
SLOW
Compulsive Recs 2006

Make way, make way, for fun! A band who must confuse, while thrilling, people due to the 70's pop references, post-punk slipperiness and modern electronic mastery of mood and brusque atmospheric brevity, this album will certainly impress. It's quick, it's slick, pinched and punching. It's melodic, deviously derivative, and frothy as fuck.
So much crammed into such a little thing: just ten songs, but it feels like the world. Take a holiday people, in a furtive world of delight.
MICKMERCER.COM
22 JUNE 2006