Artist description The Robot Ate Me produces wistful art pop, which is catchy, fun, random and sad at once. The record due out in December, They Ate Themselves, was created with a combination of guitars, accordions, saxophones, toy pianos, organs, power saws, old analog synths, and just about anything nearby that made a sound. As the work of one quiet 22 year old and his collaboration with other San Diego veterans, The Robot Ate Me produces some of the most fresh sounding and heartfelt music around. This is music made for the odd and lonely.

Music Style acoustic, accordion, wistful art rock.

Musical Influences everything that makes a sound or doesn't

Similar Artists Microphones/Songs: Ohia/Tom Waits/Velvet Underground/Elliot Smith/Flaming Lips/Radiohead/Mercury Rev/Modest Mouse/Smiths/Sea and Cake/Nick Drake/Death Cab For Cutie/Beck/Pavement/Neutral Milk Hotel

Group Members ryland bouchard: voice, guitar, accordion, organ, toy piano, old analog synths, wurlitzer, typwriter, saxophone, air organ, & accorgan. bill haworth: drums, accordion, synth, dynabone, toy piano, power saw and harmonica. david greenberg: drums (live).

Instruments accordion, sax, vocals, guitar, power saw, typewriter, drums, air organ, organs, piano, synths, violin, the air, harmonica.

Albums They Ate Themselves, December '02.

Press Reviews Highly Recommended by Insound.com (Jan 03). #1 on KSDT Radio, San Diego (Jan, Feb 03). Modern Fix (March 03) "If there's one thing this band wants you to get from this record it is to live. Live, because you only get one chance. The Robot Ate Me has ideas that make me reflect on myself which is pretty fucking cool if you ask me. Musically expect a fairly artsy ensemble (and I mean ensemble) that you might have trouble with the first time. But as you make more attempts at giving this a try it will really pay off. It's sort of cool to hear a band's out of this world ideas be somewhat similar to Modest Mouse. This one could easily be difficult for even a true Modest Mouse fan though because the broken thoughts can often be misinterpreted as incomplete. Highly recommended." San Diego City Beat (Feb 03) "Bands like Ugly Casanova have deconstructed Beck—taking the junk orchestra of funk and inserting space and decelerating where Beck would have smoked the joint. San Diego’s The Robot Ate Me continues the tradition, imagining what might happen if Pedro the Lion used every instrument in the room: guitar, accordion, synth, piano, drums, bongos, harmonica, power saw, bass, violin and frail vocals... The Robot Ate Me is not a linear experience. They’re more subdued than Casanova and less concerned with whether or not tempo changes or melodic shifts run A-B-C. A creepy, fake Eastern ambiance with bells may give way to loping, irregular circus with synth beats. But Bouchard’s vocals, sung with a hands-in-the-pockets intellectual tenderness, maintain the requisite string of pretty melody that holds their junk orchestra together quite nicely." Almostcool.org (Jan 03) "Slightly more stripped down than work by different Elephant 6 artists, this will no doubt appeal to certain fans of that collective, as well as those who can imagine a somewhat lo-fi Radiohead. Fun at times and introspective at others, the surreal lyrics seem to focus on death quite a bit for such music, but it's that juxtaposition that makes it work so well."

Location San Diego, CA - USA

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