I Am Karate formed in Los Angeles in the early 2000s with Matthew Thiessen on vocals and guitar, Russell Pollard on bass, and Alex Greenwald on drums. They put out a debut EP called "Let's Make This Mess Ours" and toured steadily. In 2005, their first album "In Love and Death" included the single "Bitter," which got some attention and also drew claims that it sounded too much like other songs.
They kept making records after that, like "Love, War, and the Ghost of Jim Morrison" in 2007, "The Garden" in 2010, and "The Sea" in 2014. The sound shifted a bit across those albums, touching on pop and folk and electronics while keeping a rough, personal feel. Pollard eventually left to do other music, and Greenwald went on to start Phantom Planet.
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