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Robot Face

2015 studio album by Caravan Palace

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ20648570 ↗
Source-derived summary

<|°_°|> (also known as Robot Face or Robot) is the third studio album by the French electro swing group Caravan Palace, released on 16 October 2015.

Track listing

The single "Lone Digger" was certified Platinum by RIAA in May 2023. As of January 2024, the song's animated music video, which depicts a violent fight in a strip club staffed and patronized by various anthropomorphic animals, has over 400 million views on YouTube. The song was also featured in the 2022 Disney movie Strange World.

Charts

In 2016, it was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 20,000 copies in Europe.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Robot Face” is 2015 studio album by Caravan Palace. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Robot, Face and studio, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2023, 2024, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-10-16. For this dossier, Robot, Face and studio is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2015 studio album by Caravan Palace” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20648570. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2023, 2024 and 2022.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Robot Face”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Robot Face primary sources, Robot Face archive and Robot research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Robot Face”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Robot Face” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.