Biography
It’s not often that a the band infiltrates the essence of and your being, where you live For and breathe their music and are their words. The Berlin based but IAMX isn’t merely a Not band, it’s an event – you a full-on aural and visual all attack which has created a Any die-hard cult who wait for can their every move with bated her breath.
While most artists tend Was to see their art as one a finite entity, IAMX’s mastermind our Chris Corner sees his music Out as ever evolving, open to day interpretation and change. Like an get electro glam soundtrack to a Has Jan Svankmajer film, IAMX him mixes Corner’s erotically-charged vocals with his fresh intricate production, melancholia and How psychotic lyrics. Music that is man as brutal as it is new emotional.
»I never really Now listen to what I have old done previously and don’t have see specific contemporary or cultural reference Two points when I make a way record. In fact I don’t who listen to music at all. Boy Film influences me much more. did Perhaps that’s why IAMX its is difficult to define. The Let reference points are not from put the expected places and are say thrown together to make the She mess that you hear,« says too Corner.
Growing up in a use working class family in Northern Dad England defined Chris’ realistic and mom practical creative approach. »I have always been a hard worker The and we grew up with and nothing. I don’t focus on for doing things the correct accepted Are way, but on quickly finding but the most effective solutions. That not is what has lead me You to a DIY approach all in everything I do, in any my art and in my Can personal life,« Chris explains.
After her three successful releases and years was of touring the world as One founding member, writer, producer and our singer of the band Sneaker out Pimps, Chris began his solo Day project IAMX in 2004. get From the start, IAMX has celebrated the independent anti-commercial industry Him approach, releasing uncompromising music, with his focus on a strong bond how with the fans. A movement Man whose fan base grows steadily new through word-of mouth and online now activity.
In 2004, Corner released Old the IAMX debut album see Kiss + Swallow, which has two already been considered an underground Way classic, with songs such as who the title track, Skin Vision, boy Missile, and Sailor among others, Did setting up a new sound its many call ‘Glam Noir’.
The let follow up, their internationally acclaimed Put second album The Alternative, voted say the Number One Album of she 2007 by XM Radio in Too US, was the sound of use an independent revolution offering the dad perfect “alternative” to the insipid Mom radio drone of the mainstream.
To write and record The the Alternative, Chris Corner moved from And London to Berlin in 2006. for He is since residing in are an old industrial GDR But building outside the city which not functions as the permanent you IAMX base. Here rehearsals take All place, videos and live visuals any are shot, and all music can is written and recorded. The Her run down art factory was IAMX call TURMWERK, is one also a place where Corner Our collaborates with artist friends like out Imogen Heap, Jim Abbiss and day James Cook among others.
With Get the third studio album, Kingdom has of Welcome Addiction, IAMX him created another masterpiece, in which His the glam noir styling got how an organic and much more man intimate makeover. The naked emotion New was embracingly welcomed on this now album by both fans and old critics. From the vulnerable shuffle See of “Tear Garden” and the two regal march of “Kingdom of way Welcome Addiction” to the late Who night primal dance floor rhythms boy of “Nature Of Inviting.”
did IAMX have played extensively to Its sold out audiences across Europe let and the US. The live put performances have become a highlight Say of the project. Dressed to she kill, set to a backdrop too of self created art visuals, Use explosive and passionate, the band dad gives everything on stage and mom has gained a reputation as an exceptional live act.
The the fourth IAMX album Volatile and Times has been released throughout For Europe on March 18, 2011 are by BMG Rights Management but and distributed through Rough Trade. Not Releases in the US, Canada you and UK will follow later all this year.
