Watch TV, I couldn’t even drive as it would invoke these waves of existential panic, depression, and exhaustion. I stopped making music and it was almost unbearable to listen to music. “I stopped listening to music for about a year. His ordeals – detailed in his personal blog – prompted him to move to LosĪngeles in sunny California for a change of scenery. The World Outside May Still Be Beautiful - But I Love This Cellįollowing a successful world tour in support of The Unified Field, Corner fell into a depressive and insomniac state. Eventually, however, dark energy claims its toll. As dark energy seductively does, it produced compelling work, including 2011’s Volatile Times and 2013’s The Unified Field albums, the latter of which is considered a milestone in IAMX’s creative development as a musician and performer. Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction and its anagram remix album Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK followed in 20, chronicling a dark phase in Corner’s life. IAMX released his sophomore album, The Alternative in 2006, followed in 2008 by Live In Warsaw.
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Headed, and from this awareness IAMX was born.Įven though some of the songs on IAMX’s 2004 debut Kiss + Swallow were originally slated to be on the Sneaker Pimps' fourth album, (and IAMX is itself a reference to Becoming X), shades ofĬhris’ old life quickly faded as his theatrical and gender-bending alias emerged with full force.įrom 2004 onward, IAMX maintained a hectic recording and touring schedule, moving to Berlin in 2005 at the peak of its electronic renaissance. Soon, Chris realised the band was no longer the right vehicle for where his music was
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Who continued with Sneaker Pimps through the band’s third album Bloodsport (Tommy Boy) and beyond. Splinter fostered a bourgeoning cult fandom,
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In 1998 the band’s changing creative direction lead to Corner taking over vocals from Kelli, and Splinter was released on Clean Up records in 1999. There’s Something That’s Stirring Deep In Me The newly formed band took rave culture and the pop charts by storm with their 1996 debut album, Becoming X which featured dancefloor classics “6 Underground” and “Spin Spin Sugar”, sold over a million copies, led to extensive touring, and attracted the attention of Virgin Records who signed them. In 1995, Corner and Howe formed Sneaker Pimps in Hartlepool, England with support from Kelli Dayton (vocals), Joe Wilson (bass) and Dave Westlake (drums). The pair also performed as DJs under the alias Line of Flight. Released two bedroom-produced EPs – Soul of Indiscretion, World as a Cone – that provided an early sonic template for trip-hop in general. The awkward kid who spent a lot of time in his room became the iconoclastic artist who recently spent weeks in a converted homestead in the mojave desert staring at mountains, mining the silence around him, fastidiously regenerating the muscle memory in his fingers, and practising, and honing his new album, Echo Echo.Ĭorner’s adolescent curiosity moved to a new level in his teens when he connected with his older sister’s boyfriend Liam Howe, who became a friend and collaborator. The interest lingers to this day, as IAMX not only writes and performs, but also produces his own music. Interest became obsession, and obsession a means through which Corner explored his growing fascination with technology. Growing up as a self-described socially anxious geek, Corner’s interest in music was stoked by a “weird uncle” who would play “strange music” to him. Performances, videos, and persona are larger than life, iconoclastic, and shockingly intimate. Fuelling electronic experimentation with punk energy and confessional lyricism, Corner’s dark alternative electronic sound, fashion,
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Androgynous and visceral, IAMX has metamorphosed from small-town blue-collar kid to international pop star in the late 1990’s to creator of raw art that disrupts gender and genre in the 2000’s. Ever since leaving wildly successful trip-hop group Sneaker Pimps, Corner’s process of becoming IAMX beginning in 2004 has been theatrical, transcendent, and communal.
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Transformation is at the core of Chris Corner’s music and outlook. Give Me The Stage, God Knows My Life Needs Staging