Some musicians are intended to be heard but not seen - just an auditory experience and nothing more IAMX, on the other hand, is not just a band ... it is an event - a full-on aural and visual attack with the dynamic and inimitable musician and songwriter Chris Corner (of Sneaker Pimps) leading out
With the European market goes bonkers for his blend of dramatic synth-rock darkness-infused pop and ingeniously constructed indie dance IAMX originally from the UK but now based in Berlin has been headlining festivals in Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland, etc. and sharing the stage with Placebo Franz Ferdinand and The Cardigans among other things,
As an 80s electro glam soundtrack to a Jan Švankmajer film or an almost unfathomable hybrid between the sexy swagger of Prince and the kalla and predictive respectability Roxy Music IAMX mixes Chris' erotically charged vocals with music that is simultaneously desperate yet controlled
With such strikingly cinematic songs as waltzy drama "president" of throbbing sexual predators DIRT "The Negative Sex to indelibly infectious synthpop of the sweeping "Spit It Out" option is exactly just that - the alternative to cookie-cutter music scene that dominates the airwaves Considering the rabid reception he receives from his performances it seems it's time for the masses to latch on The Alternative
