IAMX – The Alternative (No Carbon Records).
IAMX is the solo project of Sneaker Pimps front man Chris Corner and The Alternative is his second album. President highlights his excellent voice immediately. This is a big production song and could quite easily be from a stage musical. The eponymous title track is top class electronic pop that deserves chart success for him. Nightlife is darker and has a pounding bass line and that extra little bit of class. Lulled By Numbers shows how expressive a singer he can be and when backed by such evocative music it makes a winning combination – electronica of the highest class. His future may lie in musicals as I have stated above but that future may also lie in films if Songs Of Imaginary Beings is anything to go by. This is breathtaking and deserves to be heard by a wider audience. There is some interesting imagery used on The Negative Sex and he finally rocks it up when he reaches the chorus. Bring Me Back A Dog is all about wanting to be a dog in the next life – each to his own, I suppose. Anyway, the song is stuttering and magnificent! S.H.E. has a soaring vocal and the best you can do is think about him as a thinking man’s Mika. Spit It Out has a throbbing rhythm and the voice of an angel (fallen perhaps) which makes it an epic standout. His expressive skills shine out again on After Every Party I Die and his soaring vocal returns to pierce your soul on the epic This Will Make You Love Again. He finishes with a string version of Spit It Out. It is such an evocative piece of music that transfers so well onto strings and it shouldn’t really be too much of a surprise.
Given the right exposure IAMX might well be the big thing of 2008.
http://www.iamx.co.uk/
http://www.61seconds.de/
David Blue.
IAMX is the solo project of Sneaker Pimps front man Chris Corner and The Alternative is his second album. President highlights his excellent voice immediately. This is a big production song and could quite easily be from a stage musical. The eponymous title track is top class electronic pop that deserves chart success for him. Nightlife is darker and has a pounding bass line and that extra little bit of class. Lulled By Numbers shows how expressive a singer he can be and when backed by such evocative music it makes a winning combination – electronica of the highest class. His future may lie in musicals as I have stated above but that future may also lie in films if Songs Of Imaginary Beings is anything to go by. This is breathtaking and deserves to be heard by a wider audience. There is some interesting imagery used on The Negative Sex and he finally rocks it up when he reaches the chorus. Bring Me Back A Dog is all about wanting to be a dog in the next life – each to his own, I suppose. Anyway, the song is stuttering and magnificent! S.H.E. has a soaring vocal and the best you can do is think about him as a thinking man’s Mika. Spit It Out has a throbbing rhythm and the voice of an angel (fallen perhaps) which makes it an epic standout. His expressive skills shine out again on After Every Party I Die and his soaring vocal returns to pierce your soul on the epic This Will Make You Love Again. He finishes with a string version of Spit It Out. It is such an evocative piece of music that transfers so well onto strings and it shouldn’t really be too much of a surprise.
Given the right exposure IAMX might well be the big thing of 2008.
http://www.iamx.co.uk/
http://www.61seconds.de/
David Blue.
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