Album Review

IAMX – The Alternative

• 30th Mar 2008

Of the CDs I was sent to review this was the one that I was most looking forward to receiving.
I’d heard really good things about IAMX, but this track just sounds like a supped up Starsailor, which is obviously a concept that was never going to work by any stretch of the imagination.

The opening is a repeatative synth backing with IAMX man Chris Corner winging over the top. After a very long minute the track kicks in properly.
Corner is obviously under the impression that he has made a hot new sound, when really all he has done steal ideas from bands such as Depeche Mode and Soft Cell who were producing much better music 20 years ago.

IAMX obviously have a cult following thanks to the mighty Mighty Boosh, but if you want to check out a band related to the Boosh boys, I’d recommend Corner and Noel Fielding girlfriend’s band Robots in Disguise who, unlike IAMX, stick to making unpretentious, good electro music that is about having a good time.

If you want to sit through 50 minutes of IAMX, his album is out now.