IAMX

Chris Corner, a founding member of Sneaker Pimps, introduced the dark electro-pop guise IAMX in 2004. The project title referenced the Sneaker Pimps album Becoming X, reflecting Corner's view of himself as an embodiment of "X," an ever-changing variable. Drawing on synth pop and new wave precedents set by New Order, the Cure, and Depeche Mode while emphasizing theatrical presentation, his IAMX material diverged sharply from his prior Sneaker Pimps work. After the dense synth-rock of the 2004 debut Kiss + Swallow, later sets such as 2009's Kingdom of Welcome Addiction folded in dark cabaret accents; the heavy electro-industrial Metanoia of 2015 preceded more experimental statements including Unfall in 2017 and Machinate in 2021.

Recall released Corner's first IAMX album, Kiss + Swallow, in 2004; numerous tracks had been prepared for a fourth Sneaker Pimps record that ultimately remained unfinished. The Alternative appeared as his second studio album in 2008, joined that year by the tour document Live in Warsaw. Kingdom of Welcome Addiction followed in 2009, carrying a darker and more aggressive tone along with a guest contribution from Imogen Heap, while the remix collection Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK surfaced the same year. After the icy, dance-oriented Volatile Times in 2011, IAMX rejoined Jim Abbiss—the producer of Becoming X—for The Unified Field, issued in March 2013. Corner's compositions later supplied recurring mood and texture for the award-winning series How to Get Away with Murder across its first four seasons.

Late in 2015 he delivered the dramatic Metanoia, a sinister and dub-inflected revision of his established approach. As on earlier releases, the record addressed themes of sexual fluidity, androgyny, emotional darkness, and decadence through a shadowy, vampirish lens. Two years afterward came the largely instrumental techno album Unfall. In 2018 Corner enlisted Kat von D for harmonic vocals on his eighth album, Alive in New Light. The acoustic Echo Echo arrived in 2020, followed by the experimental Machinate in 2021, and the live recording Mile Deep Hollow Tour 2019 emerged in 2022.