Volatile Times

Volatile Times is the fourth studio album from IAMX. It was released on March 18, 2011 and the tracks on the album keep alive the cabaret-esque and dark electronic sound that Chris Corner has become known for. The track "Volatile Times" was featured on season 1 episode 5 of How to Get Away with Murder, both the US and instrumental versions of "I Salute You Christopher" on episode 11, as well as the US version of "Music People" on episode 14.

Release and promotion

Volatile Times is the first IAMX album released on vinyl.

New songs from the album that were performed on October 22, 2010 at the Prague show at Meet Factory included "Fire and Whispers", "Bernadette", "Oh Beautiful Town", "Music People", and "Cold Red Light".

The lead single from the album, "Ghosts of Utopia", premiered on Czech Radio 1 on January 23. It was released as a digital download on February 25 and includes a remix by Noblesse Oblige, who were the supporting band for the Fire & Whispers Tour. A music video for the single, directed and edited by Chris Corner, premiered on tape.tv on February 23.

Volatile Times (song)

"Volatile Times" is a song by IAMX, which was released as the third single from the studio album Volatile Times. A remix EP was released as a digital download as well as a CD, with only 500 copies available for distribution and all pre-orders were signed by Chris himself.

Music video

A music video for the single, shot and directed by Michel Briegel, was released on September 16, 2011. It uses the IAMseX UNFALL rework, composed by Corner.

Chris stated, "I don't know what this video is yet. It was the first video from this album that I was not in control of. I wanted to just walk into the shoot like a careless rockstar and feel the music. We shot over two days and the chaos increased over that time. By the end Janine Gezang [live keyboards/bass, vocals] was the demonic blood soaked sex nun floating in a swimming pool and I was the drunken, crying Hersheys chocolate syrup monster in the white room of an asylum. You get the picture."

Track listing

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IAMX

IAMX is the solo musical project of Chris Corner, formerly of the band Sneaker Pimps. Founded in 2004 in London, it is an independent music project which also focuses on and experiments with visual art. Musically, IAMX spans multiple genres from electronic rock and dance music to burlesque influenced songs and emotional ballads. Corner's striking and wide ranging voice, and his way of programming sounds and beats is an obvious characteristic of the IAMX sound.

From 2006 until 2014, IAMX had been based in Berlin, Germany where Corner has found "the spirit to care less about the music industry and take an independent route." Berlin is also mentioned in the lyrics which concern subjects such as sexual identity, death, love, narcotic intoxication, decadence, critique of religion and politics, alienation, addiction, modern society and gender bending. The topic of gender bending is further emphasised by Corner's own distinctive and androgynous image.

As of 2014 to 2015, IAMX have relocated to Los Angeles from Berlin, citing the much needed change to a better climate and a break with old ties in Berlin.