Chris Corner

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Chris Corner
Corner in October 2009
Background information
Birth name	Christopher Anthony Corner
Also known as	IAMX
Born	(1974-01-23) 23 January 1974 (age 50) Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England
Genres	Electronic trip hop alternative rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, producer, remixer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano, drums, bass, harpsichord, mandolin, theremin, vibraphone
Member of	Sneaker Pimps IAMX
Website	iamxmusic.com

Christopher Anthony Corner (born 23 January 1974) is an English record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, singer and video artist. He was a founding member of the band Sneaker Pimps alongside Liam Howe, and is now active with his solo project IAMX.^[1]

To date, Chris Corner has released thirteen studio albums, four with Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X (1996), Splinter (1999), Bloodsport (2002) and Squaring the Circle (2021) and eleven as IAMX – Kiss and Swallow (2004), The Alternative (2006), Kingdom of Welcome Addiction (2009), Volatile Times (2011), The Unified Field, (2013) Metanoia (2015), Everything Is Burning (2016), Alive in New Light (2018), Fault Lines¹ (2023), and Fault Lines² (2024) and an acoustic rework album – Echo Echo (2020), as well as two experimental albums – Unfall (2017) and Machinate (2021) and two live albums – Live in Warsaw (2008) and Mile Deep Hollow Tour (2022). All albums under the IAMX moniker have been released independently and were written and produced solely by Corner with the exception of the fifth studio album The Unified Field, which was co-produced by Jim Abbiss, the experimental album Unfall which also features co-production and co-writing by Abbiss, and the acoustic album Echo Echo, which was co-produced by David Bottrill.^[2] Two more studio albums have been announced for release in the spring and fall of 2023.^[3]

Corner also composed and produced the soundtrack for the film Les Chevaliers du Ciel (2005), which included features from Sue Denim of Robots in Disguise and the band Placebo.

He has also directed, filmed, and edited music videos both for his own projects, IAMX^[4] and Sneaker Pimps,^[5] and for other musicians such as Gary Numan.^[6]