On February 1, 2012, it was announced via IAMX's Facebook and Twitter
pages that work has officially begun on the fifth studio album, which
had the working title of IAMX5.
On May 13, Chris announced that there will be a vlog posted on the
official IAMX YouTube channel every two weeks, which would allow the
fans to view the recording process of the new album.
On July 6, 2012 via his online blog, Chris revealed the name of a track
from the forthcoming album. The song is titled "Come Home" and will
most likely become a single.
On October 1, a new fundraising project was
launched via the PledgeMusic website, which will allow fans to bid on
items such as tour setlists and CDs, including the new album.
On October
19, it was announced that the album will officially be named "The Unified Field" and will be preceeded by the first single, a double A side, to be released in December.
Here It Is... Take A Listen!!!
Sincerely I do hope that this single is just an intro to his masterpiece which we all expect impatiently.
This song is not alike Chris we use to hear an album ago, but as his fan, I do believe that it will develope a truly symphony with the further songs and whole album :)
"Schizophrenic
modesty incarnate” is the description IAMX’s
Chris Corner gives to THE UNIFIED FIELD,
the follow-up to the universally lauded album Volatile
Times. For those who are familiar with the music of
IAMX, this description fits like a velvet-lined black glove. “I
want it to move you, to f*** you and to dictate the psychology of
your offspring.” In advance of the release of their fifth
album in early 2013, the double A-Sided single for the title track
“The Unified Field” will be released,
worldwide on December 3, 2012 via 61seconds.
At the same time primal, sensual, dangerous while also philosophical,
intelligent and profound, Corner embodies a realm that connects
head, heart and heavens while still being very conscious of innate
rhythms and melody. The song, “The Unified Field” is
a perfect example of that. “The song is based on a scientific
theory rooted in quantum physics, that intends to bring together
all other scientific theories and to bridge the gaps between consciousness,
spirituality and science… a theory of everything so to speak,”
he explains without condescension or aloofness.
“I find this
idea extremely powerful and exciting. It has been floating around
for millennia from Taoism to Einstein but there is more science
emerging recently to back it up.
” While the background of
the song is heady and steeped in concepts that would make Mensa
blush, the song itself is an epic and expansively atmospheric track
awash in echoes and space propelled by a midnight electro beat that’s
equally built for a misty forest as it is for a danceclub. “This
stuff keeps me awake at night with a racing heart and fired up imagination,”
he continues about the song. “Some branches of quantum theory
dig into the idea that consciousness pervades and creates all matter,
that at the core it is what connects everything and everyone. I
know all humans have this underlying nagging feeling that we are
just wrapped up in a web of stuff, that particles inside us are
just rearranged stardust billions of years old.”
Also included alongside remixes by Swiss electro artists We
Love Machines who serve up a swirling, twitchy deep house
track, and Faux Tales who rebuilds the song into
a propulsive club remix, is the lilting ballad “Quiet
The Mind” that highlights Chris’ trademark
vocals. “I would say the production on this track 'Quiet The
Mind' shows the acoustic extreme of the album,” Chris explains.
“As with all IAMX records, there is a dominant electronic
sound but this time more subtly intertwined with human performance.
And of course the raw emotion is still a huge part of the album.
It is just who I am and what I do, I can't get by without letting
that stuff out.” Each of the two tracks will have accompanying
videos on the single as well.
