IAMX – Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)

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An album encore!?

Only one year after the really great 'Metanoia' album, Chris Corner ali­as IAMX comes sur­pris­ingly with the addendum 'Everything Is Burning' around the Corner (Understood the hint?). The 'Metanoia' was strong enough to take pos­i­tion #5 in the Electrozombies Top Ten Albums 2015. Will the 'Everything Is Burning' its pre­de­cessor in terms of qual­ity and ori­gin­al­ity meet? Or is it just a col­lec­tion of songs that were not strong enough for 'Metanoia'?

Let's take a closer look

Beside the music I want to start to con­grat­u­late IAMX for the con­sist­ent visu­al art­work. For that suc­cess­fully fin­ished task, the album gets already some extra points, but this won't affect the over­all star rat­ing :-P . I also love the idea of the anim­ated cov­er art­work. Which make me think, why doesn't exist a MP3 Player that shows anim­ated gifs as cov­er art­work. iTunes team – You know what you have to do now!

Let's listen to the tracks

The first track 'Everything is Buring' is an awe­some and typ­ic­al crazy 'IAMX' song. The album starts prom­ising with this title giv­en track that is full loaded of inspir­ing elec­tric sounds. The second song 'Dead In This House' is almost at the same level. It's comes with an inter­est­ing down-tempo disco beat. This sounds some­how weird and it is hard to describe, but I love this unique beat. The last track on the first CD that I want to men­tion pos­it­ive is 'Eternity'. The oth­er 4 songs are just medi­cre or almost unfin­ished b‑sides in my opinion.

Reprogram, Repeat, Reprogram, Repeat, …

Luckily includes 'Everything Is Burning' a second CD. This disc con­tains truly some mag­ni­fi­cent remixes that sig­ni­fic­antly enhances the over­all work. Among the great remix­er are well-known artists like 'Aesthetic Perfection' that gives a dance­able beat on 'Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me'. Also worth men­tion­ing the gloomy and more dynam­ic remix ver­sion of 'Happiness' by none oth­er than the Synth Pop Icon 'Gary Numan'. Furthermore I would like to indic­ate the remix ver­sion of 'Mr. Kitty' that gives 'North Star' a cer­tain amount of a disco touch.

Honestly I have to say that I wouldn't pub­lish this review if their wasn't the second CD with the breath­tak­ing remix ver­sions. Overall I would recom­mend to buy 'Everything Is Burning'. It com­pletes the 'Metanoia' in a beau­ti­ful way like the miss­ing link in the X‑Files. (I'm sorry for my bad references.)

Track By Track Rating

IAMX Everything Is Burning
IAMX – Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)
Everything Is Burning
Dead In This House
Triggers
Scars
The Void
Eternity
Turning Crimson
North Star (Future Funk Squad Remix)
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me(Aesthetic Perfection Remix)
North Star (Mr Kitty Remix)
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me (SlikNik_CE Remix)
Happiness (Gary Numan Remix)
Look Outside (Marat Sad Remix)
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me (Single Mix)
North Star (Addendum Remix)
Happiness (Single Mix)
Recommend
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me (Single Mix)
Happiness (Single Mix)
Weak
Scars
The Void
Turning Crimson
3.6
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Everything Is Burning
Dead In This House
Triggers
Scars
The Void
Eternity
Turning Crimson
North Star (Future Funk Squad Remix)
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me(Aesthetic Perfection Remix)
North Star (Mr Kitty Remix)
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me (SlikNik_CE Remix)
Happiness (Gary Numan Remix)
Look Outside (Marat Sad Remix)
Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me (Single Mix)
North Star (Addendum Remix)
Happiness (Single Mix)
Final Score