(Photo by Gretchen Lanham) IAMX’s latest single “Fault Lines” is out today. The eponymous song is the title track of IAMX’s upcoming new full-length album “Fault Lines I”.

Chris Corner, IAMX, explains the track: “The song ‘Fault Lines’ explores the impact of societal fractures on the human psyche, on a personal and global level. It is an exploration of the consequences of fanaticism, manipulation, and self-destruction, and how we can find solace in the healing power of nature.”

The single releases alongside three upbeat remixes executed by IAMX, by A Calmer Collision (Ryan McCambridge) and by The Royal Ritual (David Lawrie).

The single is accompanied by a lyric video, shot and edited by Corner, reminding us of the balance of the artificial and natural and confronts us with how we have contorted ourselves to fit into the strange world we have created.

“Fault Lines1” live dates

NORTH AMERICA

• 27 May – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
• 28 May – Phoenix, AZ – Nile Theater
• 30 May – El Paso, TX – Rock House
• 1 June – Austin, TX – Elysium
• 2 June – San Antonio, TX – Sam’s
• 3 June – Houston, TX – Numbers
• 6 June – Tampa, FL -Orpheum
• 7 June – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
• 9 June – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
• 10 June – Philadelphia, PA – Warehouse on Watts
• 11 June – New York City, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
• 14 June – Rochester, NY – Photo City
• 15 June – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
• 16 June – Detroit, MI – The Magic Bag
• 18 June – Madison, WI – Crucible
• 19 June – Kansas City, KS – Record Bar
• 21 June – Denver, CO – The Oriental Theater
• 22 June – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
• 24 June – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
• 25 June – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
• 27 June – Sacramento, CA – Harlows
• 28 June – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
• 29 June – Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theater*
• 22 September – Chicago, IL – Cold Waves Festival^

All shows with I Speak Machine
*with cEvin Key
^Festival performance

​EUROPE

• 26 September – Bratislava, SK – Majestic Music Club
• 28 September – Prague, CZ – Lucerna
• 29 September – Budapest, HU – A38
• 30 September – Graz, A – PPC
• 01 October – Vienna, A – SIMM City
• 03 October – Sankt Gallen, CH – bruchteil grabenhalle
• 04 October – Munich, D – Ampere
• 06 October – Barcelona, E – Apollo 2
• 07 October – Madrid, E – Sala Mon
• 09 October – Brussels, B – Ancienne Belgique
• 10 October – Paris, F – Trabendo
• 11 October – Cologne, D – Live Music Hall
• 13 October – Leipzig, D – Täubchenthal
• 14 October – Hamburg, D – Markthalle
• 15 October – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
• 17 October – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli De Helling
• 18 October – Frankfurt, D – Zoom
• 21 October – Berlin, D – Columbia Theater
• 22 October – Warsaw, PL – Progresja
• 24 October – Wroclaw, PL – Zaklete Rewiry
• 25 October – Brno, CZ – Fleda
• 27 October – Stockholm, S – Slaktkyrkan
• 28 October – Gothenburg, S – Trädgår’n
• 30 October – London, UK – O2 Academy Islington

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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(Photo by Gretchen Lanham) IAMX’s new single “The X ID” is out now ahead of the new album “Fault Lines1”, due out May 12th. The song is the first new lyrical material from the project since 2018’s “Alive In New Light” and builds on the modular sounds of 2021’s “Machinate”.

The first of two albums across the next year, the “Fault Lines” project explores “the rifts and fractures of our lives, both psychologically and within the tangible world” so Chris Corner says. And he adds: “I am humbled that, here at IAMX HQ everyone is fully present, dedicated and invested in serving this art and authentically living an alternative life in mental and physical freedom. This video is a document of that freedom. The X ID is and has always been a major part of my personality. It is my brutal, provocative gender bending screaming inner demon, my magnetic swaggering hedonistic ego, the deepest darkest beautiful me which I am able to live out through this music. On stage, in videos, through my community. Over time I have learnt to embrace, inhabit and wield this X ID. Without hesitation or guilt. And I see it as my duty to encourage others to embody and express who they are.”
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The video for “The X ID” plays with themes of gender, S&M and unreality. In the video you can watch how Corner guides you through a sensory overload of nature.

Tour

IAMX will bring the full band production back to the stage for a North America tour beginning next month and a European tour in the fall.

Chris Corner and longtime live collaborators Janine Gezang (vocals, keys, bass) and Jon Siren (drums), will interpret classics and favorites from throughout the expansive IAMX catalog alongside the new material of “Fault Lines1”.

In North America, IAMX will be joined by the dark electronic project I Speak Machine who recently opened for Gary Numan, and will end the tour in Los Angeles with an explosive opening act from Skinny Puppy co-founder cEvin Key. See below for a full list of live dates.

NORTH AMERICA

• 27 May – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
• 28 May – Phoenix, AZ – Nile Theater
• 30 May – El Paso, TX – Rock House
• 1 June – Austin, TX – Elysium
• 2 June – San Antonio, TX – Sam’s
• 3 June – Houston, TX – Numbers
• 6 June – Tampa, FL -Orpheum
• 7 June – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
• 9 June – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
• 10 June – Philadelphia, PA – Warehouse on Watts
• 11 June – New York City, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
• 14 June – Rochester, NY – Photo City
• 15 June – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
• 16 June – Detroit, MI – The Magic Bag
• 18 June – Madison, WI – Crucible
• 19 June – Kansas City, KS – Record Bar
• 21 June – Denver, CO – The Oriental Theater
• 22 June – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
• 24 June – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
• 25 June – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
• 27 June – Sacramento, CA – Harlows
• 28 June – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
• 29 June – Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theater*

All shows with I Speak Machine
*with cEvin Key

​EUROPE Read the review of ‘Fault Lines1’.

• 26 September – Bratislava, SK – Majestic Music Club
• 28 September – Prague, CZ – Lucerna
• 29 September – Budapest, HU – A38
• 30 September – Graz, A – PPC
• 01 October – Vienna, A – SIMM City
• 03 October – Sankt Gallen, CH – bruchteil grabenhalle
• 04 October – Munich, D – Ampere
• 06 October – Barcelona, E – Apollo 2
• 07 October – Madrid, E – Sala Mon
• 09 October – Brussels, B – Ancienne Belgique
• 10 October – Paris, F – Trabendo
• 11 October – Cologne, D – Live Music Hall
• 13 October – Leipzig, D – Täubchenthal
• 14 October – Hamburg, D – Markthalle
• 15 October – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
• 17 October – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli De Helling
• 18 October – Frankfurt, D – Zoom
• 21 October – Berlin, D – Columbia Theater
• 22 October – Warsaw, PL – Progresja
• 24 October – Wroclaw, PL – Zaklete Rewiry
• 25 October – Brno, CZ – Fleda
• 27 October – Stockholm, S – Slaktkyrkan
• 28 October – Gothenburg, S – Trädgår’n
• 30 October – London, UK – O2 Academy Islington

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop, Experimental.

Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.

Background/Info: I Speak Machine is an American project featuring Tara Busch and filmmaker Maf Lewis. “War” is the band’s third full length album. It’s a self-released production they got the opportunity to present as the support act of the Gary Numan tour in Europe.

Content: I Speak Machine brings good-old 80s Electro-Wave elements back to life. They next boosted and reinforced this element with harsher, Industrial, sound treatments while Tara Busch sings in a deeply, sensual, but charismatic way. This album reminds me of an imaginary hybrid between Goldfrapp and Chicks On Speed.

+ + + : I like the rough, industrialized, Pop style of this band. There also is a perverted, but cool fusion between the hot vocals and heavy sound treatments. It sounds a bit minimal and experimental, but also danceable. The album reveals different cool songs, but I have a preference for the ‘harder’ cuts like “Ruined Me”, “The Metal Of My Hell”, “Left For Dead” and “War”.

– – – : The Softer Cuts Aren’t Exactly The Album’s Best- Nor Hottest Exposure.

Conclusion: I honestly never heard of this band before, but this album is a true revelation revealing a band with a personal Wave-Pop approach.

Best songs: “Ruined Me”, “The Metal Of My Hell”, “Left For Dead”, “War”, “Push The Grease”.

Rate: 8.

Artist: www.ispeakmachine.com / www.facebook.com/ispeakmachine

About I Speak Machine

I Speak Machine is an American duo formed by vocalist and synthesizer player Tara Busch and filmmaker Maf Lewis, based in Los Angeles, California. The pair build scores and short films together and give the audio and the visual equal weight.

Their first release was the score and short film “The Silence”, issued by Lex Records on 19 January 2015. “Zombies 1985” followed on Lex Records in 2017 and the self-released “War” in 2022. Earlier the duo shared the EP “Exponentialism” with Gazelle Twin on Metamatic in 2013.

Busch also sang on “Under My Skin”, the 2017 download single by John Fryer under his Black Needle Noise name. The duo presented “War” on the road as support act on Gary Numan’s European tour.

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John Fryer has started a brand new series of download single for an upcoming album. The first new track, “Under My Skin”, is a recording with Tara Busch (I Speak Machine) on vocals.

The track-by-track recording seems to work quite fine for Fryer: “For me its the best way to work with Black Needle Noise, as I am working with many different singers so people can concentrate song by song and singer by singer and not get overwhelmed with 10 songs and 10 different singers. I also put links on Bandcamp to the singers own music projects so its easy for people to go and check out their music to.”

You can download the song below on Bandcamp!

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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