Album Notes

IKON’s sixth studio album, Love, Hate and Sorrow, is the band’s most accomplished. While it retains IKON’s signature rock elements and the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the collection of twelve songs is as sonically diverse as the emotions represented in the album’s title. Love, Hate and Sorrow is the culmination of three years of writing and recording, and contains twelve of the strongest tracks from more than thirty that were created during the album sessions.

The response to Love, Hate and Sorrow’s first two singles foreshadows its likely appeal to fans of old- and new-school wave music. Black Magazine named the first single, ‘A Line on a Dark Day’, as the second-best song of 2008. Music journalist Mick Mercer called IKON “pioneers” and acclaimed ‘Amongst the Runes’ as a “pure dreamy wave cut”. The band will release its first music video clip for ‘A Line on a Dark Day’ in late-2009. The next single from the album—the band’s nineteenth single release— will be ‘Torn Apart’, a slower track which, in its simplicity and raw emotion, marks a departure from the powerful guitar-based club tracks for which IKON is renowned.

This is the first IKON recording to feature the line-up of Chris McCarter (vocals, guitar, programming), Dino Molinaro (bass) and Anthony Cornish (guitar). The band has played major alternative festivals including M’era Luna, Wave Gotik Treffen and Eurorock, and is about to embark on its seventh tour of Europe.

IKON has been called “the AC/DC of goth” for its long-term success creating and performing music that rocks internationally from all the way Down Under. With Love, Hate and Sorrow, IKON promises to deliver its best album yet.