Sneaker Pimps are an English electronic/trip-hop group formed in Reading in the mid-1990s. Key releases discussed in the reviews are Becoming X (1996 era), Splinter (1999) and Bloodsport (2002). The band's lineup featured Kelli Dayton on Becoming X and Chris Corner as a principal songwriter and later frontman.

Kelli Dayton (credited in reviews) sang on Becoming X. Chris Corner is identified as the group's leader and later created the project IAMX. The reviews cite influences including Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order and Cocteau Twins.

DeBaser reviews praise Sneaker Pimps' blend of electronic textures and melancholic songwriting. Becoming X is noted for its icy elegance and Kelli Dayton's vocals; Splinter and Bloodsport are described as darker, more introspective works led by Chris Corner. Overall, reviewers value the band's synthesis of Trip Hop, New Wave and electronic pop.

For:Fans of 1990s trip hop, dark wave and electronic pop

 "My mother never told me that love is a bloodsport" (Chris Corner)

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 "Never was a title more appropriate for an album that, 11 years later, still sounds suspended between the undefined and the icy, yet terribly elegant, refined but never cloying."

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 Strange Group, the Sneaker Pimps, so introspective and so commercial... so light and so deep (and I'll spare you more Wenders-like quotes...), a band that has never managed to remain unscathed from the Trippy label that too many superficially pinned on them but perhaps brought some money too, allowing the leader, Chris Corner, a golden exile in Belgian Land to produce electro-eighties reminiscences (IAMX).

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