LADYTRON ARE THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

Seventeen is still a great song.

when i heard the song that riffs on the "are you being served" theme, i knew these were my people

I don't even really consider ladytron electroclash -- the stuff pre-witching hour might as well not exist to me

Light & Magic isn't a bad album. Still sounds fresh today, with all the minimal wave, cold wave, druggy stuff going on lately. It's weird that after nearly 20 years, the 80s retro thing hasn't died out yet.

604!

I really Ladytron but out of their five albums, I only really rate two of them. Witching Hour is close to being a perfect record and 604 is very strong, apart from those they're frustratingly patchy on record.

Witching Hour is close to being a perfect record

put this album on 34 mins ago cos of this thread revival, not heard it in years - and even then i only listened to it a couple of times.
it's the only album of ladytrons i have.
will be playing it a lot more often from hereon.
hits a lot of my sweet spots

velocifero and gravity the seducer are also underrated

I agree, I listened to Gravity The Seducer the other night and think there's plenty of good stuff on it... 'Moon Palace' probably one of my favourite Ladytron tracks! I like the first two albums, but it's hard to argue with the idea that they came into their own and started realising their potential on Witching Hour

We are proud to announce our first new music since 2011. 
Find out all about it, and how you can be involved. 
This will be an exciting year. Love, Ladytron XXXXhttps://t.co/DM2GT0ZImQ

— Ladytron (@LadytronMusic) February 28, 2018

(jfc I forgot about the earlier thread)

Yes! About fucking time ... what did people think of the two Marnie solo records that came out during the hiatus?

I liked them, the first better than the second. that said, I can't listen to the record anymore -- I got a lot of angry email about what I thought was a positive review, and every time one of the songs comes up on shuffle I'm reminded of it and have to turn it off

Nice to have them back although, come on, this sounds exactly like Broadcast!

Cool, I've missed them. And I didn't know about the solo albums so now I've got something to listen to while I wait for the new record to come out.

First track!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWJ8vkE9w8

sounds kinda velocifero-y to me.

Prefer the album teaser to the actual single, but am pretty stoked nonetheless

ok thank god the album teaser had me worried, if I want to listen to Broadcast then I listen to Broadcast or any of the 100 bands that sound like them already

update: this is growing on me even more, it's easily the best thing anyone from ladytron has done in years

New single!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbf4chx1mS0

I still need to listen with proper speakers but so far it sounds great! It reminds me of Propaganda.

Agreed, this sounds really good.

Yes! I've been looking forward to this. Marnie's solo albums have both been very good, mind.

Slight adoption of the retro outrun synthwave vibe in there somewhere? Quite like this

yeah this is great

the new album is out, and it's...a trip.

the highs are high, the lows are low (sometimes very low), and the overall production is...uhh...weird.

but I'm kinda digging it. 'Deadzone,' 'You've Changed,' and 'Paper Highways' are pretty fun.

The leaked tracks really didn’t impress. Still, I pledged to get the physical edition so looking forward to it. Love the cover art

ok I've warmed up to this a lot, and I now think it's actually pretty fantastic. Like 'Witching Hour,' this feels like a quintessentially 'winter' album, and I'm here for it.

Listen here if you're trying to avoid all the PledgeMusic drama: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/691388562/first-listen-ladytron-ladytron

unsurprisingly, I love it, it's like velocifero but even angrier

the album art is also amazing

this is sounding really good

I keep thinking "oh this must be the big triumphant fuck-off closer" and then seeing there are more songs to go

end to end bangers

good record

It's a grower. Some good hooks but is it me or is this record brick-walled to death? Pretty disappointing since the music often blurs into a flat mush.
Song wise it feels like a slight throwback to the pre-Witching Hour period. This could have come out after Light & Magic

Some good hooks but is it me or is this record brick-walled to death

this.
I have tried several times to give this a whole listen through, but its just way too painful.
hopefully its just the digital promo, and things are better on release, as this album sounds really bad.
shame, there are some cracking songs hidden in there.

I know "it's thematically appropriate" is a cop-out but in this case it is kind of thematically appropriate

fwiw the best track here is "deadzone," up there with "silent shout" in terms of songs that embody/address trauma

a solid 7.7 from p4k!

Omg this is wonderful! End to end bangers is right.

Late listening to the new one but why are they so good???? My god, we don't deserve Ladytron!

OK maybe not "Paper Highways."

New single ‘City of Angels’:https://t.co/aUMF9hMDWX

New album ‘Time’s Arrow’:https://t.co/pQLzXmu2Lv pic.twitter.com/qOgvuEmQCe

— Ladytron (@LadytronMusic) October 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewreSl-BZVw

Reuben left the band.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxhADZOFoF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Saw them live the other day and they were excellent. Sound was really beefed up, might have been the venue maybe, but they were really powerful.