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With vibrating synth pop coupled with intriguing club tunes, the four members of Ladytron create music that is both intoxicatingly catchy and eclectic. Over the course of their extensive global touring, Ladytron’s music has developed into a more sophisticated sound through the vocals of Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. The other half of Ladytron, Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu, also employ their creative geniuses to ensure the group’s dynamic authority in the music world.
It wouldn’t be right to label Ladytron in a specific music category; the foursome from Liverpool have expanded the field of electronica to include more stylized, dubbed up synth beats and combined snazzy dance music with tender sentiment. It seems as though Ladytron took the old electro pop to the cleaners, rinsed it, and left it smelling like a completely new genre.
The group had three albums underneath of their belt before they started work on the band’s upcoming June 3rd release-Velocifero. The new record experiments with edgier rhythms rather than recycling the sentimental soft tone of the previous records. Ever since Witching Hour, debuted in 2006, the group has worked with producers such as Jim Abbiss (Placebo, Arctic Monkeys) to stretch away from pop music and into alternative rock. Although Mira’s voice is as haunting as ever, the pounding rhythms of Velocifero are no comparison to the delicate beats of the earlier records.
The invigorating opening of the album begins with “Black Cat”: a dark sounding song in Bulgarian intertwined in an array of energetic cadence. As if building and influencing off of each other, the next song “Ghosts” leaves no room for exhaustion and serves as a bold stepping stone into the tango between rock and electronica. With repeating lyrics “There’s a ghost in me/ who wants to say ‘I’m sorry’/ Doesn’t mean I’m sorry”, it is an incredible grabby song which results in a carnival of technical sound.
The most interesting aspect of Ladytron is their ability to break away from their expectations and try something completely different; “Predict the Day” captures the spirit of hip-hop by letting the electric sound make grittier percussion breaks.
Ladytron has managed to keep their indie status while expanding their audiences around the world; this album would be the very first to be produced under their new label Nettwerk. This year, Ladytron will perform at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee as well as popping a short stop into our fair city at the Gothic Theatre on June 3rd.
It wouldn’t be right to label Ladytron in a specific music category; the foursome from Liverpool have expanded the field of electronica to include more stylized, dubbed up synth beats and combined snazzy dance music with tender sentiment. It seems as though Ladytron took the old electro pop to the cleaners, rinsed it, and left it smelling like a completely new genre.
The group had three albums underneath of their belt before they started work on the band’s upcoming June 3rd release-Velocifero. The new record experiments with edgier rhythms rather than recycling the sentimental soft tone of the previous records. Ever since Witching Hour, debuted in 2006, the group has worked with producers such as Jim Abbiss (Placebo, Arctic Monkeys) to stretch away from pop music and into alternative rock. Although Mira’s voice is as haunting as ever, the pounding rhythms of Velocifero are no comparison to the delicate beats of the earlier records.
The invigorating opening of the album begins with “Black Cat”: a dark sounding song in Bulgarian intertwined in an array of energetic cadence. As if building and influencing off of each other, the next song “Ghosts” leaves no room for exhaustion and serves as a bold stepping stone into the tango between rock and electronica. With repeating lyrics “There’s a ghost in me/ who wants to say ‘I’m sorry’/ Doesn’t mean I’m sorry”, it is an incredible grabby song which results in a carnival of technical sound.
The most interesting aspect of Ladytron is their ability to break away from their expectations and try something completely different; “Predict the Day” captures the spirit of hip-hop by letting the electric sound make grittier percussion breaks.
Ladytron has managed to keep their indie status while expanding their audiences around the world; this album would be the very first to be produced under their new label Nettwerk. This year, Ladytron will perform at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee as well as popping a short stop into our fair city at the Gothic Theatre on June 3rd.