Ladytron – ‘Gravity The Seducer’
With the release of their ‘Best Of 00-10’ earlier this year, Ladytron gave themselves an opportunity to begin a new chapter in their career. So when main knob-twiddler Daniel Hunt referred to their fifth album as “ baroque’n’roll ”,...
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If Gary Glitter turned into a robot Doctor Who baddie hell-bent on vengeance, ‘Ghosts’ would be his theme tune. But Ladytron got there first, so it’s OK to like it. Shot through with typically blank-eyed surliness, ‘Ghosts’ couldn’t be...
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We’ve all been there. You know, the kind of day where you wake up and nothing goes right: the shower breaks, you drop the kettle on the cat and then the car won’t start. Some people would just go back to bed and put their head under the...
Ladytron : Sugar
Perseverance has never been considered an attribute in the fickle world of indie rock. In the hushed cubicles of cool those years at the coalface spent by King Kapranos and T’Chiefs are seen not as a badge of authenticity, but as something to...
Ladytron : Blue Jeans
There are many reasons to dislike Ladytron . They have an irritating love of style over substance and a contrived, pain-in-the-ass aloofness. In fact, just for birthing electroclash before it even had a name, they should be roundly horsewhipped....
Ladytron : London WC1 Heaven
As the evening progresses, it becomes equally difficult to pick between euphemisms for "brilliant". A riot of fishnet, satin and patent, Heaven is crowded with extremely stylish people. Nobody, however, is more stylish than the four figures on...
Ladytron : Seventeen
Ladytron could well be the 21st Century New Order . A take on melancholic dance music from a rock perspective, they bring gravitas to ephemeral electro, a face to ‘faceless dance music’ and incredible somgwriting that ensures their records...
Ladytron : London King's Cross Scala
In Spain, Ladytron's immaculate electro-pop regularly causes quite a commotion. Now, as the 80s disco bandwagon slips into a higher gear, similar scenes of adulation are to be seen here. This, their largest London headline show, is sold out. Fans...
Ladytron : 604
Don't like to brag, but NME invented Ladytron in 1995 for a laugh. Not Ladytron the stupendous deadpan krautpop revivalists from Bulgaria via Liverpool, but Ladytron: The Concept. Back then they were called I Dream Of Wires and we made them up,...
Ladytron: London Astoria
Nothing much happens at a Ladytron gig. This two boy, two girl quartet from Liverpool via Bulgaria stand stock-still behind their synthesisers, like ABBA in black polo necks after draining the medicine cabinet. This freeze-frame vision is the...
