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The standouts are too numerous to mention, and all in all, Ladytron have set a new peak, getting to the heart of their best previous moments and expanding on them.
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86Ladytron have decisively transcended any particular froth of trend that may have sprouted up around them. [#17, p.98]
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83The Witching Hour is the most urgent and immediate of their career. The earlier records were sort of toylike and plastic; this not only has a pulse, it has chilled blood in its veins.
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Witching Hour could stand to be about two tracks shorter, but its quality comes as an unexpected, and highly welcome, surprise.
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Get past Ladytron's aloof exterior and you'll discover bristling guitars that anchor the most pneumatic of beats--and supremely catchy songs that pulse with life. [7 Oct 2005, p.76]
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Those who have loved Ladytron’s move toward a mix of harsher electro and lighter pop elements will find this a welcome progression, and seemingly a natural one, too.
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80Breathlessly exciting and enormously sexy, "The Witching Hour" is just the soundtrack for your next S&M session.
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80Where Ladytron's first two albums might have felt to some to be alienating and monochrome, like a shallow bender on champers and very nice drugs, but a shallow bender nonetheless; 'The Witching Hour' is blessed with a far greater palette of sound and sensation, and is as fine a spell as you'll succumb to all year.
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80Working with a major label has brought a new sheen to the Ladytronic wall of sound. [Oct 2005, p.94]
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Witching Hour is the album that Ladytron always seemed capable of, and its dark, dreamy-yet-catchy spell makes it the band's most sophisticated, and best, work to date.
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80This is their most humane work, with abrasive atmospherics akin to those of My Bloody Valentine.
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It’s rare for an album to transport you so fully onto its own terrain, and Witching Hour is a worthwhile retreat.
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80Here, finally, is a goth album for people who hate goth, an electronic album for people who hate electronica, and a pop album for everyone else.
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The Witching Hour doesn't vary much from the pattern established by its predecessors, but it's every bit as beguiling.
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80While Witching Hour has the band sounding more adventurous, there's a consistency to the tracks that holds it all together.
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A record that rather makes one want to have sex. [24 Sep 2005, p.47]
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70[Ladytron] have evolved into a dark behemoth, trading much of their Moogy plinky-plonk poise and gentle subversion for ominous rock thunder. [Sep 2005, p.96]
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Overall, Witching Hour abounds with sugary swirls of Cocteau Twins melancholia retooled for a post-electroclash world. [Dec 2005, p.218]
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An uneven album of some great songs interspersed with mediocre, uninspiring tracks. [#10, p.106]
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60A curious third outing. [Oct 2005, p.117]
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50Its successes just about match its failures. [#70, p.100]
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VictorD9Great songs I can't get out of my mind. A referent in electronica. Stays always in my MP3 player.
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