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Sep 12, 2011As always, Ladytron make the world feel a more haunted, evocative, romantic place. Faultless.
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Sep 9, 2011If Witching Hour was the finest apple the band ever produced, this is their finest orange. But as a whole, it probably is their best and most well-rounded record.
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Sep 9, 2011By stripping back the layers of overbearing electronic production of the past, they've recorded an album of lush and elegant pop music, beguiling and gloriously cinematic.
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Sep 14, 2011Please don't let any negative first impressions put you off though, as it just might be the album that Ladytron have been working towards for a decade.
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Sep 9, 2011Hard-driving Helen Marnie-sung tune Melting Ice, meanwhile, is surely Ladytron's steely attempt at self-aware irony.
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Sep 9, 2011Gravity the Seducer isn't the ultimate Ladytron album, a title which still belongs to Velocifero. It's too uncertain for that, with the slight wobbliness of someone injured learning to walk again.
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Nov 7, 2011Gravity The Seducer finds its place as Ladytron's most hypnotic record to date--one that has no resident bangers, yet doesn't seem to care.
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Sep 29, 2011Gravity The Seducer has its fair share of tremendous moments, but unfortunately those moments begin to lose their gloss when entangled with fragments of inconveniently placed filler.
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Sep 27, 2011There's a decade's worth of sophistication and maturity that has gone into building Ladytron's fortress of solitude, but maybe it's time to hear what it sounds like when it all melts down.
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Sep 14, 2011This may be Ladytron's most difficult album, but it's also one of their most cohesive.
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Sep 12, 2011It's masochistically delightful.
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Sep 13, 2011While Gravity is a bit cold to the touch, that wintry feel is also a big part of Ladytron's charm.
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Q MagazineSep 21, 2011Elsewhere they veer off into roboid electro, but a certain lack of variety costs points. [Oct 2011, p.124]
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MojoSep 19, 2011Gravity the Seducer aims to be the great leap forward but still falls a little short. [Oct 2011, p.98]
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Sep 13, 2011Gravity the Seducer is a transitional album bearing the growing pains and separation anxiety that we usually associate with bands that are in between periods of true inspiration.
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Sep 12, 2011Gravity the Seducer is by some measure more focused than Ladytron's previous efforts. Or a little more fatigued. It's sometimes a little hard to tell when the music is so resolutely detached and android-vague.
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Sep 9, 2011The problem with creating one of the last decade's great songs--2005's Destroy Everything You Touch--is that subsequent work will always be judged against that yardstick, so despite its undeniable worth, Gravity the Seducer leaves an "if only..." in its wake.
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Sep 9, 2011The resolutely midtempo album peaks with the ghostly "Ace of Hz" (recycled from a recent greatest-hits record), which polishes chillwave's hazy psychedelia into glossy yet dense ice sculptures.
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Sep 12, 2011For diehard fans Gravity The Seducer is replete with pleasing moments. For fans of novel musical statements, not so much. Listen, feel your mind wander, forget.
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UncutSep 9, 2011Rigidity is a hallmark of electropop, from Numan to Miss Kittin, but Ladytron's plodding rhythms and banal melodies straightjacket their songs. [Sep 2011, p.88]
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Dec 8, 2021THIS is perfection. Every song is beautiful.
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Jan 1, 2021Gravity The Seducer finds its place as Ladytron's most hypnotic record to date--one that has no resident bangers, yet doesn't seem to care.
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Jan 1, 2021Gravity The Seducer finds its place as Ladytron's most hypnotic record to date--one that has no resident bangers, yet doesn't seem to care.