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Feb 22, 2019A carefully integrated mood piece, and the mood is bleak.
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Feb 19, 2019For all the promise here, the definitive Ladytron album remains the 2011 compilation Best of 00-10.
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Feb 15, 2019All in all, an accomplished return, and a welcome and relatable one for these dismal times.
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Feb 15, 2019A welcome return, Ladytron is a remarkably consistent and engaging album that befits the band's status as synth pop veterans.
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Feb 15, 2019Every Ladytron album has a few extremely low points, and on Ladytron those are “Run” (a part two to “The Animals,” not a particularly necessary one) and “Paper Highways” (the first part is great, as if wrought from iron wreckage, but it veers into a saccharine, completely misplaced chorus, like they handed it to Disney for a second). Much better as a ray of solace is the quietly experimental “Tomorrow Is Another Day.”
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Feb 15, 2019Their eponymous return is an immersive, invigorating and convincingly brooding stomp of disenfranchisement.
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Feb 14, 2019Long term fans won’t learn anything new here, but a good Ladytron album is better than no Ladytron album, and seeing how they didn't even seem to exist a few years ago, this is something to be thankful for.
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Feb 14, 2019The songs are densely packed with buzzy synth frameworks that act as a base to launch swirling atmospherical textures that form like storm clouds around the cool bass grooves lurking underneath. Where the mechanical beats lack melody, the impassive vocals provide it, making good on the band's name.
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Feb 13, 2019This is a record that feels handcrafted for the fans that waited so long for new material. Had you already previously invested in their icy yet sleek sound, then Ladytron is a welcome, if not wholly groundbreaking, return.
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UncutFeb 12, 2019While the singles "Until The Fire" and "The Animals" are satisfyingly sleek and sinister, Lady tron seem most energised when they head deep into the darkness in the starkly Numan-ist "Paper Highways" and "Deadzone." [Mar 2019, p.29]
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Feb 12, 2019At 13 songs it's an eventful ride and one that takes repeated listens to really click but once it does, Ladytron makes all the right noises in all the right places.
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MojoFeb 12, 2019Their sixth album shows them shaping the grim thoughts of The Animals and The Island into poised, potent songs. [Mar 2019, p.96]
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Q MagazineFeb 12, 2019Their finest record since 2002's Light & Magic, Ladytron achieve near perfection here. [Apr 2019, p.114]
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Feb 24, 2019synthpop/electronic perfection, ladytron is magnificent and incredible, truly and unique titans of electronic music.