Ladytron's new "Ladytron" album is a big disappointment for me; let's just be upfront about this. It has none of the infectious melodies and hits of past albums. There are no hits here, nothing memorable. It's as big a disappointment as Metric's most recent "Pagans in Vegas" effort. I don't know what's happened to adult music in the past ten years but I have scarce new music of interest,Ladytron's new "Ladytron" album is a big disappointment for me; let's just be upfront about this. It has none of the infectious melodies and hits of past albums. There are no hits here, nothing memorable. It's as big a disappointment as Metric's most recent "Pagans in Vegas" effort. I don't know what's happened to adult music in the past ten years but I have scarce new music of interest, most is from 8 to 12 years ago. "Ladytron" exudes an overall attitude of militant messaging rather than being musically pleasing. Another big problem is that the album wasn't mixed well, their vocals are largely overrun by driving electronica and EDM. As such, I can't even use the album as background music for misc activities. For me, this is a wasted effort and a terribly wasted opportunity. I hate thinking I've got to wait another X years for Ladytron to issue another release, arghhh!
Track by track notes:
Until the Fire is 5 mins of whispery vocal repetitivity mostly drowned out by the accompaniment,
The Island's sound "borrows" heavily from one of St Etienne's songs, hmm,
Tower of Glass introduces bagpipes which is its only distinguishing element,
Far from Home meh,
Paper Highways was mostly monotone, trance EDM,
The Animals, more trance electronica,
Run is another song of repetitive EDM nonsense,
Deadzone, whatever vocal performance was attempting to come out was again drowned out by accompanying electronica,
Figurine starts off well but halfway through gets drowned out by electronica once again, ugh,
You've Changed, more of the same, vocals overrun by driving EDM,
Horrorscope comes off as political chant EDM,
The Mountain is not all that unpleasant actually, utilizing a more traditional beat vice EDM, but they continue the chant style which is not flattering,
Tomorrow is Another Day is the least aurically offensive track for me. It's almost listenable, but they persist yet in their chant/trance style which is just so terribly bland and does nothing to show the beautiful lyric range we all love them for.… Expand
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