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One eight-year hiatus aside, Ladytron have been pretty reliable over the past 25 years for releasing collections of sleek-yet-gritty electronic music that’s elevated by their affection for old school analog tech and two elite frontwomen in Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. The band has been busy with a long-overdue reissue series (Light & Magic and […]
Ladytron don’t do throwaways, so their release of a their first official single as a trio with the departure of Reuben Wu when 2023’s Time’s Arrow was released, almost certainly implies more activity in the near future. The smouldering “I Believe In You” may have arrived last week without any sort of comment, but there’s […]
In honour of Ladytron’s piecemeal tour in support of last year’s Time’s Arrow finally making it to Toronto tonight, here’s a look at their breakout single from 2001 debut 604 – if by “breakout”, I mea the first sone of theirs I heard and not any kind of actual chart/commercial success. “Playgirl” appeared as the […]
I’m not sure how big the demographic is, but Curve fans with money burning a hole in their pocket are certainly being catered to in the next few weeks. Firstly, archival label Music On Vinyl, who have been targeting analog completists by releasing all of the band’s singles and EPs on wax over the past […]
Today is Ladytron day, with the band’s seventh album Time’s Arrow hitting stores and streaming, but amidst the rollout of the new record – including a second video for “Faces”, following “City Of Angels” in October, they found the time to add the clip for “International Dateline”, from 2005’s The Witching Hour, to their YouTube […]
Electronic pioneer Gary Numan has long-remained one of my musical blindspots, despite his massive influence on so much of what I listen to these days. A suggestion over the holidays from one of my jam buddies that we tackle this arrangement of the classic from Replicas has taken care of that, though, as this version […]
Ulrich Schnauss‘ take on the centrepiece of Slowdive’s Pygmalion was one of the standout tracks on the uniformly excellent Blue Skied an’ Clear, a 2002 tribute album assembled by German electronica label Morr Music. I’m of the belief that this comp in no small part helped elevate that record from its initial status as career-ending […]
So just as a heads up – over the holidays I went into a fairly deep synthesizer rabbit hole, both the music and the gear. So that’ll probably be informing a fair bit of what I’m posting for the next bit. Hope that’s okay, don’t really care if it’s not. We’ll start with a random […]
