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 Song of the year on this album! October 30, 2008
Robert Barrera (St. Petersburg, Florida United States)
If you ever thought hmm...female voices with Depeche Mode. Hooks, firmly in place, mikes and synths plugged with amps set at '11'. Place the needle at the beginning of "Burning Up". And there you go and you're welcome. Oh yeah, the rest of the album rocks, too.
 wow. October 30, 2008
recombinant
ummm... I thought it was going to be difficult to better than Witching Hour, but this album is HUGE sounding!!! I absolutely love it.
Something Old, Something New: The Beauty of Growth without Mainstreaming October 28, 2008
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
While searching the vast emptiness of e-space, I came across this lovely little thing called "A release from Ladytron I did not have" and smiled because I hadn't the foggiest that a new album was coming out. The press on the album was not heavy at all, the clubs were not thumping to these sounds in the same way that Lights and Magic and 604 had been embraced, and the buzz simply wasn't there. In a way that seemed a little bad, but in a way it made me happy because Ladytron has done some of their best work "off the grid." When they were referenced in movies, for instance, a lot of people simply called them "that club band." That was good, too, because they had a following that did not know who they were and, in electronica, it is better to exist without a face because this means that your music is talking.
And talk this album does.
I've heard many comparisons to some of Ladytron's other works and, to a point, I can see it. They haven't strayed away from the vocals that make them uniquely Ladytron, and they haven't tried to redo what made them who they are. They still have the beats that get stuck in your head, they still have catchy loops, and they still know how to please and audience. The one thing they have done is add a little more to some of their tracks, building on the older stuff but still leaving the older arrays in play. So, in a way, this is the progression one would expect in they have listened to Ladytron for a while now.
If you liked Ladytron before, this is a good continuation of what you've known and have loved. You'll get all the good stuff, will listen to it a lot, and will still have music from a band that lets their sounds speak for itself. If you do not like Ladytron it works much the same way: You might want to check the album out to see if you've perhaps missed out on something very soothing to the audio aspects of the self, but you shouldn't be disappointed if you still do not like them. And, if you are new, try out some older albums first, work your way here, and enjoy.
Personally I think Ladytron is one of those bands that has been overlooked because of their "club" label and that's sad because, in the end, people miss out. If there's one thing that people need in life, it is to not miss out on anything attuned to any form of audio-related bliss.
Lovely torture October 24, 2008
D. Studebaker (Dayton, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is Ladytrons best collection of tunes, period.
Once you hear many of these songs you will not be able to
extricate them from your joy center in your brain.
Lovely torture it is. You will love it; these bested any
effort of previous cds.
THE NEW WAVE SUCCESSORS October 12, 2008
TOSH
IN THIS FOURTH ALBUM THE GROUP CONFIRMS THE PROMISES OF THE PREVIOUS RECORDS. IT IS WORTH RECORDING, FOR THE 80'S NEW WAVE LOVERS, THE SINGLE "GHOSTS" AND THE ELECTRONIC "BLACK CAT". A NICE CONFIRMATION!
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