Disco de Ladytron: “604”

ladytron is the most exciting band i've heard in a very long time. they make me feel all dizzy and excited and out of breath, sort of like the the first time i heard stereolab. cool, smart bands are so rare in this era of bad, trickle down, ghetto-wannabe pop. ladytron have renewed my faith in youth/pop/whatever culture. i've told everyone i know to listen to them right this minute, but no one's paying attention which, i suppose, is fitting since no one listened to their references either. buy '604,' dance naked on your roof, and taste the magic.

(only disappointment is this disc's exclusion of their cover of human league's 'open your heart.' it's a brill reinterpretation.)

heard since Pulp's "Different Class." In Ladytron, I have found what for me is the epitome of electonic "pop" music. I first heard Ladytron's single "Playgirl" and was hooked from the first beat. I was afraid that the CD would be average with Playgirl being the only standout "single." I was very excited to hear that almost all of these songs, including the instrumental Mu-Tron, could stand as singles on their own merit. It's true that some of this sounds like earlier synth-pop recordings, but Ladytron takes things in a more fully developed direction beyond mere pop. Every single song sounds well thought out and there is no filler song here. Unlike an earlier commenter here wrote, I believe "Commodore Rock" echoes early Heaven 17. "He took her to a Movie" like Visage and "Discotraxx" like Saint Etienne.

It's been in my car's CD player since I got it. While many other CDs have come and gone this one will probably occupy slot #6 until the next Ladytron recording comes out, which I hope is very soon.

If the beats' look of the 1950s were placed in the year 2050, this would be Ladytron's look. If the sound were made to emulate innocent truisms and hardcore, well, just general hardcore-ness, this would be Ladytron's sound. I love this band. I love the two lovely ladies of the group, and I never get tired of their sound. It's a mish-mash of Gang of Four bounciness, mixed with unabashed keyboard Korg sound, mixed with the android-angelic vocals of a 1960's style vixen. Love this. You can't not love this.

This is one of those albums you are so happy to stumble across! It certainly fell in to my lap and nothing this refreshing has come by me in a long time. I get so tired of hearing all the comparisons to Kraftwerk but for the first time (besides Trans Am) the comparison is valid. Ladytron fuses either (a) 80's synth, speak-'n-spell atmosphere or (b) throbbing analog grooves in to a fun mentality along the lines of Cibo Matto. The end result is something so unique and pleasing to the ear that I can't think of a debut this good since Air's "Moon Safari." If anything, you could actually pair Ladytron up with Air for their sensibility. Neither group over-produces and that lets the music just waft out of the speakers on its own. Playful female vocals get teamed up with melodies that make you think "didn't I hear that on my Atari (or Commodore) once?" HA! That's what makes this great!! Check this CD out because it is the first great techno CD of 2001.

If you are fan of Book Of Love, Depeche Mode, Erasure, and likewise music, you will adore Ladytron. So foreign! So creative! So good you'll be clamoring for even more Ladytron releases! Very techno, but lacks the coldness that a lot of techno music (like Kraftwerk, for instance- and I don't mean that in a bad way! Cold can be good!) is. "Playgirl" is the standout track here. I would LOVE a cd single with remixes, please! Even my cats love this cd!