Pool Of Sound - Ladytron

Ladytron

'Ladytron' is an electronic music band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The group consists of Helen Marnie on lead vocals and synthesizers, Mira Aroyo on vocals and synthesizers, Daniel Hunt on vocals, guitar and synthesizers and Reuben Wu also on synthesizers. With their name taken from the song 'Ladytron' by 'Roxy Music', their sound blends electropop with new wave and shoegazing elements. 'Ladytron' themselves describe their sound as 'electronic pop'.
It all started with a batch of Daniel Hunt's songs and a collection of vintage synths. Hunt and fellow Liverpool born Wu met in the late 1990s and through various DJ gigs met Glasgow-born Helen Marnie a student at Liverpool University and later native Bulgarian, Mira Aroyo through a mutual friend in the summer of 1999. Daniel found that he shared myriad interests with his new collaborators - French electronica, Krautrock, and various evolutionary dead ends of pop history. It was a strange brew because the landscape at the time was populated by guitar-based alternative rock bands and house music, with little crossover.

With the artistic success of their early singles, their debut album '604' followed in 2001 winning acclaim for its evocative synth based production and tight pop songwriting, so suddenly 'Ladytron' were a worldwide phenomenon.
'Light & Magic,' their 2nd album, with its more sophisticated melodies, labyrinthine arrangements, varying textures and broad emotional shades added up to what many consider to be the band's landmark album. 'Seventeen', 'Blue Jeans' and 'Evil' became underground hits for a band increasingly enjoying prime time airplay.
While their progress with their home audiences was steady, they were certifiable stars when they finally hit North America in 2003. Their first U.S. tour sold out, and they made the first of two appearances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, playing an electrifying set with a lineup expanded to include a live drummer and bass player.

Witching Hour

Their 3rd album, 'Witching Hour', was greeted with almost unanimous acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, with the banging single, 'Destroy Everything You Touch', stamped as the band's signature song. Aroyo said, "In some ways it was the first album where we knew exactly what we wanted to sound like".
In June 2008 they released their fourth album 'Velocifero' on Nettwerk featuring a heavier sound but it would be three years before their next, and fifth studio album, 'Gravity the Seducer' was released in the United Kingdom and the USA in the September of 2011. They then toured extensively and, with band members becoming involved in various side projects, it wasn't until February 2018 that they announced their forthcoming sixth studio album, 'Ladytron', which was their first new music in seven years and, in partnership with Pledge Music, the album was released in 2019. Helen said, " It's different to our previous efforts, but I think it needed to be. We needed to come back as a new, refreshed 'Ladytron' and that is definitely expressed through this record." There were over eight hundred packed into Liverpool Academy for their first appearance since 2011 who danced, listened, swayed and thrusted as the band powered through their strongest moments until the end with sweat dripping off the walls and the 30-something crowd baying for more.

'Ladytron' has created a body of work that reveals a fresh creative arc and, as time has told, served as a reference point for a current crop of artists such as Lady Gaga, 'Goldfrapp', 'La Roux' and 'Crystal Castles'. Brian Eno has said, " 'Ladytron' are, for me, the best of English pop music. They're the kind of band that really only appears in England, with this funny mixture of eccentric art- school dicking around and dressing up, with a full awareness of what's happening everywhere musically, which is kind of knitted together and woven into something quite new."
Far from their humble beginnings in Liverpool, all four members of 'Ladytron' are based in different parts of the world these days. Aroyo lives in London, Hunt is based in Brazil, Wu now resides in Chicago, while Marnie is back in her native Glasgow.

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