Their lyrics aren’t particularly deep, the vocals aren’t exactly showing a wide range of pitch or even emotion, originality between songs is mostly lacking, and though the backing is pretty boss, the main melodies are on the verge of being nursery rhymes…
… and yet I adore this band, with their smooth and entrancing synth, simple lyrics sung with Helen Marnie’s silky enticing northern/scottish accent.
I can’t shake the idea that I’m listening to low quality barely thought out music, but I also can’t shake the idea that anyone’s trying to sell me on them either.
They just put out these WYHIWYG songs, and there’s this sense of raw honesty to their bleak and bland style that really jams with me.
Music without pretense, subtext, or reference. Just music. I love it.
I think they’re fantastic. Ghosts is probably my favourite song from them.
Ghosts is a tune
Ladytron is a feel. Good stuff for that vibe.
She Wants Revenge is another adjacent band from the same timeframe.
They’re very comfortable to listen to, partly because they don’t have much variety. 604 has most of their best songs (imo) Discotraxx, Another Breakfast with You, Playgirl, and Ladybird are all great, slightly sad sounding.
International Dateline has that melancholy too
It’s a great vibe
they were ok when I saw them live with NIN
I prefer genghis tron
Flicking Your Switch
Ladytron
Saw your visa card, and took a trip downtown
i don’t really care that there’s people around
9-2-3, 8-1-6
is the sound of them flicking your switch
8-1-5, 9-1-4
does this mean you don’t trust me anymore?
from the pictured album, great song
I purchased the album on compact disc when it was released. I remember getting it from the general store, where Mr. Willoughby would sell penny candy to us kids for a ha’penny if he was in a good mood. Then we ran down the road, rolling our hoops with our sticks. That was the day I got my first tricorn hat.
Yeah, in all seriousness, it’s a great song.
Ah, I remember listening to Ghosts as sung acapella by friends and neighbours down by the Baker street underground, as we hid from the Luftwaffe during the Blitz
Those were the days.
I’ve never heard of them before but I’m going to go listen right now.
Destroy Everything You Touch is always a banger
Saw this post and that was the first song I thought of.
Also, I realise someone released a parody of them before they were properly popular. This is a show called Look Around You which had a segment which tried to predict what music in the year 2000 was going to sound like:
- Look Around You - I’m Rapping (rap parody, famous on the net)
- Look Around You - Macadenu (no words…)
- Look Around You - Toni Baxter (ladytron parody)
Great whilst on a ton of mushrooms
