The compilation was released yesterday in the UK and will be released today in the US.

 

Check the other new song (a Death in June cover):

 

Fingers crossed for number 75 this Sunday..... :wub:

Thier fifth studio album entitled Gravity the Seducer will be released on 13 September 2011:

 

On September 13 in the U.S. and a day earlier in the UK, synthpop veterans Ladytron will release their new album Gravity the Seducer, the follow-up to 2008's Velocifero, via Nettwerk. The group recorded the album in the English countryside, with Arctic Monkeys/Editors collaborator Barny Barnicott co-producing.

 

In a press release, Ladytron's Daniel Hunt says, "Gravity the Seducer is more of a jump than the last album was, more ethereal and melodic, a touch more abstract in places than we've gone before, baroque 'n' roll. It was a pleasure to make, took us right through last summer. It's our best record, in my opinion."

 

Over the next few months, the group has a few shows planned in Europe and Asia. Group member Mira Aroyo will also do a few North American DJ dates. We've got Ladytron's touring schedule below, as well as their video for the recent Best of Ladytron 00-10 single "Ace of Hz".

 

04-08 Phoenix, AZ - Brick *

04-09 Lexington, KY - Old Pepper Distillery *

04-11 San Diego, CA - U31 Cocktail Lounge *

04-13 San Francisco, CA - Vessel *

04-14 Chicago, IL - Beauty Bar *

04-15 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave Bar *

04-16 Mexico City, Mexico - H20 *

05-01 Beijing, China - Ping Gu Music Festival

05-05 Zagreb, Croatia - Aquarius Club

05-07 Krems, Austria - Donaufestival

05-13 St. Petersburg, Russia - Kosmonavt Club

05-14 Helsinki, Finland - Circus

06-02 Hässleholm, Sweden - Siesta! Festival

06-03 Krakow, Poland - Selector Festival

06-08 London, England - The Forum

06-09 Glasgow, Scotland - The Arches

 

* Mira Aroyo DJ date

 

http://pitchfork.com/news/42071-ladytrons-...y-the-seduceri/

I was just about to post about the new album, beat me to it!

 

Been listening to '604' a lot this week, forgot how much I liked that album at the time.

NME also posted about the new album: http://www.nme.com/news/ladytron/55832

 

 

I was just about to post about the new album, beat me to it!

I suppose I'm the biggest Ladytron fan on this forum... ^_^

 

 

Been listening to '604' a lot this week, forgot how much I liked that album at the time.

Even if 604 is my least favorite LT album (Witching Hour>Velocifero=Light & Magic>604), it's still a solid album.

Even if 604 is my least favorite LT album (Witching Hour>Velocifero=Light & Magic>604), it's still a solid album.

 

Funny, I pretty much rank them in the opposite order :)

Some reviews of Best of 00-10:

 

 

Drowned in Sound: 9/10

 

Can you sling your mind back far enough to remember the first few times you ever ventured out into the night? That first bar or gig where the atmosphere surged over you and you realised that whatever you’re part of isn’t your parent’s thing, isn’t your school’s thing, but instead is somehow your own thing? I hope so, because for me at least, youth in all its boundless, ephemeral glory forms the very essence of pop music for a reason. Indeed, I remember the exact moment that Ladytron blew my tiny little miniature mind when I first heard them as a 17-year-old back in 2003. It was a typical Alex Turner indie-disco vignette, The Strokes, The Hives, snakebite and black, 22-20’s, and then out of nowhere "They only want you when you’re seventeen / when you’re twenty-one / you’re no fun". And in that single moment, my entire musical outlook changed irrevocably.

 

For me, electronic music up to that point meant Dave Pearce’s Dance Anthems; Toca’s Miracle booming out the back of a souped-up Nova, Judge Jools rollin’ out fat ones. Ladytron introduced me to a whole new world of artists for whom Kraftwerk = Year Zero. Electronic music that wasn’t necessarily dance music, underground pop made with analogue synthesizers. Analogue synthesisers full stop. New Order, Roxy Music, Neu!, Can, Tubeway Army, the pieces soon began to fit together, but Ladytron always stood out. And 12 years after they first formed, they still do.

 

Other bands get swept up in a wave of hype before swiftly being carried back to obscurity, whereas Ladytron are like indie-objectivists, perpetually honing their craft with each new album regardless of popular context. Other bands chase trends, whereas Ladytron imbue a unique visual and sonic elegance which never really goes in or out of style. They don’t get NME covers, they’re not a hype band, yet they’re not wilfully obscure or particularly underground either. In fact they have no real template except the one they create for themselves. Its an enviable achievement in this digital-age, so [raises champagne flute]three cheers to Ladytron who this week release a career-spanning retrospective 00-10 Best Of, containing two new songs from their forthcoming album Gravity the Seducer.

 

Sat in front of me is the single-disc 17 track standard-issue version, but what’s more exciting is the double-disc deluxe edition that Rueben mentions in the recent DiS interview. Here there’s tour footage /photo booklets / obscure B-sides / other stuff to replicate the days of yore when records were something to actually hold in your hand and to enjoy and unwrap and [snooze].

 

As for the track selection, well, to think of it as a ‘Best Of’ is somewhat arbitrary. Really, this is a sampler of songs from four consistently strong albums. Choosing the 17 best Ladytron songs would be a bit like choosing the 17 best Big Macs you’ve ever eaten, as of 604, Light and Magic and Witching Hour especially are almost completely devoid of filler. Indeed, you could probably choose an entirely different set of tracks (save for 'Seventeen' and 'Destroy Everything You Touch') and you’d still have an equally plausible best-of.

 

‘Destroy Everything You Touch’ is certainly worth dropping by on again if you haven‘t heard it in a while. Their last.fm stats reveal this to be their most played song by some distance and when it drops as the first track here you can understand why. The intro swoops down with a similar G-Force effect to the THX Deep Note before drums kick in and the entire thing lifts off like a space-shuttle, pinning you to your chair as glacial vocals shimmer and skim across the surface. Played loud enough this song vaporises everything else.

 

I’m worried I’d develop carpal-tunnel if I started listing other highlights on offer here; the mechanical toy-town bounce of ‘Playgirl’, the tranquilising deep-freeze effect of ‘Deep Blue.’ Over the last decade they may have shifted from Computerworld-pop (‘Discotraxx‘) to cosmic shoe-gaze (‘Runaway’) but their quality remains at an astonishing level. It'll be interesting to see where they head next, though the evidence here is certainly promising. Newie 'Ace of Hz' wraps around you like a warm digital blanket, once again its like they've tapped into some innate resonant frequency to which you can only respond by slinking back into your chair and making a satisfied sort of 'aaahhhhh' sound.

 

Ultimately, Ladytron demonstrate the sort of timeless, placeless quality which means you never truly feel like you know them. There’s always a compelling distance, a certain allure inherent in their music which culminates in genuine mystique. Few other modern British bands have it, but then, few other modern British bands underscore glistening vocals with Bulgarian spoken-word or give all their synthesizers individual names. It’s this subtle distinction between fashion and style that has seen Ladytron outlast a decade’s worth of fads to come out the other side sounding as fresh as they did back at the tail-end of the nineties. Its truly an achievement, and 00-10 is the perfect way to celebrate.

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16076/r...mmended-records

 

 

 

MusicOMH: 4/5

 

At the tail-end of the 1990s, when Britpop was panting its last breath, Ladytron weren't just a breath of fresh air. At a time when electronic music was considered naff and record companies were still scouring the toilet circuit on the look-out for the next Oasis, they sounded completely out of this world.

 

Their 1999 debut single, He Took Her To A Movie, was a brave but understated mix of Kraftwerk's eerie, sci-fi electronica and, aptly, Roxy Music's mood and themes. At a time when guitars ruled the airwaves, the robotic vocals of Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo were immediately fascinating, and their first album, 604, didn't disappoint.

 

Twelve years and four albums later they've collected their best bits together for a retrospective, ahead of the release of their fifth studio album, Gravity The Seducer, later this year.

 

While it isn't compiled in chronological order, even a first time listener would be able to group the tracks according to the albums they're lifted from. 2001's 604 is sexy, icy and unforgiving; Discotraxx, The Way That I Found You and Playgirl are frosty and desolate against the more polished, sultry songs that followed.

 

2002's Light And Magic contributes some of the band's best known tracks; Seventeen, Blue Jeans and Cracked LCD, while the fluffier, friendlier side of Ladytron was etched out in 2005's Witching Hour (Destroy Everything You Touch, International Dateline, Beauty *2).

 

Ladytron have followed a similar route to peers and fellow noughties electro-revivalists Goldfrapp. They've very slowly edged away from the discontented, spooky sounds that earned them a cult following at the start of the last decade, and moved towards a more glossy, grown up sound. Ladytron's last album, 2008's Velocifero was their most radio-friendly to date, and as such its representatives, including Ghosts, Runaway and Black Cat, play up their trademark breathy vocals and have a more obvious dance vein, but played alongside the sparse, industrial sounds of their earlier work sound disposable and forgettable.

 

Perhaps their greatest single, the debut that announced their arrival, He Took Her To A Movie, is missed out thanks to the time frame (it was released a few months too early) imposed by the collection's title, but two new songs are sneaked in. Single Ace of Hz continues the sound established by Velocifero, while a reworking of Death In June's Little Black Angel sees them submerged back into a darker, cloudier place.

 

Ladytron have become one of those bands we take for granted; they're solid, steady and reliable. We've come to know what to expect from a Ladytron album, there are few surprises and as a band they keep themselves to themselves. So a collection like this is a timely reminder of what they've achieved; from the cold, hard sounds of 604 to the futuristic disco of Witching Hour, Best of 00-10 is a comprehensive over view of endlessly interesting band.

http://www.musicomh.com/albums/ladytron-3_0311.htm

 

 

 

Contact Music: 9/10

 

One question that won't come up in any music quizzes of the foreseeable future is the bafflingly unanswerable "Why aren't Ladytron one of the biggest bands in the world?" Nevertheless, as bemusing facts go, it really is quite scandalous that one of the most innovative outfits to grace these shores this past decade still never have a top forty hit single amongst their hugely impressive back catalogue.

 

Formed in 1999 through a shared love of electronic pop and Roxy Music, the four-piece of Helen Marnie, Reuben Wu, Mira Aroyo and Daniel Hunt arrived like a breath of fresh air amidst a squalid stench of acoustic dullards and Yanks in big shorts. In any other era, their pristine, elaborately executed pop would have set the accountants running to the hills counting their sales figures along the way, and yet for some reason Joe Public at large failed to catch on. Maybe by some quirk of fate Ladytron were actually ahead of the game? Certainly the commercial success of peers like Simian Mobile Disco and La Roux suggests there is a market out there for such wares after all, yet none of those who've followed suit can boast to having matched the consistency album-for-album, single-for-single, that Ladytron have achieved so effortlessly throughout their eleven year existence.

 

While most 'Best Of' compilations tend to be little more than chronological history lessons from start to finish of a band's career, 'Best Of 00-10' veers off the traditional beaten track somewhat. Comprising seventeen tracks in all, two of which are previously unreleased until now, the main facet of such a collection is the staggering level of quality on display throughout the entire record. Even the band's earliest forays into recording, 'Playgirl' and 'Discotraxx', the only two songs culled from 2001's debut long player '604', still sound as fresh and invigorating as when first released.

 

In fact, taking in the entire contents of 'Best Of 00-10' its difficult to pinpoint a weak link. 'Destroy Everything You Touch' and 'Tomorrow' could both quite easily take first and second place were there an award bestowed on the great-lost pop song of the past decade. Similarly the futuristic 'International Dateline', pervasive 'Seventeen' and pre-GaGa pomp of 'Runaway' all deserve accolades of their own for bringing intelligence and nuance into a genre seemingly lost at the hands of an endless stream of Syco and Ark Music puppets.

 

Elsewhere, current single 'Ace Of Hz' and Death In June cover 'Little Black Angel' give us a sneak taster of what to expect from forthcoming long player 'Gravity The Seducer', while debates will no doubt continue long into the ether about the band's decision not to include such immaculate gems as 'Sugar', 'Evil' and 'Paco!' on what is an otherwise flawless compilation.

 

Still, I guess that's what comes from having such an impeccable back catalogue to fall back on. Ladytron, we salute you. Here's to another ten years of sheer excellence.

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/a...n-best-of-00-10

 

 

 

The Independent

 

For a variety of reasons – among them an almost comical succession of bad luck and the continuing tastelessness of the general public – Ladytron's rightful status as one of the greatest British bands of the past decade has remained largely unrecognised.

 

The internationalist (Scouse-Chinese-Scottish-Bulgarian-Israeli) electro-rock quartet may not have presented a comprehensive summary of their career here, but it's a superb starting point for Ladytron latecomers, containing classics such as early statement of intent "Playgirl" and closest-thing-to-a-pop-hit "Seventeen". There are also two new tracks: a pulsating cover and the self-penned "Ace of Hz", whose effortless elegance matches Ladytron's finest. Which, when you hear the rest of this sublime compilation, you'll realise is about as high as praise can get.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...rk-2254528.html

 

 

MORE TO COME...

 

 

 

Funny, I pretty much rank them in the opposite order :)

I think at least 70% of Ladytron fans agree that Witching Hour is their best album (and not just because of Destroy Everything You Touch).

Edited April 1, 201114 yr by alin

Witching Hour is by far their best album for me... best tracks are Destroy, Beauty*2, Last One Standing, High Rise, Soft Power...

 

I also love Tomorrow too, although I do slightly prefer the punchier single version.

I really really want this <3 They're one of those bands that you really like but never seem to make time for by the looks of it, so this should be perfect to get me proper into them again.

I think at least 70% of Ladytron fans agree that Witching Hour is their best album (and not just because of Destroy Everything You Touch).

 

I've no problem with that, I just like the early stuff best. Think that's when I was most excited about them.

 

I have The Witching Hour - I may download the best of.

Some "Best of 00-10" ratings so far:

 

Drowned in Sound: 9/10

Allmusic: 4/5 (also AMG album pick)

Contact Music: 9/10

MusicOMH: 4/5

The Independent: positive

BBC music: positive

The Onion: 4/5

This Is Fake DIY: 8/10

Blurt: 9/10

The Owl Mag: positive

 

Read all reviews (plus links to original sites) here.

Late as usual: Pitchfork gave a 8.2 rating to Best of 00-10

http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15377-best-of-00-10/