LADYTRON - GRAVITY THE SEDUCER (LP)

Ladytron Gravity The Seducer on LP

Ladytron earned a decade’s worth of acclaim by relentlessly pushing boundaries, carving out new sonic and conceptual space and refusing to abide by any formula or trend. So it’s testimony to their craft to say that Gravity The Seducer, the fifth album from the electro-pop provacateurs, is vintage Ladytron, because like each of the four preceding albums, it's not quite like anything the quartet has done before.

Gravity The Seducer comes on the heels of the career-spanning retrospective, Best Of Ladytron: 00-10 and represents a remarkable evolution in the evocative yet precise pop fashioned by Daniel Hunt, Reuben Wu, Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. It has emerged as the quartet’s most cinematic work to date.

The first track, "White Elephant," is a bouquet of keys, harpsichord and strings that features Marnie's satiny vocals. "In a way, it's the seed of the record," Hunt says. "It exemplifies the album in terms of attitude and mood."

The album's title comes from the track "90 Degrees." Another one of Gravity The Seducer's defining moments, this desert-sky hallucination attests to Hunt's claim that this chapter in the Ladytron saga was "about expanding our creative horizons." The finished product is a feat for the head and the headphones.

Ladytron Gravity The Seducer Track Listing:

1.  White Elephant
2.  Mirage
3.  White Gold
4.  Ace of Hz
5.  Ritual
6.  Moon Palace
7.  Altitude Blues
8.  Ambulances
9.  Melting Ice
10. Transparent Days
11. 90 Degrees
12. Aces High