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| | Light & Magic | | | Music Artist : | | Ladytron | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Emperor Norton | | Release Date : | | 2002-09-17 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. True Mathematics
2. Seventeen
3. Flicking Your Switch
4. Fire
5. Turn It On
6. Bluejeans
7. Cracked LCD
8. Black Plastic
9. Evil
10. Startup Chime
11. NuHorizons
12. Cease2xist
13. Re:Agents
14. Light & Magic
15. The Reason Why
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 It is alright
Submitted on: 2008-09-26 |
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| This disk was selling well so I wanted to see what the interest was and I found it so-so. I don't really listen to it now that I have it. |
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 Not bad but not very good either - overall uneven and hard to listen to - 3.5 stars
Submitted on: 2006-01-03 |
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This album is historically important for helping launch electroclash (hence my 3.5 stars, though that was more the album "604" than "Light & Magic". The song "Seventeen" was a decent hit for the genre although I think "Cracked LCD" is a far better sounding song) It has about 5 good-to-decent songs. Unfortunately there's not much else to it. Most of the album is pretty hard to listen to and isn't very rewarding if you stick it out. The good songs aren't great or necessary to have ("True Mathematics" and especially "Cracked LCD", though, are arguably great), but while you're listening to them you'll think they're cool (most of it is a guilty pleasure though). Recommended if you are interested in Ladytron, electroclash, or the history of the electroclash genre. I would recommend buying their new album, "Witching Hour", more; you'll like it much better.
Highlights include:
"True Mathematics"
"Seventeen"
"Flicking Your Switch"
"Cracked LCD"
"Startup Chime"
"The Reason Why" (to an extent) |
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 Second album just as good as first.
Submitted on: 2005-09-14 |
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| I was worried as I had heard the second album had not lived up to some people's expectations. However upon listening I think the album shows that Ladytron took the style and format that worked for them (if it ain't broke...) and matured it. I'm looking forward to their new release next month! |
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 Me like, me like
Submitted on: 2004-12-22 |
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| I like "Blue Jeans". A lot. But I believe "Seventeen" is quite possibly the best track on this album. Buy it now! |
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The missing link between Propaganda and Add N To (X)
Submitted on: 2004-11-18 |
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Ladytron are four keyboard players/ composers based in Liverpool who formed in 1998, and comprise Mira Aroyo who is Bulgarian (one track, NuHorizons, is sung in her native tongue) and Helen Marnie, sharing vocal duties; Danny Hunt, responsible for programming and production; and co-founder Reuben Wu.
It may be that a Ladytron is a make of North Korean tractor or an extinct form of winged insect, but I first came across the name as a song on the first Roxy Music album, and I suspect this band did too. They seem to have taken their inspiration not so much from the song or the sound, but from the concept of the name, at once robotic and oestrogenic. The result is twenty-first century electro-synth pop of a high order, as post-ironic cold and disembodied female voices chant against chugging Numanesque soundscapes; the missing link between Propaganda and Add N To (X).
On this 17-track album, recorded in Liverpool and Los Angeles between 2001 and 2002, their are assisted by Michael Fitzpatrick (programming), Malibu (yet more keyboards) and Justin Meldal Johnson (electric bass).
Three of the catchiest songs have been released as singles (possibly in different versions) - Blue Jeans, Evil and Seventeen, though several others could just as well have been. Seventeen was no. 31 in the 2002 John Peel Festive Fifty, and turns up additionally as a guitar-laden remix by Soulwax on this CD. Another track, Cracked LCD, also featured on the CDS of Evil, while an earlier version of the instrumental USA Vs White Noise had appeared on their Mu-Tron EP in 2000 |
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