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| | Light & Magic | | | Music Artist : | | Ladytron | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Emperor Norton | | Release Date : | | 2004-07-20 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. True Mathematics
2. Seventeen
3. Flicking Your Switch
4. Fire
5. Turn It On
6. Blue Jeans
7. Cracked LCD
8. Black Plastic
9. Evil
10. Startup Chime
11. Nuhorizons
12. Cease2xist
13. Re: Agents
14. Light & Magic
15. Reason Why
16. Seventeen [Remix][*]
17. Cracked LCD [Live in Sofia]
18. Light & Magic [Live in Sofia]
19. Evil [Pop Levi Mix][*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Ladytron!!!
Submitted on: 2008-10-09 |
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| This CD is wonderful and the group brings a new fresk sound the the airwaves. I first saw their videos on German tv. Now I have all their cds and give each 5 stars! |
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 dis nonsense but "witching hour" be very good
Submitted on: 2006-06-25 |
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dat lady right which say de ony good song be "17"--da rest be wispy
nonsense wid NO GUITARS. dey better on de latest record where dey discover de guitar. dis muchly dissable! AVOID and get de "witching hour". i ought know: i witch part-time. |
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Not worth it
Submitted on: 2006-06-18 |
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I bought this CD because I didn't mind the "Witching Hour" album. "Light and Magic" did not meet my expectations- the songs weren't paced enough for my liking. The album gets 1 star for the "Seventeen" song.
If you're looking for an electronica band that is paced well and instrument-rich, try Lali Puna. |
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 Great, but not better than their debut
Submitted on: 2006-03-20 |
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| This was my first Ladytron album. While I find it kinda boring compared to "604" it's still a great album to crank up every once in a while. Some of the songs tend to stand out more than others. Some songs are more redundant than others. However, this album still rocks with some of it's catchy vocals and beats. Buuuttt... I could never get into "Nuhorizons" very much. |
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When Electroclash existed, this was its best album
Submitted on: 2006-01-04 |
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Whether you like or hate the electroclash label it seems to attach itself to Ladytron and every other contemporary that they are paired with. Of that genre, I believe this is the best album so far, better than Ladytron's own '604', better than Fischerspooner's catchy, buzz-worthy '#1' and stronger than anything that Chicks On Speed, Adult or Peaches have churned out. Ladytron is the class of the bunch. Their sound is an updated version of 80's electro post-punk/new wave infused with a punk, so-what type of attitude without the juvenile outbursts of anger. Influences clearly lie in the vein of Depeche Mode, New Order, Kraftwerk, Visage and forth - a perfect line could be drawn to the seemingly forgotten femme electronic new wave band Book of Love... all electroclash bands ought to honor these overlooked and very good electro-femmes.
Ladytron's music sounds somewhat cold without ever feeling clinical or contrived. The vocals, sung by 2 females, tend to be flat and emotionally detached while remaining infectiously catchy and sexy. If Ladytron did a surprise club gig they could play under the name Sexy Robots (Ladytron, if you read this you can use that free of charge). The beat has been turned up from '604', enough so that you could put this in the industrial lite bucket (for those of you who still think industrial means harsh and violent, get a clue - industrial bands nowadays tend to be supercharged 80's new wave combining laser sharp synths, pounding beats and a strong sense of melody totally absent in so-called techno... the vocals aren't even distorted anymore).
The second track "Seventeen" is an obvious single with its burrow-its-way-into-your-brain chorus and pleasant rhythm; the song is an attack on modern fashion-crazy, youth-obsessed culture and its treatment of humans as disposable props. The odd thing is that Ladytron themselves are tragically fashionable, almost annoyingly hip and seem to be very happy with their fashion-for-the-moment image; this is a simple observation rather than an outright criticism. "Flicking Your Switch" is another favorite, telling the story of a woman wondering if she has betrayed her man's trust after stealing his credit card and going on a shameless, downtown shopping spree - funny and clever. "Turn It On" is a minimal, mostly instrumental song awash in ambience. The sparse "Cracked LCD" is the ultimate in robot pop, clean and distant. "Black Plastic" and "Blue Jeans" contain the closest thing to sung vocals on the album. The major single is "Evil" featuring devilish hooks and a fluid chorus. Another item of interest in "NuHorizons" sung in Mira's native Bulgarian.
`Light & Magic' is a required disc for fans of electronic music. If you are willing to stray a bit from pure electroclash, I'd suggest checking out 2 other excellent female-led electronic acts: Epsilon Minus and Android Lust... great band names too. |
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