Ladytron – Spinning Platters

Show Review: Ladytron w/Danz CM @ The Belasco 09-22-23

“Destroy Everything You Touch”

Despite what most of my articles may have you believe, I don’t solely listen to Metal and Punk music. I know, I know, illusion shattered, but I like to believe that despite my inkling towards heavy music, I still have a fairly eclectic taste. The commonality is probably in the thematic songwriting, which almost always leans a bit toward the darker side of things. What I’m trying to say is that I’m a pretty damn big fan of Ladytron, and I have been since my high school days. So of course, I jumped at the chance to catch them at The Belasco Theatre, a venue which is fast becoming my home away from home, in DTLA.

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Album Review: Ladytron – Ladytron

Of all the bands that I’ve been obsessed with over my life time, Ladytron was one that I came to on the later portion of their career. While I appreciate their first two albums, it wasn’t until the dark post-rock infusion of Witching Hour that I my ears suddenly perked up and I realized how much more there was to this band. Even then I wasn’t fully hooked and completely obsessed until Velocifero blew my head apart. To say that I’ve been waiting and anticipating a new Ladytron album since Gravity the Seducer was released almost a decade ago is an understatement of the century – at least in my household – so imagine how excited I was when all the rumors were confirmed by an e-mail from Pledge Music that they were in the studio working on a new album and then later when Spotify notified me that a new single – at the time “The Animals” – had been officially released. I lost my shit. Plain and simple.

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Show Review: Ladytron with SONOIO and Polaris At Noon at the Regency Ballroom, 9/25/2011

Make free of the cities where time stands still

I have often said that electronic music concerts are the best example of an experience that can go one of two ways: either the dull setting of a single DJ with a mild array of lights and unreasonably loud walls of bass that do more to rattle your teeth than to provide enjoyable percussion, or a full-on experience — from either one man with a table covered in expensive gear, or an entire band centered around synths, drum machines, or other instruments of the digital age — with a dazzling visual accompaniment. It also helps, of course, if you have more to bring to the table than simple a throbbing house beat and a simple-yet-evolving methodology to your melody and rhythm; adding traditional or untraditional rock instruments, as well as an aesthetic that blends them with the sweeping pulses that make up the backbone of your sound, is a sure-fire way to something refreshing and undoubtedly successful. Such is the case with the Liverpool music collective known as Ladytron, who also up the scale every time they play by bringing an eclectic set of opening acts — guaranteeing an exciting show every time.

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