Ladytron – A Death In London
Today, electronic pop icons Ladytron share another single ahead of their highly anticipated new album, Paradises.
Balearic Noir “A Death in London” was the first song written for the LP, and to the band, it is the record’s soul – the track around which the rest of Paradises quickly coalesced. It is Ladytron at their witchy best.
The song, which the band claims was written on ‘Leonard Cohen’s Casio,’ feels like pagan folk on an 808, and shuffles seductively with a marimba groove to die for. A Ballardian love song – art pop in sweat-soaked synthetic fibres – it’s like a Negroni enjoyed at the event horizon of a black hole sun. It is a psychic safari through a sinuous lost city, with the sun directly overhead – a dispatch from a sweltering, amorous wasteland; ‘A place where dreams go to die…. I’m glad you met me alive…’
In and out of vogue with the flutter of Madame Butterfly’s wing, “A Death in London” is another piece that nobody else could pull off, and with which Ladytron once again justify our love.
“A Death in London” follows earworm “Caught in the Blink of an Eye,” the hypnotic “I Believe in You,” hard-hitting banger “I See Red,” and ethereal duet “Kingdom Undersea,” which will all appear on the band’s much anticipated new album, Paradises, due out on March 20th via Nettwerk.
This Spring, Ladytron will take the stage for some initial UK shows, launching the album and tour in hometown of Liverpool, before returning to North America with new tour dates in May and June. The five-date run will see Ladytron bring their new live show to Los Angeles, Berkeley, Seattle, Portland, and Denver.
LADYTRON 2026 TOUR DATES:
UNITED KINGDOM DATES:
March 19 – Liverpool, UK @ Arts Club Theatre
March 20 – Newcastle, UK @ Digital
March 21 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
NORTH AMERICAN DATES:
May 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
May 30 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre
May 31 – Seattle, WA @ The Neptune
June 02 – Portland, OR @ Revolution
June 03 – Denver, CO @ Oriental
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