Ladytron Announce New Album, Release Lead Single, City of Angels

Ladytron recently remarked (via their Twitter account) that, with Liverpool having been awarded Eurovision hosting duties next year, they were ready to enter 2023’s song contest. I can’t tell whether or not they were being serious – but why not? On the strength of new single City of Angels – their first new music since 2019 – the band only emphasises their appeal to many different tastes.

Respected and critically acclaimed by those in the know, they also have their fair share of floor fillers – aware or not, you will have danced along to something from their impressive back catalogue. Recently celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their 2002 LP Light&Magic, Ladytron are enjoying a bit of a moment: last year saw the brilliant Seventeen occupy top 10s globally (thanks to going viral on short-form video platform, TikTok), reminding us why we fell in love with the band all those years ago.

Hearing City of Angels – featuring Ladytron’s classic driving, icy rhythms – serves to whet appetites. And fans can look forward with confidence to the January 2023 release of new album, Time’s Arrow which, we’re told, addresses themes of: “Beauty, disposability and fragility of the culture that surrounds us, and the exhilaration of freeing yourself from those structures.” Bring it on.

Dates for Your Diary:

Time’s Arrow will be released 10 January, 2023, by Cooking Vinyl Limited

UK Tour

March 10th, 2023 – Glasgow, SWG3

March 11th, 2023 – Liverpool, Camp & Furnace

March 12th, 2023 – London, Koko

Mike Pinnington

Ladytron Time’s Arrow – Photo Credit Wendy Redfern