Liverpool,
UK based band. Ladytron are:
Mira Aroyo,
Helena Marnie,
Danny Hunt and
Reuben Wu.
Ladytron have been described as as '
methodoneabba', '
kraftwerk meeting nico in the 24 hour chemist', 'the hit stage version of a brave new world' and most bizarre 'a teasing glimpse of how
Britney Spears might have sounded, had she been born in the GDR and a heroin addict........'
Their first record got
NME single of the week in December 1999 : "this is such a fantastic record, i have to play it over and over again to make sure I never dreamed it into existence.....it's too hypnotic, too perfectly realised, too moving........Sod the millennium-i'm off to East Berlin, tonight we're going to party like it's 1981"--
Stephen Dalton.
"Ladytron are what early 80s
futurists envisaged pop music would be like in the year 2000: two dark-haired, black-clad male units tweak miniature noiseboxes at the back, while two dark-haired, black-clad female units tickle vintage
synths and chant minimalist vocals in the foreground. And they look fantastic, existentialist art-terroist chic meets Comme Des Garcons catwalk show......"