604

Ladytron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 6, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Emperor Norton
• ASIN: B0000589EC
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,825 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mu-Tron

2. Discotraxx

3. Another Breakfast With You

4. Cska Sofia

5. The Way That I Found You

6. Paco

7. Commodore Rock

8. Zmeyka

9. Playgirl

10. I'm With the Pilots

11. This Is Our Sound

12. He Took Her to a Movie

13. Laughing Cavalier

14. Ladybird

15. Jet Age

16. Skools Out...

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Is this what we once imagined the future would sound like? On 604 Liverpool-based synth-pop collective Ladytron show all the electronic hallmarks of 1980, only without the "New Dawn of Technology" neurosis. Remember in those days how man feared the totalitarian march of the machine? How we worried that our friends might be electric? That our minds might be toys? That video would kill the radio star? That human labor would be redundant and we'd all be reduced to a Mao-suited existence in some morose metropolis? OK, so 604 does contain a few Marxist nursery rhymes (sung by stern Bulgarian female vocalist Mira Aroyo) but it also contains a version of the theme tune to '70s sit-com "Are You Being Served" (sung sweetly by the kittenish "Bond girl" voice of Helen Marnie). Ladytron's inspired, accessible electro-pop is where latter-day, Tarwater-style Krautrock meets the melodic appeal of the Human League, the Pet Shop Boys and Abba, with just a little bit of the sociosexual commentary of Black Box Recorder thrown in for good measure. Gary Numan was never as much fun as this. --Kevin Maidment

Product Description

Ladytron successfully fuses together the cold darkness of computer rock with lingering catchy hooks found only in great pop songs. Like Human League and Kraftwerk, throw in a Giorgio Moroder bassline aimed at the dancefloor, and top it off with the rhythmic sensibilities of classic funk and England's Northern Soul Movement. 16 tracks. Standard jewel case. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars to dance to, May 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 604 (Audio CD)

ladytron provokes disinterested dancing: you know, the kind where you stand in the darker corner of the club, against the wall, and slightly move your upper body back and forth while sneering at everyone else because you're so high on coke.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars everything old is new again, February 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: 604 (Audio CD)

ladytron is the most exciting band i've heard in a very long time. they make me feel all dizzy and excited and out of breath, sort of like the the first time i heard stereolab. cool, smart bands are so rare in this era of bad, trickle down, ghetto-wannabe pop. ladytron have renewed my faith in youth/pop/whatever culture. i've told everyone i know to listen to them right this minute, but no one's paying attention which, i suppose, is fitting since no one listened to their references either. buy '604,' dance naked on your roof, and taste the magic.

(only disappointment is this disc's exclusion of their cover of human league's 'open your heart.' it's a brill reinterpretation.)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the most consistently inventive recording I've...., September 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: 604 (Audio CD)

heard since Pulp's "Different Class." In Ladytron, I have found what for me is the epitome of electonic "pop" music. I first heard Ladytron's single "Playgirl" and was hooked from the first beat. I was afraid that the CD would be average with Playgirl being the only standout "single." I was very excited to hear that almost all of these songs, including the instrumental Mu-Tron, could stand as singles on their own merit. It's true that some of this sounds like earlier synth-pop recordings, but Ladytron takes things in a more fully developed direction beyond mere pop. Every single song sounds well thought out and there is no filler song here. Unlike an earlier commenter here wrote, I believe "Commodore Rock" echoes early Heaven 17. "He took her to a Movie" like Visage and "Discotraxx" like Saint Etienne.

It's been in my car's CD player since I got it. While many other CDs have come and gone this one will probably occupy slot #6 until the next Ladytron recording comes out, which I hope is very soon.