Customer Reviews

604

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3 star:		(1)
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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.

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.)

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.

Ladytron does a good job trying to fuse post-Beck nerd-funk with kraftwerkian krautrock. Loose, almost sloppy grooves blend with fat vintage synthesizers and a jet-age style. Helena Marnie's childlike vocals for some reason conjour up images of a bored airline hostess on one of 2001's interplanetary shuttles.

The downside of this album is that the really great tracks often drown among the weird experimental "jam-session" tracks and self-conscious retro feel. "Commodore Rock" is a bit repetative, "CSKA Sofia" is quite repetative, while "ZMEYKA" is jarring with its screechy violin. "He Took Her To a Movie" is so krautrock-retro (right down to the droll vocal delivery) you can sing the lyrics to Kraftwerk's "The Model" along.

Luckily, there are tracks like "Discotraxx", "Ladybird" and "Paco!" that are so catchy you can't help but sing along. It's the same sort of effect as a Bis album, except lacking in the teen elements.

This is one of those albums you are so happy to stumble across! It certainly fell in to my lap and nothing this refreshing has come by me in a long time. I get so tired of hearing all the comparisons to Kraftwerk but for the first time (besides Trans Am) the comparison is valid. Ladytron fuses either (a) 80's synth, speak-'n-spell atmosphere or (b) throbbing analog grooves in to a fun mentality along the lines of Cibo Matto. The end result is something so unique and pleasing to the ear that I can't think of a debut this good since Air's "Moon Safari." If anything, you could actually pair Ladytron up with Air for their sensibility. Neither group over-produces and that lets the music just waft out of the speakers on its own. Playful female vocals get teamed up with melodies that make you think "didn't I hear that on my Atari (or Commodore) once?" HA! That's what makes this great!! Check this CD out because it is the first great techno CD of 2001.

"604" remains one of my favorite albums in the electronica subgenre of "electroclash". This music features retro, simplistic beats and often a bored-sounding female vocalist. As you can imagine from that description, a lot of electroclash doesn't stand up well to repeated listenings, but "604" is definitely an exception. The music is catchy without being too repetitive, aside from a track or two where I am just starting to think, "this has gone on too long" when the track ends. My favorite tracks are "Discotraxx" and "The Way That I Found You," but the whole album is pretty solid.

Ladytron have a great retro-futuristic vibe to their music--it sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie where everyone wears fabulous costumes and sits in bubble chairs. I suggest this music to add a sophisticated touch to any party, to listen to while driving, or to get inspiration while trying to design your new space-ace bachelor pad.

If you are fan of Book Of Love, Depeche Mode, Erasure, and likewise music, you will adore Ladytron. So foreign! So creative! So good you'll be clamoring for even more Ladytron releases! Very techno, but lacks the coldness that a lot of techno music (like Kraftwerk, for instance- and I don't mean that in a bad way! Cold can be good!) is. "Playgirl" is the standout track here. I would LOVE a cd single with remixes, please! Even my cats love this cd!

While Ladytron has obvious influences from 80's synth-pop in their sounds, the music as a whole is very modern. Progressions and rythms are very current. This is a great album- very interesting and very original. I'm 'remided' a bit of Atari Teenage Riot, Trans-X, Massive Attack, Visage, and Pizzicato Five, listening to it. I wouldn't rate any single track on this album below a 3 and most are 5's. Do you like synthesizers? Then buy it!

If you have the pleasure to be able to purchase this album do so. This is one of 2001's best technology based albums.

With a Roxy Music song as the bands name and throw in beatboxes and vintage synths you have one great album from start to finish. With two DJ's and a former runway model in the group the band knows how to write saterical lyrics and pull off rather mundane topics with style and insight. Picking up where Kraftwerk and Human League left off LadyTron are just as modern but with less esoteric lyrics, and more "human" than there counter parts.

Most tracks make excellent dancefloor diddies (I actualy did hear "Playgirl" at a local lounge/danceclub) but do not expect the stereotypical throbbing bass and digital overlay. Think Elastica meets Kraftwerk.

Their debut should have knocked the block off the overrated, implodingly sugary pop scene.
Regardless of mainstream, this is pop music that should be getting everyone's attention.
It's filled with clever, time-warping references and killer...well...grooves! (and melodies)
Also, it contains cute synthesized interludes, which always build into the next coming sublime pop hook, but serve as a respite from the ecstasy this music induces all the way through.
From the frantically cool instrumental opener, all through the first songs, to the unstoppable "Playgirl" to the whimsical "Jet Age" and the very end of the album, this is an addictive mix of modern-disco, Bulgarian rap, and melodic bliss you absolutely shouldn't pass by.
And...may I add that this album's release was a perfect way to start off the new milennium.