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Ladytron: amTV

This Liverpool quartet’s new album is streets ahead of their previous two full-length releases, both in terms of production and songwriting. An album that should be played in playing fields, with the speakers one hundred yards apart. Loud. It’s all doused in liquid nitrogen but despite it’s horrifyingly cold demeanour there’s a lot of warmth, like when you’re so cold you feel really warm. And it has guitars that don’t sound like guitars, or rather it has synths, that sound like guitars which don’t sound like guitars. Lots of them. And no guitars.

amTV is not the most obvious track of the day. It’s less musically forward than other tracks, but the chilling lyrics “Watching TV at 4am / that’s not when she needs a friend / staring at the bathroom floor / please don’t say you’ve got go”, reminds my of Alice, which is always a good move, and there’s this lovely walking synth line which acts as a break between verses and pops-up mid-verse too.

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