Time's Arrow, Ladytron, LP

Beauty, disposability and fragility of the culture that surrounds us, and the exhilaration of freeing yourself from those structures... these are the themes Ladytron return to on Time's Arrow, their seventh album. Driven by analogue synths, distorted chimes and hallucinogenic soundscapes, Ladytron crash-landed into electroclash at the turn of the century, using the dancefloor as a bridgehead to the collective unconscious. On Time's Arrow the group add new richness, distant shimmers and a shoegaze-adjacent glow with Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo's trademark understated voices now inhabiting a space somewhere between cloudscape and dream.