Ladytron have announced a new album, Paradises. The follow-up to 2023’s Time’s Arrow is slated for release on March 20 via Nettwerk. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Kingdom Undersea’, which finds vocalists Helen Marnie and Daniel Hunt dueting over a groovy piano riff. Check it out below.
Paradises was produced by Hunt and mixed by longtime collaborator Jim Abbiss. “When I heard the demos for Paradises, I was truly blown away,” Abbiss commented. The variety in songwriting and arrangements reminded me of Witching Hour, but with its own unique atmosphere, sonics, and attitude.” Marnie added, “It was like a homecoming. We just fit. His enthusiasm is contagious, and having that in the room really creates a kind of magic.”
The album took shape across Liverpool, São Paulo, Montrose, and Dalston. It was completed at Dean Street Studios in Soho, London. “I wanted to write from that perspective and channel that fun feeling of first working together back in the late ’90s when we had nothing to lose,” Mira Aroyo reflected.
“Every time I went into the studio, I’d come out after an hour with a new track,” Hunt said. “The key motivation was fun. Everything became fun again. There’s an itch we never scratched, which is that despite our origins in the DJ world, we never actually made a ‘disco’ record. Albeit, ‘disco’ in our context has a somewhat different meaning.”
Paradises Cover Artwork:
Paradises Tracklist:
1. I Believe in You
2. In Blood
3. Kingdom Undersea
4. I See Red
5. A Death in London
6. Secret Dreams of Thieves
7. Sing
8. Free, Free
9. Metaphysica
10. Caught in the Blink of an Eye
11. Evergreen
12. Ordinary Love
13. We Wrote Our Names in the Dust
14. Heatwaves
15. Solid Light
16. For a Life in London
