Veteran Liverpool indie rock outfit Ladytron has returned with a brand new single, “Metropolis of Angels,” forward of the Jan. 20 launch of its seventh studio album, Time’s Arrow. The monitor retains the icy, synth-powered sound for which Ladytron is well-known, with lyrics in regards to the fragility of human civilization.
A video for “Metropolis of Angeles,” directed by Manuel Nogueira, will likely be launched within the coming weeks. As for Time’s Arrow, it’s the follow-up to 2019’s self-titled album, Ladytron’s first since occurring hiatus after the 2011 launch of Gravity the Seducer. Ladytron was funded by way of a Pledgemusic marketing campaign simply earlier than the corporate was shut down for failure to pay artists.
The group obtained an surprising increase in visibility through the pandemic, when its track “Seventeen,” from the 2002 album Gentle & Magic, went viral on TikTok. “Seventeen” now has greater than 40 million streams on Spotify, greater than double every other Ladytron track thus far.
Ladytron will play three U.Ok. reveals subsequent spring: Glasgow on March 10, Liverpool the subsequent day and London on March 12. North American reveals will likely be introduced at a later date.
Right here is the monitor checklist for Time’s Arrow:
“Metropolis of Angels”
“Faces”
“Distress Keep in mind Me”
“Flight From Angkor”
“We By no means Went Away”
“The Evening”
“The Dreamers”
“Sargasso Sea”
“California”
“Time’s Arrow”
