Ladytron announce new album, share “Kingdom Undersea”

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Ladytron have announced their eighth album, Paradises, which will be out March 20 via Nettwerk. The album was produced by the band’s Daniel Hunt with sessions in Liverpool, São Paulo, Montrose, Dalston, and London, with mixing duties handled by longtime collaborator Jim Abbiss.

While always an electronic band, Ladytron have made their most dancefloor-forward album with Paradises. “There’s an itch we never scratched,” Hunt says, “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.”

The first single from the album is “Kingdom Undersea,” which adds a little early-’90s baggy/madchester house to Ladytron’s icy sound. It’s also a duet between vocalist Helen Marnie and Hunt which hasn’t happened much in Ladytron’s career. It’s an awesome, moody banger, and you can watch the video, filmed in a video installation originally designed for the KLF, below.

Ladytron have a few UK dates lined up around Paradises‘ release, and those are listed below.

Paradises
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