Ladytron - Witching Hour
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Artist: LadytronEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- High Rise
- Destroy Everything You Touch
- International Dateline
- Soft Power
- CMYK
- amTV
- Sugar
- Fighting In Built Up Areas
- The Last One Standing
- Weekend
- Beauty*2
- White Light Generator
- All The Way
Free Music Notes for Witching Hour
Free Music Review: BEST album of the DECADE!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
From start to finish this album is CLASS!!! Whenever I'm listening to this album I get lost in it's beauty, it's sooo haunting sooo icy, soooo wintery, soooo dense... yet it's got a heart and it feels warm at times! At times it's really rocking, other times it's just sooo soft and mellow it's an album full of contradictions and that's why it's soooo great!!!
01. High Rise - 9.75/10 - What a grand-rocking start to such a great album! Whenever I'm listening to this song I feel like I'm driving somewhere really fast... It's a song that really builds a landscape! Helen sings "we're on the same high you and I" that says it all I guess!
02. Destroy Everything You Touch - 9.65/10 - The POP song of this album and the obvious single! It's got a killer chorus, one that sticks to your mind yet it's not one that you get fed up of easily... While High Rise gives a rocking start to the album Destroy is synth drenched, with references to 90's euro-pop and top notch stop-start dynamics... fantastic stuff!
03. International Dateline - 10/10 - My favourite song on the album... It's got such a dampy start and it feels so cold, tearful and terrifying when Helen softly speaks "Woke up in the evening, To the sound of the screaming, Through walls that were bleeding, All over me"... The song progresses slowly, and Helen's voice sends shivers to my spines when she sings "let's end it here, let's leave it here" until the song almost gets rocking. Although it's such a dark song, the groovy drummings makes this song dancible and that's why it takes full marks!
04. AMTV - 8.7/10 - One of the "weaker" songs on the album, which is still great but by the standards of this album, it's one of my least favourites. The song is definitely a highlight on the album because of Mira's singing otherwise it's pretty average stuff
05. SUGAR - 9/10 - Probably the most rocking song of the album... Ladytron here pick guitars and rock out for nearly 3 minutes. It's such a cute song and I love it, the only downfall of it is that it's a bit repetitive, but the driving guitars make the song a wonderful experiment for the band!
06. SOFT POWER - 9.5/10 - This is the centre-piece and another masterpiece of THE WITCHING HOUR! Here is where Ladytron gets really weird. The synths and Helen's ghostly voice are sooo haunting and creepy, Soft Power almost screams "goth"... It's definitely the darkest song on this album as Helen sings "daylight is the enemy". There's also a strange countermelody which helps making this the densest song they've ever done!
07. CMYK - 8.8/10 - The shortest song on the album. Clocks just after 1 minute but it's a beautiful haunting instrumental interlude!
08. FIGHTING IN BUILT UP AREAS - 9.5/10 - This might be the harshest song on the album. It's somewhere between industrial dance and synth rock. It's the counterpart to Soft Power and it's probably the most awkward song in here that takes a couple of listens to get into but once you get into it u can almost dance with it despite being in my opinion the second densiest song on the album! This song is sung by Mira and it's in Bulgarian, which helps in giving it a kind of a cold harsh Eastern European feel.
09. Last One Standing - 9.7 - After 3 really dark and dense songs Ladytron return to their sweet side with such a lovely song. It's the first I fell in love with after Destroy and Sugar! It also brings memories of Playgirl as it's one of the softer songs on Witching Hour. Last One Standing takes bonus points in my opinion because of it's contrasts. It's another song drenched in icy synchs yet the chiming bells bring a kind of warm feeling to this song! I wished it was longer than it's 3 minutes as it passes by so fast unfortunately!
10. Weekend - 9.8/10 It's a song that boasts a terrific, motorik style rhythm, and returns Ladytron to their rocking sounds featured before on High Rise and Sugar. Although it's not as "hard", this one is my favourite of the rock songs. Lyrically it's about a girl who, goes to work, doesn't enjoy her life and attaches herself with the material world kind of, and becomes a number just like everyone else and in the end Helen sings "You took the end, out of weekend", it's like she's saying don't take life so seriouly and enjoy it while u can... excellent stuff!
11. Beauty 2 - 9.9/10 - My 2nd favourite. This song is so fragile and vulnerable. Probably the slowest song on the album. It's kind of dreamy as well yet in the middle of this there's a dance fueled breakdown and from there the song changes completely. In the 2nd part of the song Helen's voice shows more emotions and from there the song really excells. The final 30 seconds of the song are so breezy whith the synths creating a spacy atmospheric feel to the song! You can't help bust getting lost with this song!
12. WHITE LIGHT GENERATION - 9.4 - Helen here gives a more laid back effort. While not being such a highlight song it's a pretty dream-pop, lushy tune and could as well serve the band as a new direction for future albums.
13. ALL THE WAY... - 9.8 - Perfect closer! It's probably the coldest song in here. It feels as if snow is actually falling on you and freezing your body as Helen sings "they heard the sound of the snow falling". It's a perfect-ambient farewell to such an album and it doesn't stop there... There's a hidden track that ends the whole witching hour in perfect silence! What a way to finish a surprisingly glorious hour in your life!
Witching Hour Poster
SERENELY BEAUTIFUL AT TIMES AND NOISY AND DISTURBING AT OTHERS; LIKE ALL THE BEST RECORDS SHOULD BE. The Electro-Clash pioneers return with their stunning new album! In pop folklore, bands were allowed three LPs to become themselves, yet the fabled third album is an increasing rarity in this low-attention span era. It comes as a rare treat to find that Liverpool-based boy / girl four-piece Ladytron have reached this mythical milestone with 'Witching Hour,? their best album yet, and one that fizzes and sparks with the band's own idiosyncratic charms.'Witching Hour' is an album that reaches further than its predecessors: warm and dense, there is a feeling of susceptible magic wrapped within its thirteen tracks. Ladytron just fulfilled their potential. Prepare to fall in love with them all over again.
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