Ladytron Release New Single “Misery Remember Me”
Announce West Coast U.S. Tour Dates for Spring 2023 On Sale Today 1 PM ET
“Misery Remember Me” Available Today On All Streaming Platforms
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** New Album – TIME’S ARROW – Out January 20 on Cooking Vinyl **
Follows First Single + Music Video “City of Angels”
Liverpool synth quartet Ladytron release “Misery Remember Me,” the second single from their highly anticipated album Time’s Arrow, and announces a string of west coast U.S. tour dates this spring.
“Misery Remember Me” is an encapsulation of the themes that inspired and makeup Time’s Arrow at large – a sense of optimism and hope to overcome dystopia.
“Misery Remember Me” was created as an ode to the human spirit against all odds. “We can try and try, but we’ll never escape who or what we are. And with that realization, we must embrace the now, but always allow ourselves to dream. “Misery Remember Me” encapsulates this ethos,” says Helen of the song’s creation.
In Spring 2023, Ladytron take the stage in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco in support of Time’s Arrow. These will follow a run of previously-announced UK dates in March 2023 in Glasgow, Liverpool, and London. More dates will be announced soon. Tickets for Ladytron’s west coast U.S. shows will go on sale today at 1 pm ET.
“Misery Remember Me” follows the release of the first single from Time’s Arrow, “City of Angels” (released on October 14), and its accompanying music video, a haunting thriller starring Bianca Comparato of Netflix sci-fi drama 3%. “City of Angels” garnered media praise upon its release, from SPIN, and Flood who described it as “an optimistic, dynamic electronic track with rich, industrial textures and utopian, shoegaze melodies,” BrooklynVegan said that “City of Angels” is the Ladytron you know and love, with motorik rhythms and glacial synths backing Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo’s icy vocals,” and Cultr observing “Guided by its interstellar soundscapes, hypnotic analog synths, and heavenly chimes, “City Of Angels” is an auditory phenomenon that takes listeners on a reality-bending adventure.” While further publications like The Wild Is Calling said, “the single is a trippy electro psych delight, it updates a 60s era composition with modern tone and electro flare.” Amplify Music Magazine noted, “Modulating melodies, misty vocal layers, and a generous retrofuturistic pop vibe define this single as an era-defying one.”
Full Tracklist for Time’s Arrow
City of Angels
Faces
Misery Remember Me
Flight From Angkor
We Never Went Away
The Night
The Dreamers
Sargasso Sea
California
Time’s Arrow
ABOUT LADYTRON
Ladytron are:
Daniel Hunt
Helen Marnie
Mira Aroyo
Reuben Wu
Forming in Liverpool in the late 90s and taking their name from the gloriously blank Roxy Music track, Ladytron’s debut album 604 was released a year ahead of 2002’s Light&Magic with Witching Hour in 2005 – “a quantum leap record” said Pitchfork. The group was lauded as leaders of the new electro-pop and electroclash scenes then flourishing, and Light&Magic went on to be influential, for both independent and mainstream electronic-pop music which followed.
Next up, 2008’s Velocifero, before 2011’s more serene, dreamy Gravity the Seducer and the cue for a deserved break that lasted years longer than imagined. Along the way they wrote and produced for other artists, including Lush and Christina Aguilera. The group reconvened in 2019 for an album that Q Magazine called “near perfection”, with Mojo insisting that in “Dark times, Ladytron soundtrack them beautifully”. GQ described it as “Formidable machine music, full of urgency and menace.” While NPR posited that “Ladytron seems enraptured at the idea of change, and of new beginnings in the face of a possible fiery end”
