Light & Magic by Ladytron

Light & Magic, the second album from Liverpool's Ladytron, followed 604 in 2002, with Mickey Petralia producing, Telstar putting it out in Britain and Emperor Norton handling America. Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo trade cool, deadpan vocals over banks of synthesizers from Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu, and the whole thing hums with the chrome-and-neon chill that got the electroclash tag pinned on it.

"Seventeen" turned up on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Party Monster, and "NuHorizons" had an earlier life as "Holiday 601", a B-side to the 2001 single "The Way That I Found You". The critics took notice: Rolling Stone put it among its 50 best albums of 2002, Muzik named it the year's best electropop album, and Drowned in Sound and NME both ranked it in their year-end lists.

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