Witching Hour by Ladytron

Witching Hour, Ladytron's third album, came out on 3 October 2005, through Island Records around the world and Rykodisc in the US, and it finds the Liverpool band at their most shadowy and dense. Jim Abbiss produced, and the synthesizers of Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu come thick with fuzz and gloom, Marnie's cool, detached vocal floating over the top like smoke.

"Sugar", "Destroy Everything You Touch", "Weekend" and "Soft Power" went out as singles, with "Destroy Everything You Touch" the moody standout. It only reached 81 in the UK, but the reviews were mostly warm: Pitchfork ranked it 23rd among 2005's albums, NME put it at 48 on its year-end list, and a decade later NME still counted it among the records that made 2005 great.

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