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August 7, 2008

New Ladytron Video - "Runaway"

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"Runaway" is a stylishly repetitious song. It makes sense Ladytron opted to give it a stylishly repetitious video. The director credits (Mike Sharpe & Barney Steele@Found Collective) and set design details (Music for Patterns) read like bylines for a fashion shoot. Really, the clip itself would work well as a high-gloss magazine spread. "Runaway" the song might not posses the sinister buzz of "Black Cat" and the video doesn't sport the expansive landscape of "Ghosts," but all of that said, it has its own hypnotic appeal.

You can listen to "Runaway" without the zebra stripes at MySpace.

Velocifero is out via Nettwerk. That video lives somewhere in this album art:

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Do they really expect us to worship art over music? Gimme shelter and gimme a break.

Posted by: mur profile link at 08/07/08 4:32 PM | Reply
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shit song. i think they're way too worried about how cool they look to write a decent melody.

Posted by: veep at 08/07/08 4:36 PM | Reply
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exactly, they wrote that song while they were having their toe nails painted.

Posted by: perusse in reply to veep's comment at 08/07/08 4:52 PM | Reply
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k

honey - the Zebra puked shitsters again.

Posted by: k profile link at 08/07/08 9:33 PM | Reply
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I think it works well as a video. But I wouldn't want to listen to this on it's own. Almost like an installation piece.

Posted by: Ghost at 08/08/08 12:58 AM | Reply
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this music makes me want to kill someone.

Posted by: RAMBO III at 08/08/08 11:04 AM | Reply
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I like Ladytron, but this song is a little limp. The video is very stylish, though.

Posted by: Johnnyboy at 08/08/08 4:14 PM | Reply
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But aside from all that, we have the simple fact that you thought of TV on the Radio when you heard the name Touch and Go Records.THAT was the only band you thought of? This means I can cross off literally dozens of key indie bands from the list of music that you listen to. You're probably one of those guys who's never even heard Slint.

Posted by: steve at 08/11/08 6:08 PM | Reply
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I meant to post that on the comments of another article. I have no idea how I managed to do that. Me am retard.

Posted by: steve in reply to steve's comment at 08/11/08 6:14 PM | Reply
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Ladytron makes very good music, this is also a good song, the video is nice, but I expected something more diferent. People who say bad things about ladytron, this song and this video, just don't understand ladytron, and probably worship Britney Spears.

Posted by: anonymous at 08/17/08 9:47 AM | Reply
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this video is really great, and could have been inspired in Ambar's look, an argentinian band who dressed similar, two years ago...
take a look... http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=06-mHa8WZbo

Posted by: Pini Lope at 08/21/08 5:07 PM | Reply
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