Ladytron

Ten years ago, DJs Reuben Wu Hunt and Daniel Hunt imagined a group titled after a Roxy Music song with the occasional vocal—why not?—in Bulgarian. Recruiting vocalists Mira Aroyo and Helen Marnie, they would become proponents of the kind of pop-robotic music that could only have come to pass on the strange and fertile cultural terrain of the ‘80s. Since then, the Liverpool quartet’s electro-pop-clash-rock has brilliantly adapted to changing times and sounds perfectly contemporary, despite its nods to the past.