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==Music style== Ladytron have described their sound as "electronic pop",<ref name="dis" /> with music journalists similarly describing their sound as [[electropop]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ladytron β Best of 00β10 |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/best-of-00-10-mw0002109337 |last=Phares |first=Heather |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Steuer|first=Eric|date=2007-05-09|title=Ladytron DJ Tour + MP3|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2007/05/ladytron-dj-tou/|access-date=2020-05-01|issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Classic album: Daniel Hunt on Ladytron's Velocifero |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/classic-album-daniel-hunt-on-ladytrons-velocifero |date=2 January 2019 |website=[[MusicRadar]] |access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref> They focused on a balance between pop structures and experimental sounds. Their sound has also been described as [[synth-pop]],<ref name="mtv-12">{{Cite web |title=Ladytron ride the new New Wave |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1441377/ladytron-ride-the-new-new-wave/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016014756/http://www.mtv.com/news/1441377/ladytron-ride-the-new-new-wave/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2017 |last=Levy |first=Doug |date=7 March 2001 |publisher=[[MTV]] |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ladytron's New Album: Gravity the Seducer |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/42071-ladytrons-new-album-gravity-the-seducer/ |last=Breihan |first=Tom |date=31 March 2011 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nettwerk will release the synthpop group's next album in September |url=https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=14115 |website=[[Resident Advisor]] |access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> [[electronic rock]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who's Who at Bonnaroo: Ladytron |url=https://consequence.net/2008/06/whos-who-at-bonnaroo-ladytron/ |last=Young |first=Alex |date=4 June 2008 |website=[[Consequence of Sound]] |access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hanging with... Ladytron |url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/07/18/ladytron/ |last=Sweeney |first=Emily |date=18 July 2008 |website=[[The Boston Globe]] |access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DNA Mutation! |url=https://www.laweekly.com/dna-mutation/ |last=Payne |first=John |date=2 August 2006 |website=[[LA Weekly]] |access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref> [[post-punk revival]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Strauss|first=Neil|date=2002-10-24|title=THE POP LIFE; Punk Meets Disco, Again|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/24/arts/the-pop-life-punk-meets-disco-again.html|access-date=2020-05-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[New wave music|new wave]],<ref name="mtv-12" /> [[shoegaze]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ladytron β Ladytron {{!}} Albums |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/ladytron-ladytron |date=15 February 2019 |website=musicOMH |access-date=15 February 2019}}</ref> [[Witch house (genre)|witch house]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Midnight Cafe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0X81DgAAQBAJ&q=witch+house+ladytron&pg=PT188 |date=24 February 2017 |publisher=Xiphias Press |access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref> and [[art pop]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ladytron β "The Animals" |url=https://www.spin.com/2018/03/ladytron-the-animals-stream/ |last=Gordon |first=Arielle |date=1 March 2018 |website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |access-date=31 January 2019}}</ref> While some writers have labeled Ladytron as an [[electroclash]] act,<ref>{{Cite web |title=10 Essential Electroclash Tracks |url=https://www.treblezine.com/10-essential-electroclash-tracks/ |last1=Terich |first1=Jeff |last2=Blyweiss |first2=Adam |date=18 May 2018 |website=Treble |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="nettskinny" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ladytron Interview 2008 |url=http://portable-infinite.blogspot.com/2008/06/ladytron-interview-2008.html |last=Laurence |first=Alexander |date=19 June 2008 |website=The Portable Infinite blog |access-date=13 June 2011}}</ref> others have claimed that they are not entirely electroclash<ref>{{cite web | last=Juzwiak | first=Richard Moroder |url = http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/electroclash-in-limousines-we-have-sexin-nyc-we-have-clash.htm| title =Electroclash: In Limousines We Have Sex/In NYC We Have Clash β Article | work= [[Stylus Magazine]] | date = 2002-09-30 | access-date = 2016-08-11| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101202035511/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/electroclash-in-limousines-we-have-sexin-nyc-we-have-clash.htm| archive-date= 2 December 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> and Ladytron members have also rejected the term, with Daniel Hunt and Helen Marnie commenting: {{bquote|text=We felt being compared to the day-glo trash-aesthetic of electroclash didn't make any sense. We were wise enough to know that being positioned by the press at the forefront of it, despite our protestations, would mean we bore the brunt of the backlash when it inevitably came. However, that happened anyway, and we survived.<ref name="nettskinny" />|author=Daniel Hunt}} {{bquote|text=We were always lumped in with bands we sounded nothing like and often didn't have much in common with. That was what made us uncomfortable. For that reason, we just tried to avoid any connection with the term. Our sound is never reactionary to outside elements, it's always natural and down to experiences.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ROCKSUCKER: Interview: Ladytron |url=http://jonnyabrams.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-ladytron.html |date=19 August 2011 |publisher=Jonnyabrams.blogspot.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014010348/http://jonnyabrams.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-ladytron.html |archive-date=14 October 2016 |access-date=14 December 2012}}</ref>|author=Helen Marnie}} Reuben Wu said about the process of making a new Ladytron album: {{bquote|text=We start writing individually. We've never really lived in the same city before. We've always been geographically apart. {{omission}} It's always been first as individuals, and then reviewing everything together, and then working on each other's songs. That's how we've always worked. And it goes well with how we make music. We do get together down the line and in the studio when we start fleshing out the tracks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview: Ladytron's Reuben Wu β Shanghai β Shanghai Blogs Blog β City Weekend Guide |url=http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/shanghais-nightlife/interview-ladytrons-reuben-wu/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030190416/http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/shanghais-nightlife/interview-ladytrons-reuben-wu/ |archive-date=30 October 2013 |access-date=31 March 2013}}</ref>}}
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