In pop folklore, bands were allowed three LPs to become themselves, yet the fabled third album is an increasing rarity in this low attention span epoch.

So it comes as a bit of a rare treat to find that Liverpool-based boy / girl four-piece Ladytron have reached this mythical milestone with ‘Witching Hour’, their best album yet, and one that still fizzes and sparks with the band’s own idiosyncratic charms.

Yet ‘Witching Hour’ is an album that reaches further than it’s predecessors; warm and dense, there is a feeling of susceptible magic wrapped within it’s thirteen tracks