Liverpool UK group\u00a0Ladytron\u00a0are celebrating the 20th anniversary of what many consider their definitive album, 2002\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Light&Magic\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To commemorate, the group have assembled unseen archive material from the time, including a teaser reel<\/a>, a short film of them recording the album in Los Angeles<\/a>, and an unreleased music video for the title track<\/a>, shot on slide film, which had lay incomplete for two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, the band release\u00a0a new short performance film\u00a0for the standout album track\u00a0True Mathematics<\/em>,\u00a0shot at the 2002\u00a0\u2018Light&Magic\u2019\u00a0tour shows in London and Manchester and forgotten for 20 years. “True Mathematics” is one of several songs on the album that vocalist Mira Aroyo sang in her native Bulgarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We first started experimenting with Bulgarian on Commodore Rock off \u2018604,\u2019 because the language has such a different rhythm. We hadn’t planned on writing more songs in Bulgarian, but the instrumental for True Maths screamed out for something hard and staccato – kind of like The Normal’s Warm Leatherette. We pushed the sound of the language to be as percussive and metallic as possible, beyond the way it naturally is. Live, the song took on a life of its own – it became even harder, almost heavy metal. Also not many bands open their sets with a song in a foreign language, so it felt like a statement of intent. ”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>– Mira Aroyo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Added band member Daniel Hunt,\u00a0\u201cWe realized was there was little record of how the band was in the flesh at that moment, late 2002. Nobody had phones with cameras, let alone video. It was Ladytron at its most punk. There was a still a lot of confusion about what we were. Still is. Going through the archives we found these tapes that our UK label had shot in the first days of the tour, and had been long forgotten about. They capture a unique group when it was just hitting its stride, at the very beginning of a world tour for \u2018Light&Magic\u2019 that would last a whole year.\u201d<\/em> Watch the video clip via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n