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Ladytron share a fifth single ahead of their highly anticipated new album, Paradises. Balearic Noir “A Death in London”was the first song written for the LP, and to the band, it is the record’s soul – the track around which the rest of Paradises quickly coalesced. It is Ladytron at their witchy best.

The song, which the band claim was written on ‘Leonard Cohen’s Casio,’ feels like pagan folk on an 808, and shuffles seductively with a marimba groove to die for. A Ballardian love song. Art pop in sweat-soaked synthetic fibres; it’s like a Negroni enjoyed at the event horizon of a black hole sun. It is a psychic safari through a sinuous lost city, with the sun directly overhead – a dispatch from a sweltering, amorous wasteland; ‘A place where dreams go to die…. I’m glad you met me alive…’

The song features a ghostly noir video, again directed by the band’s Daniel Hunt.

“A Death in London” follows earworm “Caught in the Blink of an Eye,” the hypnotic “I Believe in You,” kinetic  “I See Red,” and ethereal duet “Kingdom Undersea,” which will all appear on the band’s much anticipated new album, Paradises, due out on March 20th via Nettwerk.

Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, Pitchfork and elsewhere have included the album in their list of most anticipated albums of 2026.