November 21, 2025 — The beloved UK electronic pop band Ladytron is one of the most
influential and iconic groups of the last 25 years. After celebrating the 20th anniversary of their
2005 album, Witching Hour, Ladytron breaks their silence and announces their eighth studio
album, Paradises, due out on March 20th via Nettwerk.
After over two decades of carving new sonic territory and becoming one of the touchstone artists
of the 2000s, Helen Marnie, Daniel Hunt, and Mia Arroyo of Ladytron arrive reinvigorated on
their much-anticipated eighth studio album, Paradises, slated for release on March 20th, 2026,
via Nettwerk – the label that brought you Velocifero (2008) and Gravity the Seducer (2011).
Blazing with colour, Paradises is Ladytron at their most sleek, most romantic, most urgent, and
most psychic – a luminescent collage of tech primitivism, high-priestess disco, spectral soul, and
balearic noir. It’s a beach at the end of the world, filled with premonitions, prayers, and
incantations.
Produced by Daniel Hunt and mixed by long-time collaborator Jim Abbiss (Grammy winner for
Adele’s debut), the expansive 16-track album marks Ladytron’s most dance-oriented record since
Light & Magic, and their most significant leap since Witching Hour. Abbiss remarked, “When I
heard the demos for Paradises, I was truly blown away. The variety in songwriting and
arrangements reminded me of Witching Hour, but with its own unique atmosphere, sonics, and
attitude.” Helen Marnie added, “It was like a homecoming. We just fit. His enthusiasm is
contagious, and having that in the room really creates a kind of magic.”
Written and recorded over five months from late 2023, with final touches completed in early 2025,
genre-defying Paradises took shape across Liverpool, São Paulo, Montrose, Dalston, and was
completed at Dean Street Studios in Soho, London, where Tony Visconti famously recorded
Bowie’s Scary Monsters.
Mira Aroyo adds, “I wanted to write from that perspective and channel that fun feeling of first
working together back in the late ’90s when we had nothing to lose.” From the first Liverpool
sessions, it was clear the new album was something special. “Feeling at ease brings the best out
of us, and there was a buzz in the studio about the material that felt new,” said Marnie.
Paradises was written from scratch in an intense, rapid process. “Every time I went into the studio,
I’d come out after an hour with a new track,” said Hunt. “The key motivation was fun. Everything
became fun again.”
“There’s an itch we never scratched,” he added, “which is that despite our origins in the DJ world,
we never actually made a ‘disco’ record. Albeit, ‘disco’ in our context has a somewhat different
meaning.”
Threads of dance music, such as proto-house, early electro, and disco, have woven through all
their albums, and just like other facets of the group, come in and out of focus and prominence
across their body of work. On Paradises, one unmistakable characteristic is that side of Ladytron
coming to the fore, and creating a canvas for the formation of something new.
