BONUS EPISODE! Daniel Hunt, Ladytron

The James McMahon Music Podcast

The audio isn’t great on this episode, and so, as is the case when I record an episode and the sound quality isn’t what I’d hope it to be, I’ve published it as a bonus episode.
There are moment where it sounds a bit like Daniel Hunt, principal songwriter and producer of Liverpool’s longstanding electronic wonders Ladytron, is calling into talkSPORT after seeing his preferred football team succumb to a heavy defeat. In fact, I almost consigned the episode to the bin. But I think what Daniel has to say – about Brazilian politics, the country where he now calls home; the world’s creeping dystopia; the direction of the UK’s Labour Party – is so interesting, it’s worth persevering with a little crackle and hum.
Ladytron’s seventh studio album, their first in four years, was released on Cooking Vinyl last week. That record is called Time’s Arrow, and it’s one of the first real great albums I’ve heard this year. We get into the writing and release of that record too, and the band’s coming tour, and where Daniel thinks Ladytron find themselves in 2023. For everything I said about the audio, I really like this episode, even if quite often I don’t agree with everything that Daniel has to say. But isn’t that the point?
It’s certainly the point of this podcast. Come for the music, stay for the ideas, agree, disagree, it doesn’t really matter, as long as conversations are had and music is enjoyed.

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