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''Witching Hour'' is the third studio album by English electronic band Ladytron. It was released in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2005 by Island Records and on 4 October 2005 in Europe by Universal Music Group and United States by Rykodisc. The album was promoted by two singles: "Sugar" and "Destroy Everything You Touch". ''Witching Hour'' received mostly positive reviews and reached number 81 on UK Albums Chart. NME included this album at number 48 on their "Albums and Tracks of the Year" for 2005 list. In 2015, it featured on NME's list "50 Still-Awesome Albums That Made 2005 a Dynamite Year For Music". ==Production== Ladytron began working on demos for ''Witching Hour'' immediately after concluding ''Light & Magic tour'' with a homecoming gig in Liverpool in September 2003, where they were supported by Franz Ferdinand. Within a few months, they had mapped out the entire record.〔 By the time they were ready to start recording in April 2004, their UK label Telstar Records had gone into administration.〔 Their US label, Emperor Norton, also had problems: the company was purchased by Rykodisc in 2004 and was then shut down later that year, with Rykodisc inheriting its back-catalogue. The band announced on 7 December 2004 that they signed to Island Records. By June 2004, the album was ready, except mixed.〔 This album was recorded in 2004 at Elevator Studios (Liverpool, Merseyside) and it was produced by Ladytron and Jim Abbiss. They also had two collaborators: Pop Levi played bass and Keith York played drums. In a 2005 interview for XLR8R, Daniel Hunt shared some information about the equipment used on ''Witching Hour'': "most of the bassy riffs are a Roland SH-2 or a Korg MS-20. Reuben especially likes sticking his Korg MS-10 through Electro Harmonix boxes and fattening them up. For the poly stuff, we used Farfisa organs and Solina string machines–basically the same stuff we've used all along, but we probably treated it a bit rougher. We also used a load of the producer's toys as well–Reuben's got an ARP 2600, which you can sit around with for a full day trying to get something useful out of and fail, and the next day you switch it on and it'll automatically make something genius. I've got this really shit, five-pound, sub-Casio keyboard that I got off this trader; the chords for 'International Dateline' were written on that. It's good to have that kind of gear. The shit toys can end up being quite inspirational".〔 Regarding their approach as producers, he also added: "our approach goes back to the whole Eno/Bowie ''Low'' thing – the treatments are as important as the synths. We like to confuse synths and guitars quite a lot–there are some things people hear they assume is a guitar that's a synth and vice versa. On the last album, there were guitars all over 'Cease2xist' and a few of the other songs, but they were treated in a way that people didn't recognize them".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Witching Hour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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