Ladytron

Mezzanine

Massive Attack ·1998

"I've chosen Mezzanine by Massive Attack. It was a big part in my life when I was at university. I think that's a lot to do with Elizabeth Fraser singing on it."

A Banda Tropicalista do Duprat

Rogério Duprat ·1968

"He was a Brazilian composer, arranger, and he's kind of like the unsung sound of Tropicalia. All those amazing arrangements, all these incredible strings, all the kind of electronic experimentation, everything. It was him."

Trans

Neil Young ·1982

"I was completely obsessed with Neil Young growing up. Learned to play guitar, learned kind of his songs. And then I came across this and it was just completely otherworldly. It's his electronic record which he made because he had an autistic son and he wanted to communicate with him."

Clube da Esquina

Milton Nascimento ·1972

"I've met Milton Nascimento. He was meditating on a rock... It sounds preposterous, but he was meditating on a rock."

Le mystere des voix bulgares, vol. 3

Le Mystère des voix bulgares ·1990

"When I was a kid in Bulgaria, there was a whole lot of folk music, you know, communist country sort of celebrating sort of national stuff and I was really averse to it. Apart from the Bulgarian throat singers who recorded with Kate Bush, this was a record that put out. So this is kind of how they became famous and then Kate Bush kind of, you know, approached them and started recording with them."

Ultraviolence

Lana Del Rey ·2014

"I like how she's navigated herself in the pop industry and she doesn't really submit to the machine whilst she's still like this epic giant pop star. This album is one of my favorites of hers."

Profana

Gal Costa ·1984

"I picked out this record particularly. It was like a sort of mid late '80s album. She was obviously came to prominence in the 60s, but it's got a song called Faka Profana, which was written by Kaitana Velos, like a lot of her earlier stuff."

Light & Magic

Ladytron ·2002

"A lot of people don't know, but it was recorded here in LA. Well, it was like basically a pool house, wasn't it? The studio was a pool house. We would go out and sit by the pool and sun ourselves and then go back and get back to work."