“It feels like the snowball is getting bigger and bigger all the time,” says Mira Aroyo, one quarter of four-piece band, Ladytron, of their gradual, yet overwhelming, success.

And she’s right. Since debuting in 2001, Ladytron has slowly, but surely, grown to become one of the world’s coolest music outfits and pioneers in electronica.

Yet, it wasn’t always bright lights and stage shows. As Aroyo reveals, the progression was far more oganic. “We kind of had a bedroom set-up and we were more into recording,” Aroyo tells SX.

But by the time we had recorded a couple of albums, it basically became more of a professional thing.”

Of course, it became much, much more. Following 2002’s Light & Magic, which spawned the hit single ‘Seventeen’, Ladytron released The Witching Hour in 2005 to acclaim, garnering them worldwide attention.

Now, Ladytron are making their way to Australia, playing two shows at The Metro Theatre on September 29-30, to mark the launch of their fourth album, Velocifero.

This new work, Aroyo says, is different from the others, a point that The Sydney Morning Herald recently echoed: “[Velocifero is] a release that is still light years ahead of many of today’s electronic efforts”.

As with most pioneers: expect the unexpected.

Ladytron plays on Tuesday, September 30 at The Metro Theatre, 624 George St, Sydney. Tix $50 from metrotheatre.com.au

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