When they formed in Liverpool at the tail-end of the last century, the band named after a song by Roxy Music unwittingly found themselves at the forefront of the burgeoning electroclash movement, though their influences went deeper (Kraftwerk, Stereolab, the odd cover of Tweet and Missy Elliott). Ladytron’s eighth album follows a period of unexpected cultural resurgence: Two decades after its release, their 2002 single “Seventeen” went viral on TikTok, while the 2023 film Saltburn featured a needle drop of their 2005 single “Destroy Everything You Touch”. On Paradises, the band (Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt) trade the apocalyptic anxieties of their 2019 self-titled album and continue the bright escapism of 2023’s Time’s Arrow. The mood is breezy and Balearic on songs like “Kingdom Undersea”, whose dreamy synth stabs harken to Ibiza in the ’90s, though echoes of post-punk and New Wave keep things subtly sinister.