Time's Arrow is the seventh studio album by English electronic band Ladytron, released on 20 January 2023 through Cooking Vinyl.

Singles

Time's Arrow was supported by three singles. The first single, "City of Angels" was released on 14 October 2022. It was accompanied by a music video directed by Manuel Nogueira that was released on 26 October. "Misery Remember Me" was the second single and was released on 11 November 2022. The third single, "Faces" was released on 5 December 2022, and accompanied by a music video released on 17 January 2023.

Critical reception

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the album a score of 78 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The music review website Pitchfork gave Time's Arrow a rating of 6.9 and described it as "capturing the passage of time in effervescent synths and impressionistic lyrics." Thomas Frenken of Electro Zombies gave the album 3.4 stars out of 5 in a 25 January 2023 review.

Track listing

Time's Arrow track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."City of Angels"Daniel Hunt4:38
2."Faces"HuntHelen Marnie4:40
3."Misery Remember Me"MarnieJonathan Daniel Scott4:14
4."Flight from Angkor"Mira AroyoVice Cooler4:07
5."We Never Went Away"Hunt3:57
6."The Night"HuntMarnieScott4:17
7."The Dreamers"HuntMarnieScott3:40
8."Sargasso Sea"HuntMarnie3:30
9."California"MarnieScott4:08
10."Time's Arrow"AroyoCooler4:00
Total length:41:16

Charts

Chart performance for Time's Arrow
Chart (2023)Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)6
UK Albums (OCC)67
UK Independent Albums (OCC)4