Ladytron

Although Ladytron emerged in parallel with the Y2K electroclash movement, the group are inclined toward retro-leaning ’80s synth-pop, highlighted by the dance-floor anthem “Playgirl” and the dark “Seventeen.” Naming themselves after a Roxy Music song, the quartet formed in 1999, when Liverpool-based producers and DJs Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu teamed up with vocalists/keyboardists Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo.

Ladytron released a series of EPs in the lead-up to their 2001 debut album, 604, and its shadowy follow-up, Light & Magic.

Their next LP, Witching Hour, featuring the gothic disco hit “Destroy Everything You Touch,” boasted a darker, beat-heavy sound that would align with and inform the group’s notable remixes for Nine Inch Nails and Goldfrapp and cowrites with Christina Aguilera.