Velocifero received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic

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, which assigns a normalised

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 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average

Weighted mean

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 score of 73, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Singles

"Ghosts" was released as the album's lead single on 12 May 2008. It reached number 106 on the UK Singles Chart

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. The song was included on the soundtrack to the video games Need for Speed: Undercover

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, The Sims 2: Apartment Life

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(Apartment Life featured the song as an instrumental version; both in 2008) The Sims 3

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(2009) and LittleBigPlanet 2

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(2011), as well as on the soundtrack to the 2009 slasher film Sorority Row

Sorority Row

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. The track was also used in the TV advert for the 2010 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

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. A remix of "Ghosts" by New York alternative rap

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 collective Blestenation was released as a free download on 22 August 2008 by RCRD LBL

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.
"Runaway" was released as the album's second single on 22 September 2008. It was featured in the 2008 video game FIFA 09.

"Tomorrow" was released as the album's third and final single on 2 March 2009.

Track listing

All songs written by Ladytron, except where noted.

1. "Black Cat" – 5:09
2. "Ghosts" – 4:43
3. "I'm Not Scared" – 3:58
4. "Runaway" – 4:50
5. "Season of Illusions" – 4:02
6. "Burning Up" – 4:08
7. "Kletva" (Kiril Marichkov
   Kiril Marichkov
   Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...
   
   ) – 2:43
8. "They Gave You a Heart, They Gave You a Name" – 3:29
9. "Predict the Day" – 4:25
10. "The Lovers" – 2:39
11. "Deep Blue" – 5:03
12. "Tomorrow" – 3:36
13. "Versus" – 5:44

Japanese bonus tracks

14. "Ghosts" (Candie Hank Mix) – 5:06
15. "Ghosts" (Modwheelmood
    Modwheelmood
    Modwheelmood is an Electronic-Alternative band from Los Angeles, California formed by Alessandro Cortini and former Abandoned Pools guitarist Pelle Hillström in 1998.-History:Modwheelmood formed in 1998, initially as a project entitled...
    
     Mix) – 4:29 (iTunes only)

Velocifero (Remixed & Rare)

1. "Ghosts" (Toxic Avenger Remix) – 3:37
2. "Tomorrow" (Apparat
   Apparat (musician)
   Apparat is a German electronic musician living in Berlin and was previously a co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats".In 2004, he appeared at...
   
    Remix) – 5:39
3. "Runaway" (James Zabiela
   James Zabiela
   James Zabiela is a DJ and producer from Southampton in the United Kingdom. In his early years his signature style was a fusion of Breakbeat and House music, more recently however, he is regarded as a Tech House DJ although his use of Breakbeat music is still key to the more flashy parts of his sets...
   
   's Red Eye Remix) – 8:59
4. "Predict the Day" (Grey Ghost Remix) – 6:05
5. "Runaway" (ADULT. Remix) – 5:02
6. "Tomorrow" (Vector Lovers
   Vector Lovers
   Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music and electro genres...
   
    Lucky Remix) – 6:53
7. "Ghosts" (Modwheelmood Remix) – 4:28
8. "Tomorrow" (Jim Abbiss
   Jim Abbiss
   Jim Abbiss is a British music producer, best known for his work on records including Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize winning debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Ladytron's Witching Hour, Sneaker Pimps' debut Becoming X, Editors' debut The Back Room, Kasabian's...
   
    Radio Remix) – 3:34
9. "Versus" (Kindle Remix) – 4:38
10. "Tomorrow" (port-royal
    Port-Royal (band)
    port-royal is a Genoa, Italy-based electronica and post-rock band formed in the year 2000 by Attilio Bruzzone and Ettore Di Roberto...
    
     Remix) – 3:36
11. "Runaway" (Brendan Long Remix) – 5:17
12. "Tomorrow" (Dirty Vegas
    Dirty Vegas
    Dirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals...
    
     Club Remix) – 9:22
13. "Runaway" (Ashtar Command
    Ashtar Command (band)
    Ashtar Command is the name of an indie music band currently composed of Chris Holmes and Brian Liesegang...
    
     Remix) – 4:40

Personnel

• Ladytron – production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Daniel Hunt
  Daniel Hunt
  Daniel Hunt is the founder member, and principal songwriter/producer of the band Ladytron. He is a keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer. He also DJ's around the world both solo and with other band members...
  
   – additional vocals
  Singing
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   (track 13)
• Assume Vivid Astro Focus
  Assume Vivid Astro Focus
  assume vivid astro focus is both an alias of Brazilian-born New York-based artist Eli Sudbrack, and the name of an international group of visual and performance artists, with French multimedia artist Christophe Hamaide-Pierson one of the main collaborators...
  
   – design
  Graphic design
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• Javier Benitez – additional musician
• Alessandro Cortini
  Alessandro Cortini
  Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician best known for touring and recording with the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from 2004 to 2008. Currently, Cortini is also the frontman for the Los Angeles based electronic-alternative band SONOIO. In addition, he was a touring member of The...
  
   – additional production
• Stéphane Gallois – photography
  Photography
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• Alex Hasson – assistant engineering
  Audio engineering
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• Michael Patterson
  Michael Patterson (producer)
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   – mixing
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• Pipa – design
• Erwan "Eq" Quinio – engineering
• Peter Salmang – additional musician
• Slic – drums
  Drum kit
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• Somekong – additional musician
• Vicarious Bliss
  Vicarious Bliss
  Vicarious Bliss is an electro artist signed to Ed Banger Records, known primarily for his "Theme from Vicarious Bliss" and several remixes. He collaborated with Ladytron on their 4th studio album, Velocifero. Additionally, he produced the debut album by I Love UFO. Vicarious Bliss is also featured...
  
   – additional production
• Daniel Woodward – engineering
• Semay Wu – cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	75
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	131
US Top Electronic Albums	3
US Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	3

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format
Sweden	19 May 2008	Playground Music Scandinavia Playground Music Scandinavia Playground Music Scandinavia AB is a Scandinavian based record label and is currently owned by Jonas Sjöström....	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
Italy		Nettwerk Nettwerk The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville, and Hamburg...
United Kingdom
Australia	20 May 2008	Shock Shock Records Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...
Sweden	28 May 2008	Playground Music Scandinavia	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
Germany	30 May 2008	Major Major Records Major Records is a music label from Hamburg, Germany, focussing on electronic pop music. Currently, their most popular artists include Ladytron, IAMX, X-Perience and Boytronic.- History:...	CD, LP LP record The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... , digital download
Australia	2 June 2008	Shock	CD
United Kingdom		Nettwerk
United States	3 June 2008		CD, LP
Italy	4 June 2008		CD
Japan		Sideout	CD, digital download
United States	28 September 2010	Nettwerk	Digital download
Velocifero (Remixed & Rare)
United Kingdom	6 April 2010	Nettwerk	Digital download
Australia	21 May 2010	Shock	CD, digital download
Germany		Major	Digital download
United States	1 June 2010	Nettwerk	CD
United Kingdom
United States	28 September 2010		Digital download