Album review: La Roux
LA ROUX: LA ROUX *** POLYDOR, £12.72
SNAPPING at the heels of Little Boots, La Roux, aka Brixton synth kid Elly Jackson, has already made an impression on the charts – and the Glastonbury festival – with the tinny but catchy In For The Kill. Her debut album is simply more of the same reedy electro pop about love, relationships and all that, with marginally more underground club cachet than Little Boots' brazen chart pop. On Cover My Eyes, she does agonising heartache pretty well, but overall her thin, shrill voice is off-putting, as if she has purposefully settled on a key uncomfortably high for her.
Email to a friend
Print this page- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Man dies after Crags plunge
- Hearts celebrate as Hibs lick their wounds - Full Scottish Cup round up
- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish Cup final: The talk of the toon are the Hearts in maroon
- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- The Rumour Mill: Tuesday’s football news and gossip
- The Rumour Mill: Monday’s football news and gossip
- Paulo Sergio left in limbo as Vladimir Romanov flies out before party
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Tuesday 22 May 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 8 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 9 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 12 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: North east
