La Roux |  | Artist: La Roux
Label: Cherrytree Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 607
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001338902
UPC: 602527183824
EAN: 0602527183824
ASIN: B002M2N9JI
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | In For The Kill | | • | Tigerlily | | • | Quicksand | | • | Bulletproof | | • | Colourless Colour | | • | I'm Not Your Toy | | • | Cover My Eyes | | • | As If By Magic | | • | Fascination | | • | Reflections Are Protection | | • | Armour Love | | • | Growing Pains |
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Album Description
Highly anticipated 2009 debut album from Elly Jackson (AKA La Roux), who has everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Daft Punk hailing her as a talent to watch. This self-titled album is a kaleidoscope of emotions, touching on everything from heartbreak to disappointment to invincibility: all in true spine tingling La Roux measures that create an instant resonance. Ranging from the high crystal-clean falsettos of Fascination to the brooding lulls of ballad Cover My Eyes (that features London Community Gospel Choir), the breadth of the album and La Roux s diversity is clear. For Elly and co-producer/ writer Ben Langmaid, La Roux has never been about producing disposable dance floor fodder. Since meeting four years ago the talented duo s goal was clear - they wanted to bring classic songwriting back into the clubs and charts, and with this album they've accomplished that and far more.
Album Description
U.S. pressing of this 2009 debut album from Elly Jackson (AKA La Roux), who has everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Daft Punk hailing her as a talent to watch. This self-titled album is a kaleidoscope of emotions, touching on everything from heartbreak to disappointment to invincibility: all in true spine tingling La Roux measures that create an instant resonance. Ranging from the high crystal-clean falsettos of `Fascination' to the brooding lulls of ballad `Cover My Eyes' (that features London Community Gospel Choir), the breadth of the album and La Roux's diversity is clear. For Elly and co-producer/ writer Ben Langmaid, La Roux has never been about producing disposable dancefloor fodder. Since meeting four years ago the talented duo's goal was clear - they wanted to bring classic songwriting back into the clubs and charts, and with this album they've accomplished that and far more.
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 Can't stop listening, extremely catchy! September 30, 2009
Kelly A. Crump
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I cannot stop listening to this album. I am crazy about La Roux! A friend told me to check out the track "Bulletproof" and I have been hooked since then. There are only a couple of tracks that I don't really listen to and that is very rare for me. Very heavy on the 80s instrumentals and Elly Jackson's voice is incredible. Probably my favorite song is "Going in for the Kill". I'm also very fond of "Colorless Color, "I'm not Your Toy", "Reflections are Protection" and of course "Bulletproof". I haven't found an album that I've liked this much in years. These are songs that I don't mind getting stuck in my head.
Amazing December 18, 2009
Jonathan Boggess (Charleston, WV)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
La Roux is simply amazing! The songs are soo catchy with the great lyrics and tunes. I simple can't get enough, there is not one song on the CD that I will skip when listening which is very rare these days. Very similar to an underground Lady Gaga, no she is much better than Gaga. I expect to hear much more from and about La Roux in the near future she is an extremely talented artist with such a beautiful voice. A must have CD!!
Finally, great music! October 7, 2009
Damon Devine (Los Angeles, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
One other reviewer said she hadn't heard an album she liked this much in years. I feel the same way! Someone sent me (ironically on my birthday) an email with La Roux's 'Bulletproof' video attached. I was blown away! I got the whole CD on import the same day (this was last August) and have not stopped playing it since!
I have always loved Yazoo (Yaz here in the states) and Eurythmics, and La Roux is somewhat similar (as far as being a synth-pop band with an amazing female singer). Some people can't handle there being absolutely no acoustics, but I have always been a huge fan of synth pop, so naturally this is a total thrill for me. We've been suffering SO LONG with such crap music all around us, that this CD is like rain on a dry, cracked desert!
There is a beautiful track called 'Armour Love' and another called 'Cover My Eyes' (I am not sure why I get the distinct feeling these two songs are being sung to another girl). There are also completely brilliant dance tracks like 'Bulletproof', 'Quicksand', 'In For The Kill' and the very underrated 'Fascination.' Do you know how rare it is to have a CD with almost all great tracks!?
Elly Jackson (the singer in La Roux) has at least three different voices and all of them are great! I totally recommend this album.
perfect!!!! October 30, 2009
Iggy (Pennsylvania United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Duffy came out sounding like she could have been from the 60's. La Roux sounds like she is direct from the 80's. A perfect blend of the Human League, OMD, and early Erasure, with the attitude of Pink thrown in to spice it up. The albm has remained in my listening rotation sinceit downloaded it. Catchy, memorable, easy to sing along to. Love listenng to this album, especially Tigerlilly, Bulletproof, and In for the Kill.
Revival dance music!!! February 3, 2010
Richard K. Kostoff (columbus, oh)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the most bouncy, fun and important record of this era. I thought In For The Kill was a long forgotten single from the early 1980s! Then came this full album, full of bouncy, retro modern electronica from a very promising new talent. Its as if Elly Jackson is single handedly reviving a lost genre-the pop single! Its now outdated to put out a record album, much less by one. Well, thankfully here it is!
Every song is good. If this was 1985, it would produce a chart clogging plethora of #1 singles-Quicksand, Bulletproof, Im Not Your Toy, Facination and As If By Magic. Here in the U.S.A., it will be largely forgotten, lost by our paranoia of British imports. If our now dead music industry would reinvent itself and discover new music, maybe radio(it was once used for something other than talk) could start playing tunes that get people singing along once more.
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