La Roux Album: “La Roux”

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.

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 since I downloaded it. Catchy, memorable, easy to sing along to. Love listening to this album, especially Tigerlilly, Bulletproof, and In for the Kill.

I purchased this on a recent trip to the UK, because I heard and loved Bulletproof, a single that hit #1 there. In my opinion, 9 of the 12 tracks are five-star standouts, and Tigerlily is epic. It stalks me. I can't get it out of my head.

The entire album is artistically brilliant synthpop. My least favorite track, Armour Love, is still very nice, but it reminds me of some TV commercial from the 70s, so that's somewhat distracting. I have been listening to La Roux nonstop for the last two weeks and I LOVE IT. This is probably my favorite album since Upstairs at Eric's.

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 Its now outdated to put out a record album, much less by one.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.

Am totally hooked on this fantastic synth-pop album - the songs sound oddly familiar and yet brand new... It's progressive in a throwback-to-the-80s kind of way.

Frontwoman Elly Jackson croons in her lilting falsetto like some space-age oddity, which works amazingly well in the opening track 'In for the Kill'. Other gems like single 'Bulletproof', 'Quicksand' and 'I'm Not Your Toy' keep the party spirit up. Not a single dud track in this album.

This is what pop music should be - stock-full of irresistible hooks and beats, fun and not taking itself too seriously. They should collaborate with other 80s synth-pop giants like Pet Shop Boys, Human League or Erasure, like what contender Little Boots did in her duet with Philip Oakey off her debut "Hands", another delicious electro-synth offering.