★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify When 2009 started it became clear that in the UK there were three main contenders to the pop crown; Little Boots - a pint-sized disco-pop bedroom queen, Florence and The Machine - the alternative, accepted frontrunner (review of her album Lungs next week) and then, La Roux who very little was known about apart from a heavy '80s synth sound, singer Elly Jackson's impressively strong quiff haircut, a single on Kitsune and well....
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Good Lord. One minute you're in an interview giving off-the-cuff answers in response to questions about female sexuality, the next you're being pilloried by all and sundry for being anti-feminist...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
As June rolls into July we are reaching the crux of the January hype fest. Little Boots has already dropped her poptastic album to positive reviews and soon Florence and her Machine will open her 'Lungs' on the British public. However both of those highly tipped girls have so far been eclipsed by one Ellie Jackson, the 23 year old girl from Brixton who (along with Ben Langmaid) goes under the name La Roux...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
I need another guilty pleasure like I need a hole in the head. And this in particular is now responsible for both, given the way some of these tunes are busily burrowing through my braincase. British duo La Roux (singer/keyboardist Elly Jackson and co-writer/co-producer Ben Langmaid) have done the impossible, and more to the point, improbable: they've made early-'80s-style electro-pop à la Heaven 17, Yazoo and Berlin both palatable and relevant again...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
2009 will be remembered as the year when women took over music. No longer confined to manufactured bubblegum or pseudo-soul starlets, the girls have staked their claim over the whole pop kingdom with a legion of synth-armed singer-songwriters, from Lady Gaga to Ladyhawke. Leading the charge for the UK are two very different acts: Little Boots and La Roux (not Florence? - Ed)...
- www.clashmusic.com
2010-10-12
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
Eighties' UK synthpop ? beloved for bathing personal sadness in the synthetic light of the available technology ? was often disparaged by critics as content-free musical frosting. In fact, it embodied the tumult of its times. On their debut, UK ingénues La Roux tip their hat to the Vince Clarks and Neil Tennants of those times, but with a less polished and more desperate air, updating synthpop's appeal for the present day...
- thephoenix.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
Boring people will say that music is not a competition and that polls and awards are essentially meaningless. But we're in a recession, the recorded music industry is on its knees and now, more than ever, record companies need their much-hyped new acts to sell records.Given all of this it still came as something of a shock when La Roux's recent single In For The Kill nestled inside the Top 10, spending a month at Number 2, the first single to do that since Take That's Rule The World...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
This is the moment in the stories of La Roux and Little Boots when everything is supposed to go wrong. Grotesquely over-laden with premature accolades, Elly Jackson and Victoria Hesketh are now expected to release faintly disappointing debut albums and then step gracefully to one side to let the next big thing come through (it's the dubstep crossover, apparently)...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
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