Here’s another music act to look out for. If you’ve been following our weekly UK chart updates, they have their 2nd single, “In For The Kill“, peaked at number 2. Now on for some brief info about them.
La Roux are a British electropop synth duo band made up of singer and synth player Elly Jackson, and co-writer co-producer Ben Langmaid, Their music is largely influenced by 1980s synth pop including Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Human League and Prince.
As for the origin of the group name, Elly claims to have found a book of baby names in a bin and within the book was there’s a name La Roux, French for “red-haired one” (although the actual French would be “La Rousse”).
La Roux’s second single “In for the Kill” was released on 16 March 2009. Debuted at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart on 22 March 2009, which would eventually peaked at number 2.
La Roux were the supporting act on Lily Allen‘s UK tour in March 2009 and obtained the fifth position on the BBC’s Sound of 2009 poll, amongst critics and the like.
Their genre of music is Electropop and Sythpop, which I really adore loads. I didn’t really get on the hype of “In for the Kill“, but their 3rd single changed my mind. “Bulletproof” is the third single by pop duo La Roux from their upcoming debut self-titled album and the song is to be digitally and physically released on June 15 2009. Love the video too. It’s very artsy. I’m sure Bulletproof would do well as the followup. It’s electropop/sythpop madness!!! My kinda stuff. =)
Both the Foamo and Zinc remix are the bomb. The Tepr mix is not bad, sounds like a dub with only the use of the chorus. Enjoy!!!