La Roux
- La Roux
- Band Name: La Roux
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2009
- Summary: Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid release their debut album, which has been nominated for the 2009 Mercury Prize.
- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 16
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Mixed: 4 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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Remarkably, with this astounding debut, an unassuming 21-year-old from SW2 has revitalised a forgotten form to make one of the finest forward-thinking British pop albums of recent memory.
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60Things dip slightly in the middle when Jackson's reedy vocals are exposed against a mid-tempo backing, but it's a minor quibble. [Jul 2009, p.98]
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Between the shrill, semi-anonymous voice of Elly Jackson, and Ben Langmaid's clunky paint-by-numbers beats, La Roux's eponymous debut already feels dated. [Fall 2009, p.74]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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RickW5First 3 songs are shockingly bad. Was about to throw CD out the car window then the album finds some solace. OK but nothing great or new.
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MikeL.1Insipid and derivative.
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