La Roux

Its all false love and affection. You don't like me you just want the attention.

>So I brought the debut album of the Electro-pop duo La Roux, expecting it to have the few good singles and the rest dull 80's synth.
+ >Not only are there a 1 or 2 good songs, but a 8 possible singles. The first 7 songs and then 'fascination' are all so strong and could easily be released as singles.
>This album is such a surprise for me , i had no idea la roux had it in them. Also watching backstage video's and acoustic performances it's great to see Elly can actually sing and Ben is incredible on the synths. >'Tigerlily' demonstrates another side of La Roux. Its a much more agressive track, with a little less synths. It also has a ghostly spoken voice part at the bridge, by Elly Jacksons dad. Contrasting with this is the love ballad of 'Cover My Eyes' where Elly suposidly cryed during recording as of the personal attachments with the song.
> The use of the london comunity choir really adds to the songs , particularly in ' Cover My Eyes'.
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Many of the tracks do sound the same. Especially at the opening in tracks such as 'in for the kill' 'tigerlilly' + 'colourless colour'. This is really due to the same synth noise/effect and chords being repeatedly used.

01. In For The Kill

02. Tigerlily

03. Quicksand

04. Bulletproof

05. Colourless Colour

06. I'm Not Your Toy

07. Cover Your Eyes

08. As If By Magic

09. Fascination

10. Reflections Are Protections

11. Armour Love

+ Growing pains (bonus track )

9

Download: Tigerlilly, Bulletproof, Cover My Eyes and my favorite, 'I'm Not Your Toy'

I'm Not Your Toy:

Tigerlily:

LIT/TLE BO0T5 vs. L@ RouX

- their personality? -their style? - their music?

-LA ROUX
- real name Elly Jackson, from Brixton London.
- actually a duo but the man behind the music, doesnt really come out for photos.
- apparently named la roux as when she was a younger she found a book with baby names in and the name "la roux" means red haired one.
- Came 5th in BBC sound of 2009 list.
- Single "in for the kill" got to no. 2 of the charts.
- Self titled album comes out 29 of june.
- She co-writes her songs, she does the lyrics.
- Has famous soap star mother.
Download: in for the kill,bulletproof,quicksand.

IN FOR THE KILL:

BULLETPROOF:

LITTLE BOOTS-
-real name is Victoria Hesketh
-Named Little boots after "Caligular(roman emperor) meaning little boots in latin
-Came 1st in BBC sound list!
-Playes synthesizers,piano,stylophone and..... Tenorion. Tenorion is a crazy beat sampler, with flashing LED lights. Check it out especially on her home made video's!
- Comes from Blackpool, England.
- Debut album "Hands" comes out on the 6th of june.
Download:New in town, Meddle,Stuck on Repeat,Mathematics.
so many to choose, but i'll put up the less common one's.
NEW IN TOWN:

MATHEMATICS:


THEIR PERSONALITY: Cant say i actually know them,but from interviews, La roux comes across as a bit arrogant, for example, on a shortlist for upcoming acts she said in front of Frankmusik, that she was obviously the best there. La RUDE. In every Little boots interview she's always polite nice an genuine.
Winner little boots.
THEIR STYLE: I guess this is a clear winner for me, but I'm probably wrong, dont know much about style.
VS I reckon La roux. Look at her other pictures too. She wears some sick stuff, probably cause she's from brixton.
THEIR MUSIC: The hardest..... Well la roux defiantly has the stronger , more likely to do well in the charts songs, there's only really 2 actually, "in for the kill" which has already done well and "bulletproof" which i'm sure will. Little boots has very consistently good songs, every song i listed on her's is really good. I think the little boots album will appeal to more people and br more successful, but many La roux fans will buy her album as they know "in for the kill" and hope the rest will be similar. The albums havn't even come out yet, so im just taking a guess on the few songs i've heard.
Winner: La Roux(as she's more punchy!) haha.

Overall winner:


LITTLE BOOTS
- SHE WRITES ALL HER OWN MUSIC AND LYRICS.
- SHE'S NICER AND KINDER IN INTERVIEWS.
-SEEMS MORE GENUINE.
-HAS CONSISTENTLY GOOD SONGS.
-HER HOME MOVIES WITH HER IN HER PJ'S , USING THE TENERION MAKING COVERS OF SONGS ARE FUCKING SICK!
-SHE'S A BABE.
-SHE SET OUT TO MAKE POP SONGS AND TO MAKE PEOPLE DANCE, AND SHE'S DONE JUST THAT.