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London, England (2008 – present)

La Roux are an English electropop “synth duo” band made up of singer and synth player Elly Jackson and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid from London, England.

Their music is largely influenced by 1980s pop music including Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Yazoo and Prince.

The name “La Roux” is reported to be chosen like this: Jackson found a book of baby names in a bin and in the book was the name “La Roux”. ‘La Roux’ comes from the French for ‘red-haired one’ (‘le roux (masculine) or la rousse (feminine)’) referring to Jackson’s distinctive hairstyle.

Their first single

Quicksand was released by the Kitsuné Music record label in November, 2008. Polydor are set to release La Roux’s debut album on 29 June 2009. Polydor released La Roux’s second single

In For The Kill on 16 March 2009 and prominent dubstep producer Skream has made two remixes of the track. ‘In For The Kill’ debuted at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart on 22 March 2009 and has so far peaked at number 2 (as of 19 April 2009).

La Roux gained fifth position on the BBC’s Sound of 2009 poll. The Guardian website featured La Roux on their new band of the day column. The Guardian also featured La Roux as one of the “Best New Acts of 2009” in the January of that year. The album has been nominated for a Mercury Prize.

La Roux plans to wait until they finish touring, which will be well into 2010 before doing major work a second album. They do not want to rush things and do not plan on bringing in a big name producer.

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electropop, electronic, synthpop, dance, indietronica
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Top Tracks

1	Bulletproof full track	20,248
2	In For The Kill full track	13,428
3	I'm Not Your Toy full track	9,509
4	Tigerlily full track	8,198
5	Quicksand full track	7,717
6	Colourless Colour full track	7,479
7	Cover My Eyes full track	6,264
8	Fascination full track	5,948
9	As If By Magic full track	5,658
10	Reflections Are Protection full track	5,166
11	Armour Love full track	4,783
12	In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix) full track	2,598
13	Growing Pains full track	2,208
14	Growing Pains (Bonus Track)	1,358
15	In For The Kill (Lifelike Remix)	634

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RichDude4Life wrote:
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victoriab10 wrote:
2 hours ago

so catchy, love itt

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RichDude4Life wrote:
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download La Roux ringtones now for free at http://tiny.cc/ygSbz

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blue wrote:
yesterday evening

tigerlily <3

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lastvcb wrote:
yesterday evening

Vote to "Best Dressed" too. GO GO GO

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Ruthdee wrote:
yesterday afternoon

gick

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MikeTheDon1981 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nBDgMPK0rU

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Hand-of-God wrote:
yesterday morning

Argh, she just irritates me.

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bypriscila wrote:
yesterday morning

adoro ela *-*

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VanBeatriz wrote:
Monday evening

listen better than you gonna know :P.... La Roux music is too CHill x)

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ksztow wrote:
Monday evening

i don't know what is so cool in her music :P

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XMusa wrote:
Monday afternoon

Super! =D

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fucksplay wrote:
Monday afternoon

new fan as of now. [2]

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Sylar92 wrote:
Monday afternoon

Good ^^

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someone_sf wrote:
Monday afternoon

Don't like the album... sounds just... blah

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PresidentDale wrote:
Monday afternoon

Marry me now!

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P1FAGOR wrote:
Monday morning

<3<3<3 This music

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DeuxOfHearts wrote:
Monday morning

This time, baby, I'll be bulletproof.

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greenclover2009 wrote:
Monday morning

new fan as of now.

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GoodVibes_22 wrote:
Monday morning

Somehow I knew someone was going to hate on the giant pineapple. Such a shame.

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