La Roux - Quicksand

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Nowadays I often feel like Bobby Ewing, as if I've just got out of the shower to find that the Nineties didn't actually happen at all.

Elly Jackson - aka La Roux - aka "The Red Haired One" - sounds like she's had the same dream.

Picking up where the likes of Yazoo dropped off (she cried at their one-off gig last year) "Quicksand" is released December 15th on Kitsune (with a remix by AutoKratz), and has spawned this impressively Eighties style video, courtesy of director Kinga Burza.

Flashdance hair flick? Check!

Flock of Seagulls fringe? Check!

A giant pineapple? Check!

And yet, like her music, it doesn't come across as cheap. Cheaply made perhaps, but with taste.

2009 looks set for another 'Duffy vs Adele' scenario.

Which electro-diva will you put your money on?

La Roux or Little Boots?