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. Elly found a book of baby names in a bin. Within the book was the name La Roux. La Roux comes from the French for 'red-haired one', referring to Elly's distinctive hairstyle. Their music is largely influenced by 1980s pop music including Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Yazoo and Prince. Their first single Quicksand was released by the Kitsune Music record label in November 2008. Polydor released 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. Read more at: http://www.last.fm/music/La+Roux/+wiki. |