two hearts with accurate devotions

I saw La Roux a couple of weeks ago at our union’s indie night. They were one of the very few decent bands to play there (not many bands are prepared to play an event which costs £4 a ticket) and I thought they were absolutely amazing. I love Elly Jackson’s look, it’s quite androgynous and very reminiscent of Annie Lennox in her Eurhythmics days (before she took the weight of the world’s problems upon her own shoulders and became the female version of Bono). Recently I’ve become obsessed with ‘In for the Kill’ and particularly Annie Mac’s ‘mash-up edit -- as it’s called on YouTube. It’s essentially just a sped up version of the remix by Skream but I think its faster tempo helps to encapsulate the sense of urgency in the song. However, it’s definitely Jackson’s haunting voice that makes the song. It almost sounds like she sang it in a vacuum, physical impossibilities aside.