La Roux: Tinny machine

They sound as flat, synthy and funkless as any 80s pop band … and that's just fine. Alexis Petridis on La RouxOf the three synth-toting female singer-songwriters who have so far dominated the Big In 2009 lists, 20-year-old Elly Jackson is by far the most complex ­figure. You can guess as much just by looking at her. In contrast to her glittery blonde counterparts, she looks pale and wan and rather Tilda Swintonish, staring glumly from beneath the kind of haircut that will one day provok...

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