New Single – La Roux “Quicksand” (Preview + DL)
La roux are an English electropop outfit. They are finding moderate success in Australia after having warm reception in the United Kingdom. Their sound is quirky, very distinct, and catchy. When you listen to their album all the way through, each song sounds somewhat similar, there is a distortion in the beats that you can hear throughout the music, this is both good and bad.
Listen to a preview of the song "Quicksand" below!
On the one hand it's good, because it's great to find an album that is a solid body of work that links in with itself, not just a collection of 12 tracks recorded serpately and at different times. Yet it can become a little repetitive, hopefully this doesn't become a big issue for them.
The song I will be featuring today is called "Quicksand", whilst it is no the current single (see "Bulletproof, which I will feature by next week) this song has a lot of emotion and a very authentic sound to it. It's definetly a great track, and it is the most distinct one in the entire album. This has a great hook in it, but is also a little bit different to the top 40 music we are seeing today. You may be able to distinguish the distortion they use on their beats from the song, it's really catchy, but when it is on every track of the album, it can get slightly boring.
(La Roux "Quicksand")
La Roux have one gold album in the UK and two Gold singles in Australia so far and it looks like they might only just be getting started! Download the song if you want to hear more, and if you like it, please purchase the album in store, it is definetly a worthy album to buy, so many great tracks! Leave a comment below, tell me what you think of La Roux, have you seen them live?