La Roux: Old Flames review – a breezy, hook-packed twist on a breakup album
(Vertigo)Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth albumOver the six years that La Roux, AKA Elly Jackson, was making her fourth album, the singer ended a 17-year relationship, confronted her weed dependency, received autism and ADHD diagnoses and lopped off her signature Johnny Bravo-esque quiff. One might expect…
(Vertigo)Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth albumOver the six years that La Roux, AKA Elly Jackson, was making her fourth album, the singer ended a 17-year relationship, confronted her weed dependency, received autism and ADHD diagnoses and lopped off her signature Johnny Bravo-esque quiff. One might expect…
