A very understanding album
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Old tunes but sounded new
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Nice one.
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Great purchase.
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It's taken a while both to catch up with this one and to make up my mind whether or not I like it. There is a lot of it about after all ! Little Boots, Ladyhawke, Peaches, Robyn. (Miss Kittin is, of course, in a class entirely her own). Robyn's 2007 eponymous release is as fine an example of noughties electro-pop as we are ever likely to hear. Intelligent, varied and convincing. A hard act to follow. La Roux (Ms Jackson AND Mr Langmaid lest we forget) have produced a tidy little collection of 12 catchy pop songs on this sparkly little debut. Those who have witnessed my somewhat disparaging remarks about Little Boots' recent release will doubtless ask : "How do you dare compliment La Roux and damn Little Boots in virtually the same breath ?" I'm not sure that I could give a cogent explanation however. The songs are just better somehow : the arrangements disarmingly simplistic; the melodies naively memorable; the voice, despite its obvious limitations, believable. Single "Bulletproof" is a cracking little number with a killer hookline you can sing along with and dance to. The duo manage to be soulful in a not dissimilar way to their long-time-ago predecessors Yazoo on songs like 'Colourless Colour' and 'As If By Magic'. 'Tigerlily' and 'Reflections Are Protection' project a rougher, funkier edge, bursting with stripped-down economical energy. CHARM ! That's what it is. The word I've been trying to find. This stuff is CHARMING in a generous, warm-hearted, wholesome way. Electronica and more-than-a-little human magic wrapped up in a reassuringly old-fashioned brown paper parcel tied up with string. A real gift in other words. Highly Recommended.Read full review
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