La Roux: electro-pop is over

Like milk announcing that it has gone sour, La Roux's lead singer has declared electro-pop "over". While the British duo continue to tour their synth-heavy, electro debut, "the whole genre is ... done with", Elly Jackson said this week. "If I see anything more 80s-themed, I'm going to bust." It feels like just yesterday when Jackson and bandmate Ben Langmaid were championing the Human League and toasting Erasure. But Jackson has "grown up a bit", she explained to Spinner. "It was my thing and [now] I'm bored with it ... I don't want to make synth music for the rest of my fucking life." According to interviews in the summer , both Jackson and Langmaid have been listening to funk and Italo disco, chasing "natural bass". For their second LP, La Roux may even go acoustic. "I want it to be more human, more open, warmer," Jackson said. "I'm impatient for a new direction." But don't hold your breath for a prog-folk epic – or an album as long as their debut. "Short and sweet is really the way it goes down," Jackson explained. "I don't like 14-track albums any more. I want it to be nine or 10 tracks. We're not one of those artists that writes 50 songs and picks the 10 best ones. We write 10 songs and every one will go on the record."