Des­pite look­ing like a solo act La Roux is actu­ally a duo com­pris­ing of Elly Jack­son and Ben Lang­maid who, at the begin­ning of the the year were tipped to become one of the big names of 2009.

Sound­ing as fresh and enga­ging as they do it’s very hard not to like them.

Sim­il­arly it’s def­in­itely dif­fi­cult to not be thank­ful for them — after all we’re being inund­ated right now with a suc­ces­sion of female led elec­tron­ica pro­jects whose names begin with L and who mostly sound the same:

Little Boots who’s been fam­ous forever but now she’s been removed from her bed­room seems awk­ward and re-hashed, Lady­Hawke who I genu­inely like but for some reason just doesn’t do it for me and Lady GaGa. The least said about Lady GaGa the better.

Clas­si­fied as part of the Wonky Pop move­ment La Roux’s music is cred­ible, andro­gyn­ous, 80s influ­enced and mind-bendingly catchy work­ing together addict­ive synth hooks, clear, pier­cing vocals and heart felt lyr­ics. Add their videos — which are in turn 80s camp, decept­ively simple, and visu­ally stun­ning — and you have a fant­astic pack­age that reeks of David Bowie, Annie Len­nox and everything that was good about the 80s.

La Roux’s debut album is set for release on the 29th of June and prom­ises to be some­thing very special.