April 7th, 2009 4:01pm
La Roux
Frank YangA typical Sunday evening for me can go any number of ways. Catching up on the past week’s television, working ahead a bit on the blog, taunting the cat with a piece of string, whatever. What is not a typical Sunday evening is standing in front of a PA cabinet with obnoxious dance music being pounded into my ears and midsection. And yet, this was my past Sunday at the Drake Underground.
The why was because I had been invited out to see the next buzzy thing in British electro-pop, the ’80s-adoring duo called La Roux, who had been tipped as one of the BBC’s Sound of 2009 acts but who had yet to really begin to capitalize on that cachet - this made a tiny club show like this appealing for bragging rights, if nothing else. So I acquainted myself with their entire recorded output thus far - two singles clocking in at under 10 minutes total - liked what I heard, and off I went.
Photos: La Roux @ The Drake Underground - April 5, 2009
MP3: La Roux - “Quicksand” (Joe & Will Ask remix)
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Trailer: Get Around
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