Blog: Mixtape Maestro

La Roux find another 8-bit digi-White-funk playground to explore inner feelings in on "In For The Kill", the equally-agreeable follow-up to their much-hyped Fall debut "Quicksand" (which Maestro didn't realize carried a slight lesbianic tinge until recently, making that record even more hot). This time around, singer Elly Jackson's blurred falsetto latches onto a lyric in which she shrugs off all traces of shyness in an effort to take a platonic relationship to that next level. All tumbled words, "full stops and exclamation marks", Elly nervously lays all her cards on the table, unable to [...]