La Roux

The thin-voiced Elly Jackson really isn't soulful enough to be the new Alison Moyet, no matter what this multiple-Brit-hit synth-pop duo's fans claim. But she may well be Berlin's Terri Nunn reborn with a British accent. And in upbeat bounces like "Fascination," "Reflections Are Protection" and the blatantly Yazoo-copying U.K. chart-topper "Bulletproof," her better half Ben Langmaid does come up with cute electro-beats. Above the beats, in songs such as the teen-tantrum "Growing Pains," Jackson occasionally even proves she has a beating heart.

Elly Jackson is the perfect London pop star of the moment: a 21-year-old loudmouth
bossypants with appallingly awesome hair and a vacant stare of a voice. Along with
co-writer and fellow synth dude Ben Langmaid, she's ruling U.K. radio with splashy dance
hits about sex and betrayal. The definitive gem on the duo's debut album is "Bulletproof,"
where she vows, "I'm not turned on to love until it's cheap" — and in La Roux son... More >