La Roux

La Roux is the synth pop project of singer/songwriter Elly Jackson, whose sharp-edged songwriting and crystalline vocals made her one of the most distinctive acts to reimagine the sounds of the '80s for the 21st century. With the brittle, super-saturated but hook-laden sound of singles like "Bulletproof" and "Quicksand," as well as 2009's Mercury Prize-nominated and Grammy-winning La Roux, she paved the way for the dozens of like-minded acts that followed in the 2010s. By that time, however, Jackson had moved on to the disco- and reggae-informed grooves of 2014's Trouble in Pa...