La Roux (aka Elly Jackson) made a rather subdued return to the music scene with languid synth-ballad "Let Me Down Gently." The sparse but sprawling anthem was soon relegated to buzz track status but that hasn't stopped the duo filming a suitably moody video starring frontwoman Jackson herself, her amazing red hair and a rather lovely sunrise. The art of delayed gratification in a music video is not one that is often practiced these days, but it is the crux of the first visuals we get from La Roux's long-delayed return to music.
"Let Me Down Gently" is a teaser track for the English synth-pop act's upcoming sophomore studio album, "Trouble In Paradise," which, a rep has confirmed, will drop on July 8. In an interview with Billboard, La Roux said this album is musically supposed to touch upon "what people in the 1970s thought that the future was going to look and sound like."
"Let Me Down Gently," a breathy exorcism of moody melodies and broken-hearted soul-purging, does everything a breakup anthem should, tapping into the frayed clusterfuck of anger, upset and desperate bargaining that comes with the end of a relationship. "You're not my life but I want you in it," Jackson bellows over a pulsating 80s keyboard line and thundering electro drums. Then there's the matter of a sax solo that grabs even the stoniest of hearts by the scruff of the neck, shaking you to the brink of hysterics.
The striking electro-pop pixie returns with a confident new look and sound. We love the lush, layered feel of her first video, director Oliver Hadlee Pearch, who puts Jackson in a dark room by herself (she does anguish surprisingly well) for the first half of the video and break free from a claustrophobic cell to roll like a fog down the British countryside and soaks up the sun that allows the camera to soar over the countryside on what optically appears to be a train track for the second half. The video is fairly simple, stylish and understated. In other words, a tidy start to the band's "Trouble In Paradise" campaign. Watch below and take a pensive stroll through the countryside with Elly Jackson.
"Let Me Down Gently" is a teaser track for the English synth-pop act's upcoming sophomore studio album, "Trouble In Paradise," which, a rep has confirmed, will drop on July 8. In an interview with Billboard, La Roux said this album is musically supposed to touch upon "what people in the 1970s thought that the future was going to look and sound like."
"Let Me Down Gently," a breathy exorcism of moody melodies and broken-hearted soul-purging, does everything a breakup anthem should, tapping into the frayed clusterfuck of anger, upset and desperate bargaining that comes with the end of a relationship. "You're not my life but I want you in it," Jackson bellows over a pulsating 80s keyboard line and thundering electro drums. Then there's the matter of a sax solo that grabs even the stoniest of hearts by the scruff of the neck, shaking you to the brink of hysterics.
The striking electro-pop pixie returns with a confident new look and sound. We love the lush, layered feel of her first video, director Oliver Hadlee Pearch, who puts Jackson in a dark room by herself (she does anguish surprisingly well) for the first half of the video and break free from a claustrophobic cell to roll like a fog down the British countryside and soaks up the sun that allows the camera to soar over the countryside on what optically appears to be a train track for the second half. The video is fairly simple, stylish and understated. In other words, a tidy start to the band's "Trouble In Paradise" campaign. Watch below and take a pensive stroll through the countryside with Elly Jackson.
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