Lady in Red

After yesterday's 'Sound of 2009' post, I went to the effort of listening to efforts of the various hotly-tipped artists.

It has to be said that most of them rank quite highly on a scale of one to brilliant. Empire of the Sun, White Lies, Florence and the Machine and Dan Black were all pleasant discoveries and I shall be illegally downloading making legitimate purchases of their music.

Pick of the bunch though is probably La Roux.

Signed to Polydor (although her first single was released by uber-cool indie label Kitsuné), La Roux is 20-year-old Brixtonite Elly Jackson. Popjustice has this to say about her: "File this one under pop music that sounds like dance music/dance music that sounds like pop music, alongside Little Boots, Frankmusik and Lady Ga Ga, although La Roux's own influences include Michael Jackson, The Knife, Human League, Talk Talk and CSS."

Here's the video for her new song, Quicksand. If it wasn't so amazing, Prince would probably sue.