Album review: La Roux - Trouble In Paradise

La Roux’s second album did not come by its title flippantly.

The ‘trouble’ referred to was an entirely un-amicable creative break-up between singer Elly Jackson and producer and co-writer Ben Langmaid, following the success of their 2009 debut LP.

The split, apparently prompted by Jackson’s determination to widen her circle of collaborators, plunged the already exhausted vocalist into a spiral of self doubt: she lost her voice and developed what she has described as a “psychosomatic illness”. She suspected her career might be over.