The US debut from British electropop duo La Roux. "Owing much to the sonic wizardry of co-writer Ben Langmaid, La Roux is a perfect blend of razor-sharp pop hooks and lush 80s electronica that pitches itself firmly in the same synth-laden territories as The Human League and The Pet Shops Boys but infuses it with a jolt of modern day electricity. With tepid R'n'B and faux hip-hop eschewed in favor of sparkling melodies and ruthlessly catchy choruses that will lodge themselves in your brain for months upon e...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The US debut from British electropop duo La Roux. "Owing much to the sonic wizardry of co-writer Ben Langmaid, La Roux is a perfect blend of razor-sharp pop hooks and lush 80s electronica that pitches itself firmly in the same synth-laden territories as The Human League and The Pet Shops Boys but infuses it with a jolt of modern day electricity. With tepid R'n'B and faux hip-hop eschewed in favor of sparkling melodies and ruthlessly catchy choruses that will lodge themselves in your brain for...   [ read more ]

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Female singers are abundant in Latin pop, but for whatever reason, salsa has remained a male-dominated idiom. From the 1950s to the mid-'90s, salsa's most prominent female vocalist has been Celia Cruz, a pearl of a singer rightly exalted as "the Queen of Salsa." This excellent CD focuses largely on the recordings she made with la Sonora Mantancera in her native Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. La Sonora was already one of Cuba's top dance bands when Cruz was hired to replace singer {$Myrta ...   [ read more ]

CD $13.26