La Roux hits out at “overall performance” of her label

Two months on from the release of her long-awaited second LP, ‘Trouble In Paradise’, Elly Jackson aka La Roux has discussed the shortcomings of her record label, Polydor.

Speaking to Digital Spy about the performance of her record - which hit the top 10 in the UK, before missing out on a Mercury Prize nomination - she stated that “I’m not really happy with the overall performance of my record label. And I’m not the only one who’s noticed it.”

Jackson elaborated by saying “It’s really frustrating when your label kind of expects certain things to happen, and then they don’t happen, and then they just stop bothering,” before stating “I’m not the same person who wrote ‘Bulletproof’, but nobody really knows what I am going to be yet.

“I think it’s something that’s obvious to everybody who likes the record; that the backing it wants - and I feel deserves - wasn’t quite there.”

The new single from ‘Trouble In Paradise’, ‘Kiss and Not Tell’, is due out 6th October. It recently arrived via an inventive new video, featuring a La Roux hotline. Watch that below.