La Roux
24th March 2027

She’s the Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and performer who has worked with Tyler, The Creator, CASISDEAD, Skream and Skrillex and sold millions of records across the globe.

Yet, judging by her new work, the best is yet to come for La Roux who returns with a fiercely redemptive fourth record that overturns expectations of both the artist and her sound. Old Flames is an emotionally expansive reckoning that moves through rebirth and renewal, doubt and acceptance, pulsing with longing and desire, isolation, tenderness and devastation. It’s an immediate and intimate record that sinks inside the skin from the first listen.

It is, says the South Londoner with a grin, her “phoenix rising from the ashes” moment. A new era, a new perspective. It’s a brilliant, imaginative, cinematic record whose references include David Lynch and Donnie Darko, All Saints and Mariah Carey alongside her jeep and summertime rain. It’s nostalgic, immersive, future facing and completely and utterly true to La Roux.

Written in the midst of heartache, hibernation and self-immolation, Old Flames is a circulatory story, beginning at the end before dissecting all that’s come before. This is an album built for replay, revealing new layers with each return. And while Old Flames burns down the past, it also clears space for something new: new sounds, new freedoms, new ways of living and loving.

Composed, written, produced, and arranged by La Roux, the album is a self-possessed statement from an artist whose compositional talent has been underestimated for far too long. Its confidence is undeniable, but the power of Old Flames lies in its candour, creativity and imagination. Across the album, she confronts the collapse of a 17-year relationship, the ache of forbidden love, the loneliness of addiction and the struggle to reconcile sexuality and identity beneath the glare of public scrutiny.

No longer hiding in plain sight, she has shed the quiff, the sunglasses and sharp tailoring. In its place stands a softer, wittier, more self-realised and transparent artist, one unafraid to be seen in full.