La Roux's Jackson: '80s revival is over'

La Roux singer Elly Jackson has declared that the 1980s revival is "over".

The group's self-titled debut album was heavily indebted to the '80s synthpop sound, but the duo's frontwoman told Spinner that their second LP will be different.

Jackson said: "I don't want to make synth music for the rest of my f**king life.

"It was a time when I was into that, but whatever, it's done with, it's gone. The whole genre is so over. It was my thing and I'm bored with it. If I see anything more '80s-themed, I'm going to bust."

She added: "I'm impatient for a new direction as anybody else is, but I think it's going to be a bit of a new discovery. No more than six months from now, we'll be really pushing it. But at the same time, we have some experimenting to be done. I know what my influences are, so there's no problem there."

Jackson continued: "I want [the next album] to be more human, more open, warmer.

"Short and sweet is really the way it goes down. I don't like 14-track albums anymore. I want it to be 9 or 10 tracks; sort of a brick of work. We're not one of those artists that writes 50 songs and picks the 10 best ones. We write 10 songs and every one will go on the record."