The 2008 debut single from La Roux announced the project's arrival with a sharp, angular sound that would define its early career. It was a harbinger of the full-length album 'Natural Disaster' that followed.
- "Quicksand" was co-written by Jackson and Ben Langmaid, who together with a third member, Mickey de Gilder, formed the core of La Roux at the time.
- The single was released by Interscope Records in the US in December 2008. It followed its release in the UK earlier that year.
- "Quicksand" charted at number 154 on the UK singles chart.
La Roux is the electropop project of English singer and songwriter Elly Jackson. La Roux emerged in the late 2000s as part of a wave of synth-pop revival.
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