Trouble in Paradise — SHAUN HAURIN

Chalk it up to the unseasonably warm weather, but I can't stop looking at the cover art for La Roux's Trouble in Paradise. Maybe it's the vivid eighties color scheme; maybe it's the cut-paper collage feel; maybe it's nothing more than singer Elly Jackson's stylish Bowie/Bryan Ferry vibe and amazing hair. Likely it's all of the above and more. Whatever the case, I'm ready to climb up on the hood of that car and have my picture taken with her, even--no, especially--if that androgynous provocative woman turns out to be nothing but trouble, as the album title suggests.