Louise Aubrie has been building something transatlantic for years, and her sixth studio album is where it all converges. The London-born indie rock artist releases “Midnight Calls,” the first single from ‘LFA’, her first record written and recorded entirely in Los Angeles, tracked at the legendary East West Studios on Sunset Boulevard and produced and mixed by Ken Sluiter.
The song arrives from a specific place. Aubrie spent her nights driving through Hollywood Hills, absorbing the mythology of the city at all hours, catching up with people across time zones, and finding new creative territory in the disorientation of it all. “It’s always interesting when you have a life in both the UK and US as I find I am awake at all times of the day and night catching up with people, which can trick your brain into new areas of creativity,” she says. That restless energy is embedded in every bar of the track.
“Midnight Calls” is tight, punchy, and guitar-driven, built on the same sharp songwriting instincts that earned Aubrie national airplay on BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, Kerrang, and BBC Radio London, plus early praise from Billboard for her debut ‘Fingers Crossed…’, produced by Boz Boorer. Over the years she has recorded at Abbey Road, performed at The 100 Club in London and The Bowery Electric in New York, and worked alongside Keith Scott, Solomon Walker, Charlie Paxson, and Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
‘LFA’ is a record shaped by relocation, late nights, and the charged feeling of standing on the edge of something new. “Midnight Calls” makes a strong case for paying close attention to what comes next.