There is something charged about an artist stepping into entirely new territory and making it sound inevitable. Louise Aubrie, the London-born indie rocker who has spent years building a transatlantic career on sharp songwriting and guitar-driven instinct, has released “Midnight Calls,” the first single from her sixth studio album ‘LFA’, and the first record she has written and recorded entirely in Los Angeles.
Tracked at the legendary East West Studios on Sunset Boulevard and produced and mixed by Ken Sluiter, “Midnight Calls” is tight, punchy, and immediate. It captures the feeling of being on the brink of change, shaped by late-night drives through the Hollywood Hills and the mythology of a city built on reinvention. Lines like “I’m on the edge and you’ve got the looks that kill” carry both emotional weight and cinematic scale.
Aubrie is precise about what drives the song. “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.” That transatlantic tension is not just a backdrop. It is the engine of the whole record.
‘LFA’ is described as a love letter from London to LA, drawing from personal experience and classic film history in equal measure. Aubrie has recorded at Abbey Road and East West Studios, performed at The 100 Club in London and The Bowery Electric in New York, and worked alongside musicians including Keith Scott, Solomon Walker, and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. Her debut album ‘Fingers Crossed…’, produced by Boz Boorer, earned national radio airplay and praise from Billboard.
She has since built a steady international audience through airplay on BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, Kerrang, and BBC Radio London. “Midnight Calls” signals exactly where she is headed, London grit meeting Los Angeles scale, and the result is one of her most confident releases to date.