Foxes

Louisa Rose Allen crafts her solo electro-pop work as Foxes, a name drawn from a vivid, spectral dream her mother once described. Early releases spanning the 2012 single “Echo” and the 2013 track “Clarity,” her Billboard-charting partnership with German producer Zedd, stayed rooted in dance-pop, yet carried an idiosyncratic, refined sensibility that echoed the inventive spirit of Kate Bush and Florence + the Machine. Allen unveiled her debut album Glorious in 2014, returned to the U.K. Top 20 with All I Need two years later, and resurfaced in the early 2020s via the Friends in the Corner EP before delivering the full-length The Kick.

Born in Southampton, Allen relocated to London at eighteen and briefly pursued, then abandoned, a music-theory curriculum. The unexpected freedom let her refine the material she would eventually release through the transatlantic indie imprint Neon Gold and Sony’s Sign of the Times. A measured promotional push placed her music on the U.S. series Gossip Girl and drew mounting blog attention throughout 2012. Although she had played only a handful of shows by then, she joined labelmate Marina & the Diamonds on tour that October. Early the next year the Andy C remix of “Right Here,” her collaboration with U.K. drum’n’bass outfit Rudimental, entered the U.K. Top 75.

Moving from standalone tracks to EPs, Foxes issued Warrior in late 2012; its standout cut “Youth” circulated widely, prompting a dedicated remix package and further sync licenses. Capitalizing on that momentum, Allen completed her first album, Glorious, which surfaced in May 2014 after its second single “Let Go for Tonight” reached the U.K. Top Ten and ultimately peaked at number five on the national chart. Within twelve months she offered “Body Talk,” the Top 25 lead single from her sophomore effort All I Need, released in February 2016 and climbing to number twelve in the U.K.; the exposure earned her an opening slot on Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams stadium trek. New music surfaced in early 2018 previews, yet another two years passed before she issued “Love Not Loving You” under a fresh PIAS agreement. That song anchored the 2021 EP Friends in the Corner, and months later, in February 2022, she unveiled her third long-player, The Kick, whose shimmering dance-pop included the singles “Sister Ray” and “Sky Love.”