Supercooled synth-noir concept, Goodnight Louisa scuffs the surface of Hollywood glamour and takes to heart the pain, fear and loathing hidden by the limelight on latest single, ‘Drew Barrymore’. Routes of artistic escape find their way to tributes to characters trapped by child stardom on the glacial cut of dream-pop, the sixth and final track to be revealed from her second album, Marathon.

Established by the independent release of her 2022 debut, Human Danger, Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary artist and musician, Louise McCraw’s isolation at the crossroads of pop culture commentary, vivid imagination and detailed electronic-pop composition offers listeners multiple means of escape. Drilling peepholes in the veneer of fame, finding her own coping strategies in fabricated characters and holding female icons triumphantly up to the light, Barrymore follows icons, Grace Jones and Jennifer Aniston into the Goodnight Louisa songbook.

Barrymore’s history as a child star, hitting US television screens as a baby and fame imposing itself on her after 1982’s classic Stephen Spielberg classic, E.T., brings a familiar face to Goodnight Louisa’s complex and personal ruminations on entertainment, exploitation and the enduring glow of the iridescent, female stars who have lit their way to legend status.

McCraw says of the single: “I first had the big-eyed actor, Shelley Duval lin mind, and how her performance as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ had nearly killed her. She endured such abuse throughout filming. I later settled on calling the song ‘Drew Barrymore’, after her role as Casey Becker in 1996 thriller ‘Scream’. I wanted to write about the dark side of fame, and how it can make or break someone, but also to celebrate a love for show-business, the silver screen and be an anthem for protecting women and young girls across all creative industries.”