ELLROY vs L.A. (OST)

Calibro 35

August 8, 2026

Soundtrack

Calibro 35 announce new album Ellroy vs L.A., a tribute to American noir due October 9 and taken from the soundtrack of the documentary of the same name by Francesco Zippel. There are collaborations that feel inevitable, as if they had been waiting to happen in some shadowed corner of culture. The union between Italian cinematic funk visionaries Calibro 35 and internationally acclaimed master of noir fiction and New York Times bestselling author James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, American Tabloid) is undoubtedly one of them. The opportunity arose through filmmaker Francesco Zippel and his documentary Ellroy vs L.A. produced by Quoiat Films, which received the Nastro d’Argento, Italy’s Critics’ Choice Award. The film is an immersive portrait of both the writer and the city of Los Angeles: Ellroy reflects on his relationship with L.A. as his words intertwine with archival footage of the city and scenes of Calibro 35 recording the soundtrack in the studio. When Calibro 35 were invited to compose the original score for Zippel’s documentary Ellroy vs L.A., they didn’t simply write music for a film. They stepped directly into Ellroy’s universe the most dangerous corners of American crime fiction and discovered, to no one’s surprise, that its darkness felt strangely familiar. The result is Ellroy vs L.A., the band’s new album, out October 9 via Record Kicks and now available for pre-order: twelve brand-new tracks of cinematic crime funk, psychedelia, and hypnotic grooves that don’t merely accompany Ellroy’s world, but inhabit it.