The Alexander Technique Rex Orange County

• 1Alexander04:44
• 2Guitar Song03:57
• 3200802:33
• 4Therapy04:05
• 54 In The Morning02:07
• 6Jealousy04:00
• 7The Table03:01
• 8Pure04:05
• 9One Of These Days02:31
• 10Carrera02:16
• 11Much Too Much03:18
• 12Sliding Doors03:20
• 13Lost For Words03:22
• 14Look Me In The Eyes03:44
• 15New Years03:01
• 16Finally03:01
• Total Runtime53:05

Info for The Alexander Technique

Rex Orange County announces his new album The Alexander Technique for release on September 6th via RCA Records. The album was produced entirely by Rex himself alongside Teo Halm (Rosalía, SZA, Beyoncé) and Jim Reed, the latter a member of the Rex Orange County touring band since its inception, in addition to James Blake who produced and features on “Look Me In The Eyes.”

To coincide with the announcement, Rex is sharing two new singles with accompanying music videos, “Alexander” and “Guitar Song,” that showcase two distinctly different sides of the album. Album opener “Alexander” arrives with a Nick Walker-directed music video that introduces the inspiration for the album’s title while the video for “Guitar Song” features footage of Rex filmed by Alexandra Waespi at Decoy Studios in England during the album’s creation.

The Alexander Technique is named for a therapeutic practice in which back pain is treated in order to address deeper health problems, and it’s an apt name for Rex’s most raw album to date: what may have begun as a simple exercise in changing the purview of his writing ended up becoming his most confessional, open-hearted album. Stripping back his sound to a skeletal mixture of stream-of-consciousness R&B and indie-folk, while retaining the orchestral lushness that’s become his trademark, The Alexander Technique marks the beginning of Act Two of Rex Orange County’s career: a new chapter on which he lays everything bare, no matter how painful that might be.

“The Alexander Technique is very much a look into my own brain and experiences over the last few years – it’s almost a diary,” he says. Longer than any project he’s ever made and more musically varied, The Alexander Technique was made over a matter of years, started before and finished after 2022’s WHO CARES?; listening to it feels like watching an artist grow in real-time, and face all the attending growing pains that come alongside. “I’ve made a lot of love songs over the years, and I feel as though this is the first time I’m trying to make a project about everything in life. In my mind, it’s exactly what I’ve always wanted to make.”

Rex Orange County

Rex Orange County
Blending a way with words and elements of jazz, hip-hop, soul, and bedroom electronica into a sophisticated type of singer/songwriter fare, Rex Orange County is the performance alias of English musician Alex O'Connor. Raised in the village of Grayshott along the border of Hampshire and Surrey, O'Connor studied music at the BRIT School in London as a teenager. Gaining entrance on his main instrument, drums, he also sang and played guitar, and picked up piano and production software skills while working on his first album as a student there. With the "O.C." derived from O'Connor, he used the Rex Orange County moniker to self-release bcos u will never be free for streaming as a 17-year-old in 2015. As word of his distinctive style spread, he followed it up with songs like 2016's "Uno" and early 2017's "Best Friend" and "Sunflower" before releasing his second self-made LP, Apricot Princess, that April. Among his fans by that time was Tyler, the Creator, who featured Rex Orange County on two tracks from his Flower Boy album, released in July 2017. February 2019 saw the arrival of the bittersweet Valentine's Day-themed single "New House."

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