Rex Orange
County shares new single
"2008" ahead of this Friday's release of his new album The
Alexander Technique. The song marks the 4th taste of Rex's forthcoming album
and will be performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this coming Friday.
"2008"
is representative of The Alexander Technique as a whole -- Rex's most
unencumbered body of work to date, produced entirely by Rex himself alongside
Teo Halm (RosalÃa, SZA, Beyoncé) and Jim Reed, the latter a member of the Rex
Orange County touring band since its inception. The Alexander Technique is
named for a therapeutic practice in which back pain is treated 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.”
The Alexander
Technique
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