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Inside Rex Orange County’s Most Ambitious Album Yet, and Why It Feels Like ‘Some Sort of End’

Rex Orange County’s new album, 'The Alexander Technique,' is his most ambitious yet.

Rex (born Alexander O’Connor) started the project back in 2020, around the same time he was crafting his third album, Who Cares?, on which he worked almost exclusively with Dutch musician and songwriter Benny Sings. Eventually, he realized that Who Cares not only had to be released first, but that The Alexander Technique deserved much more time, saying it “was more ambitious as a whole.” As a result, the artist has emerged with his longest album yet, boasting a tracklist of 16 songs compared to his usual 10. The trek will hit select theaters in cities including Chicago, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and London for mini residencies – likely a one-off for this album, he says – allowing for a more involved set that will be “highly linked to one of the visual locations” seen in his music videos.

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