THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Rex Orange County’s new album The Alexander Technique was produced by Rex 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.
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 2 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,” says Rex. “In my mind, it’s exactly what I’ve always wanted to make.”
