Rex Orange County Goes Back in Time with New Single ‘2008’

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 (Rosalía, 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 [...]