Rex Orange County
Rex Orange County est de retour à Paris pour nous présenter son nouvel album « WHO CARES ? ». Alex O’Connor, également connu sous le nom de Rex Orange County, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète doué connu pour sa bedroom pop insolite qui combine des influences jazz, hip-hop et soul. Alex O’Connor était encore adolescent lorsqu’il a attiré l’attention en ligne pour la première fois en 2015 pour son album autoproduit « bcos u will never b free’. En 2017, l’artiste a sorti son album Apricot Princess et en 2019, l’artiste a sorti son album encore plus ambitieux et influencé par le jazz, PONY. En 2022, Rex Orange County signe son grand retour avec deux nouveaux singles, AMAZING et KEEP IT UP, extrait de son nouvel album « WHO CARES? », paru le 11 mars 2022 chez Columbia. Ses influences musicales multiples, ont permis à Rex Orange County de créer un univers pop très élégant, teinté de jazz, de soul et de hip hop.
Après avoir passé la majeure partie de l’année 2020 en quarantaine à Londres pour des raisons sanitaires, Alex s’est rendu à Amsterdam pour enregistrer son nouvel album « WHO CARES? » avec l’artiste Benny Sings; il s’agit de la deuxième collaboration de Rex Orange County avec Benny Sings après le single « Loving Is Easy », sorti en 2017. Sur cet album, Rex Orange County signe une collaboration avec le rappeur Tyler, The Creator sur « OPEN A WINDOW », ce qui marque la première collaboration entre les deux artistes depuis l’album Flower Boy de Tyler en 2017.
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Alex O’Connor, also known as Rex Orange County, is a gifted singer/songwriter known for his literate, quirky brand of bedroom pop that combines jazz, hip-hop, and soul influences. O’Connor was still a teenager when he first gained attention online in 2015 for his self-produced album bcos u will never be free. He built upon his viral buzz with 2017’s Apricot Princess, which found him further expanding his sound. The album cracked the Top Ten of Billboard’s Independent Albums chart, and paved the way for his even more ambitious, jazz-inflected 2019 effort PONY.
Rex Orange County’s new album WHO CARES? is due March 11th 2022. This is Rex’s first since 2020’s Live at Radio City Music Hall EP taken from his two sold-out shows at the venue in 2020 just before his international Pony tour was cut short in Berlin due to Covid-19. As it turns out, however, that tour being cut short is part of the genesis of this album. After spending the bulk of 2020 quarantined back home in the UK, Rex made the trek to Amsterdam that fall to record with Benny Sings, with whom he crafted the 2017 platinum selling breakout single « Loving Is Easy. »
What started as sessions without expectations turned into an incredibly productive 48-hour window of recording with Benny, prompting a follow-up trip to Amsterdam. The subsequent 10 days of work together produced his fourth album, made in close partnership with Benny, that is a playful record by an artist in a playful mood. The album also finds Rex reunited with one of his earliest champions, Tyler, The Creator, who contributes a verse to « OPEN A WINDOW, » which marks the first time the two have collaborated since Tyler’s 2017 album Flower Boy.