Rex Orange County

Who is Rex Orange County? Well Rex is a new, young, and very talented artist that most people don’t really know by name but could be recognized by his voice in an instant. Rex is an Englishman who’s true name is Alexander O’Connor and he really blew up in America in his terrific inclusion in Tyler the Creator’s hit album Flower Boy. Rex can be heard as the chorus in most of the songs in that album as well as having co-wrote the songs “Boredom” and “Foreword”. Only after hearing these two songs, I immediately searched up all of his work prior to his feature on Flower boy and was so pleasantly surprised that the projects he created on his own, rival the “other artsy, post-genre teen artists” here in America. While Rex doesn’t have a huge library of music to listen to, the songs that he has created have been very enjoyable to us here at Blonded and we couldn’t recommend him any further. Since then, Rex has released a single titled “House” back in February and if you haven’t listened to him yet, this song is a good place to start. Rex creates very laid back music that you can just relax, vibe, mellow out to, or maybe even listen with a special someone. Some interesting facts about Rex is that he actually plays all the instruments in his songs, then records them, and then sings over those recordings. In January of 2018 Rex came in second in the BBC Sound of 2018 award after Norwegian singer Sigrid. Rex Orange County got his stage name from a nickname one of his teacher’s gave him with the OC, after O’Connor.

I hope he releases another project soon. Do you guys listen to Rex Orange County? What do you think of him?