Watch Alex Rex’s ‘Boss Morris’ video, a tribute to his favourite all-female Morris dancing side, the titular Boss Morris – energy, colour, self-invention and profound knowledge of the tradition all collapsed into something that has reinvigorated the form.
The songs on Alex Rex’s ‘The National Trust’ may revel in bitterness and humiliation, but they are real and unflinching and fearsomely clever and often beautiful. Neilson remains an absolute one-off.
Watch the video for Alex Rex’s latest single, My Old Self Again, a drunk country ditty that was hatched during lockdown. The single is taken from The National Trust, his new album, due for release on March 28th via The Barne Society (pre-order today).
Alex Neilson has announced that his new album ,The National Trust, will be the final studio album to be released under his moniker Alex Rex. It will be released on March 28th via The Barne Society.
Watch the video for Psychic Rome, the new single from Alex Rex, which reveals his fascination for a period when the Roman Empire was at its most glorious and depraved. He’s accompanied by Rory Haye, Lavinia Blackwall and Marco Rea.
To create an album that works both as a collection of poetry and a musical offering must be doubly difficult, but with Mouthful Of Earth, Alex Neilson has pulled it off with endless originality and lusty lyricism.
Alex Rex announces new poetry/drone record “Mouthful Of Earth” featuring music from Richard Youngs, Alastair Galbraith & Lavinia Blackwall. Listen to the first cut from the album ‘Wastwater’ – “…a love letter written in light. It was inspired by the uncanny valleys of the Lake District.”
As songwriters go, nobody puts quite as much on the table as Neilson. In a live setting such raw experiences are both valuable and, in this case, hugely rewarding. Memory, Speak is a moment in time, a document of Alex Rex at their most formidable and fragile.
Alex Rex’s aphoristic approach to songwriting means that every line he writes sounds like a defining statement, but on Paradise, those statements come together (albeit in a ragged and even contradictory way) to form perhaps his most rewarding piece of work to date.
Watch ‘Black Peonies’, the latest single from Alex Rex featuring acclaimed Canadian singer/songwriter and one half of Kacy & Clayton, Kacy Lee Anderson. The video was shot in Glasgow and directed by acclaimed musician, filmmaker and choreographer Daisy JT Smith.
Alex Rex share video for new single ‘What’s Shouted In The Dark…’, taken from their fourth album Paradise which finds Neilson reunited with ex-Trembling Bells vocalist Lavinia Blackwall. “It has a flick knife riff, pneumatic drums and themes of self-deception and destruction…”
Andromeda, like its predecessor, is a difficult, brilliant, rewarding snapshot of human turmoil…the stature of this formidable album will continue to grow even as the scars it describes begin to heal.
