Alex Rex, the nom de guerre of Alex Neilson, returns with his new album Andromeda out 7th February 2020 which includes guest appearances from Shirley Collins and Steve Jackson. Watch the video for first single “Haunted House”.
Alex Rex and Trembling Bells have released a split 10” for Record Store Day…the final two statements from Trembling Bells. Watch the accompanying video for Irish trad. “Night Visiting Song” filmed by Oliver Neilson.
Otterburn is still recognisably – and brilliantly – part of Neilson’s impressive and growing catalogue of work, but these are songs hacked out of the rock of grief and raw emotion, and they are something quite special.
Alex Neilson of the Trembling Bells has announced the release of his second solo album Otterburn (under the moniker Alex Rex) out 29th March on Tin Angel Records. Listen to lead single ‘Master’.
This brilliant, eclectic and challenging new folk and experimental compilation has attracted a stellar cast of contributors while raising vital money for vulnerable young people in Southend. All in a very worthwhile cause.
Dungeness provides further persuasive evidence of Trembling Bells’s ever-broadening evolutionary (and revolutionary) scope of their music. They are still very much a force to be reckoned with, of that let me leave you in no doubt.
Watch the latest video from Alex Rex (Alex Neilson / Trembling Bells) for Lucy, a song taken from his debut solo album Vermillion which is out now on Tin Angel Records.
Alex Rex (Alex Neilson) is an artist with a singular, uncompromising vision that he expresses in multifaceted and always fascinating ways. Vermillion, his solo debut, is both daring and formidable. An insight into ‘a complex and inquisitive musical mind.’
A new mix from our Lost in Transmission Series featuring Karima Walker, Human Behavior, Dan Blakeslee, Robert Sunday, Alex Rex, HMS Ginafore, Harrow Fair, Dirtwire, Mount Eerie, Allred & Broderick and more.
Taken from Alex Rex’s (Alex Neilson, Trembling Bells) forthcoming album Vermillion, “Song For Dora” is a skewed voodoo blues that combines Captain Beefheart style hoedown with Gregorian chant. Watch the new video which features traditional Tar Barrel Burning.
Shirley Collins’ Lodestar performance at the Barbican is fresh and contemporary and avant-garde at times. The assembled musicians are nothing short of brilliant, the arrangements are in turns atmospheric, joyous, stirring and thrilling.
Pangs finds Alasdair Roberts in a power trio with his long-time musical partners Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones, and along with guests Debbie Armour, Tom Crossley, Rafe Fitzpatrick and Jessica Kerr. Listen to The Downward Road, our Song of the Day.
