ALEX ORANGE DRINK

Alex Zarou Levine has been writing music & lyrics since youth in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Most notably with his brothers in D.I.Y. punk outfit The So So Glos. There’s dark subtext to his lyrics which are often laced into bright, hooky outsider anthems. During a period in which his band went on hiatus and local DIY venue Shea Stadium shuttered, Alex Orange Drink was born. The new solo project took its name “orange drink” as a nod to the medication Alex depends on to treat a rare metabolic disease, Homocystinuria. On his sophomore record - Everything’s Broken, Maybe That’s Ok - a permanent state of teenage angst manifests itself through even more hushed tones and sugar-coated sweetness than his debut, resulting in a more complex, vivid soundscape. The album contains two contrasting songs about grappling with a life-threatening disorder (“Homocystinuria Pt. 1” & “Pt. 2”), three songs about chemical addictions triggered by love (“Oxytocin”, “It’s Only Drugz”, “I L.U.V. I.O.U.”), plenty of references to the intersection of technology & mental health (“Clickbait, Click Me”), and a closing track that implies that a cure may be found in a return to the natural world (“The Sun Is Only Shining”). Lyrically, Alex delves even further into brave personal territory, continuing to explore life's story in a world that’s even more disjointed and damaged than before. If the most cohesive and fulfilling music of Alex’s career is the outcome of everything being broken, then maybe that’s ok.

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