Alex Orange Drink "Everything is Broken, Maybe Thats O.K."
$25.00
Alex Orange Drink "Everything is Broken, Maybe Thats O.K."
$25.00
Freeman Street Records is excited to work again with Brooklyn-based songwriter Alex Orange Drink; the solo moniker for Alex Zarou Levine of The So So Glos, on his new sophomore album titled "Everything’s Broken, Maybe That’s O.K." We have teamed up with our friends at Shea Stadium Records to get this amazing album pressed on vinyl for your listening pleasure.
Available on Cloudy White vinyl, on the album, Alex explores personal subjects, including grappling with a rare and life-threatening disorder, heartbreak, never-ending teenage angst, and broken political systems. Half of the album was recorded before the pandemic in a party-like atmosphere (with basic tracking captured live among friends, family, and lovers), while the other half was completed by a heartbroken protagonist reflecting in isolation.
Lyrically, Alex delves even further into brave personal territory, continuing to explore his own individual crises and life story in a world that’s even more disjointed and damaged than before. Collaborating again with producer Adam Reich, (who was behind the board for an impressive list of classics from Brooklyn’s D.I.Y. scene) dark subject matter is transformed into positive energy, enriching the music more than any of Alex’s previous recordings. If the most cohesive and fulfilling music of Alex’s career is the outcome of everything being broken, then maybe that’s ok…
Alex Zarou Levine has been writing music & lyrics since his youth in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Most notably with his brothers in D.I.Y. punk outfit The So So Glos. There’s a 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 (and home base) 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. As with his work in The So So Glos, by flipping a slang term from the ordinary to a new identity, Alex once again exhibited a gift for spinning a negative force into something positive.
Pressing Information
200 Limited Edition Cloudy White 140g Vinyl
Available on vinyl and digitally September 17, 2021
