ME REX - Megabear (2021)

Having taken a break from music for a few years, South London's ME REX began life in 2018 in the home of songwriter Myles McCabe experimenting with shouty, electronic bedroom pop. Armed with a slew of "surging gargantuan hooks" and themes of friendship, forgiveness, joy and dinosaurs, McCabe was quickly joined by longtime friends Kathryn Woods (guitar/vocals), Phoebe Cross (drums/vocals) and Rich Mandell (bass/keys/vocals). Now, graduated from producing songs at home to recording at Resident Studios in North London with Mandell behind the mixing desk: ME REX spent the latter half of 2020 bashing down the doors to the indie world with double EP 'Triceratops/Stegosuarus'.Finding their penchant for constructing delicate threads of vocal layering to convey feelings of calm while building on luscious swathes of reverberated guitar and keys on single 'Rites', the band are not afraid to explore different musical concepts: shaping material that strays from traditional album and single structures that results in a sound that could easily find a home on the big screen as they do behind closed doors.Described as "making for both a potent and cathartic listen all round" by DIY magazine - as well as seeing praise from Stereogum, BBC 6Music, Radio X, Amazing Radio, For The Rabbits and Circuit Sweet - ME REX are back with a new and ambitious project 'Megabear', an album made up of 52 tracks that has no beginning or end but exists as a cyclical body of work.Inspired by the formation of Grime music and how the length of the genre fits within the streaming age, and the symbolism found within the pages of alchemical text 'Splendour Solis' by Saloman Trismosin, McCabe set himself the challenge to write a song split up into a series of short cells, each lasting for 32 seconds in 4/4 time and Bb key. 'Megabear' is a record intended be played on shuffle mode to let the listener create their own sonic narrative. With each detail thought out - from the way each track transitions into another to the lyrical themes within the segment