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Rex Orange County Is Major

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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How to Write a Song That Doesn't Make It

There was a studio in London called Strongroom where the majority of the album was recorded. I went there pretty much every day for a lot of days Just to track things and try things and a lot of playing and things Like a lot of, you know, just ideas and stuff that didn't make it. It was actually not a lot more, there wasn't a lot left over. There was probably three or four that were considered, heavily considered In fact, there was probably five and the first three or something happened at the beginning of the album where I thought they were going to make it. They just didn't end up making it, but they were really worthwhile having there. People say

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