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ALEX THE ASTRONAUT
Releases new single & video
‘AIRPORT’ 

& Showcasing at SXSW March 2022

Playing SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS July 2022 

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Credit: Jess Gleeson

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Singer, songwriter and storyteller ALEX THE ASTRONAUT shares the sublimely devastating yet hopeful new single ‘Airport’ today, together with its video where viewers peek behind the curtain during a very special international journey. Alex the Astronaut’s first release of the year, ‘Airport’ forms a sequel of sorts to her last single ‘Growing Up’ and is available everywhere now through Warner Music Australia.

Encompassing equal parts awareness and sensitivity, imagination and idiosyncratic humor, ‘Airport’ spins a cinematic portrait of the forced separation of quarantine and its emotional fallout. “I was seeing that separation all around and experiencing it myself, and I wanted to write about what happens when you meet up with someone you care about after such a long time, and all the pressure that comes with that,” says Alex.

In a particularly powerful twist, Alex floods the verses to ‘Airport’ with a feverish account of regret and longing and minor envies (“And the song that played was Phoebe Bridgers/I turned it off ‘cause I was jealous I didn’t make it”), then takes on a stunning directness at the chorus (its sole lyric: “I’ve loved you all this time”). Throughout ‘Airport’, the impact of Alex’s outpouring is made all the more potent by the track’s choir-like harmonies, as well as a heavenly string arrangement courtesy of L.A.-based musician Daniel Chae. “When we sent that song off to Daniel it was pretty bombastic, and then he sent it back to us with a full orchestra on it,” Alex recalls. “That was definitely one of the most fun songs to work on; the feeling in the room was very much a bunch of kids in music class just playing around.”

‘Airport’ is the sequel to the avid storyteller’s single ‘Growing Up’, which landed late last year. Alex shares, “It’s a follow up to ‘Growing Up’ when you work out you actually have to reflect, admit your mistakes, and do some work to be in a proper relationship.” 

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Accompanying the track is a poignant new video, featuring footage shot by Alex as she travelled from Sydney to New York on a journey towards an emotional reunion many years in the making. New York is a place close to Alex’s heart, having lived there during her formative years. She started her music career while in New York on a soccer scholarship at Long Island University, where she studied Maths and Physics. She describes the song as a love story without an ending, “I wanted to write a love story that doesn’t have an end, that you can choose what happens to them. Pick your own adventure.”

The visceral ‘Airport’ single artwork, which depicts two divers floating mid air outside a plane window, was created by artist Giulia McGauran. McGauran also created the artwork for ‘Growing Up’.

With over 25 million streams and over 2 million views on her music videos under her belt along with adoring media fans at The New York Times, NPR, BBC Radio 1, triple j, The Guardian and The Line of Best Fit, Alex the Astronaut has captured hearts and fans around the globe. Her last single ‘Growing Up’, which soundtracked Stan’s original series Bump, was #16 most played on triple j and received Song of the Day and Best Track of the Week status across Rolling Stone, Something You Said, Music Feeds, The AU Review and more. Alex the Astronaut has released two acclaimed EPs, To Whom It May Concern (2017) and See You Soon (2017), and her critically acclaimed debut album The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (2020) named “a work of genius” by NME and included as an Honourable Mention in Rolling Stone’s Top 200 Australian Albums of All Time.

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BUY & STREAM AIRPORT – HERE

Artwork: Guilia McGauran

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