{"id":2350296,"date":"2026-03-29T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2350296"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:06:38","slug":"wrex-release-new-music-video-for-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wrex-release-new-music-video-for-paranoia\/","title":{"rendered":"WREX release new music video for &#8216;Paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>WREX<\/strong> have released a new music video!<\/p>\n<p>The rising Brighton alt\u2011rock duo have unveiled a brand new music video for their latest single, <strong>Paranoia<\/strong>. The track is taken from their newly announced EP, <strong>SADWORLD<\/strong>, which is set for release on May 20th, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paranoia<\/strong> follows the previously released <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/distortedsoundmag.com\/wrex-release-new-music-video-for-consume\/\"><strong>Consume<\/strong><\/a> and opens the five\u2011track EP with a stark depiction of anxiety, trauma, and the spiralling inner monologue that shapes the record\u2019s thematic core. For the first time, <strong>WREX<\/strong> handed full creative control of a music video to an external collaborator \u2013 award\u2011winning director\/DP <strong>Dogbrain<\/strong> <strong>[WARGASM, SOUTH ARCADE]<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about their journey into the new EP, vocalist <strong>Mae Seaton<\/strong> says, <em>\u201cthe last year has been about getting out there and pushing ourselves \u2013 playing as much as we can, meeting people, and feeling that connection in real time. We\u2019ve played 54 shows over the last year, and that\u2019s completely changed our perspective. This project started with two people and a laptop, so being in those rooms night after night has forced us out of our own heads, stripped something back, and let the songs take on a different weight once they\u2019re shared with other people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This EP is about taking our personal experiences and opening them up in a way that other people can identify with. Our prior writing was very focused on the self; <strong>SADWORLD<\/strong> is more of a reflection on the impact of the world in its current state, and on the community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guitarist\/vocalist <strong>George Donoghue<\/strong> adds that <strong>Paranoia<\/strong>\u00a0was written backwards, built from its final lyric \u2013 <em>\u201cDon\u2019t try to save me, just pull the cord\u201d \u2013 <\/em>forming the EP\u2019s emotional and conceptual entry point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the official music video for Paranoia here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WREX - Paranoia [Official Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UvHSlF-jPlo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>SADWORLD is set for release on May 20th, 2026. Pre-saves are available now and can be accessed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/wrex-sadworld\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"cm-posts clearfix\">\n<article id=\"post-224658\" class=\"post-224658 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-alternative category-music-video category-new-song category-news tag-consume tag-halestorm-pr tag-wrex\">\n<div class=\"cm-post-content\">\n<div class=\"cm-entry-summary\">\n<p><strong>For more information on WREX like their official page on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wearewrex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source distortedsoundmag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WREX have released a new music video! The rising Brighton alt\u2011rock duo have unveiled a brand new music video for their latest single, Paranoia. The track is taken from their newly announced EP, SADWORLD, which is set for release on May 20th, 2026. Paranoia follows the previously released Consume and opens the five\u2011track EP with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2350297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[411998,456056,410907],"class_list":["post-2350296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-halestorm-pr","tag-paranoia","tag-wrex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WREX-release-new-music-video-for-Paranoia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350298,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350296\/revisions\/2350298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}