Me Rex | |
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| Origin | London, England |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Labels | Big Scary Monsters, Rose Coloured Records |
| Members | Myles McCabe Rich Mandell Phoebe Cross |
| Past members | Kathryn Woods |
| Website | www |
Me Rex, stylised as ME REX, is a British indie rock band formed in London by songwriter Myles McCabe. Initially a solo endeavour, it has now expanded to a full band with the addition of Rich Mandell (Happy Accidents) and Phoebe Cross (Happy Accidents, Cheerbleederz). They have released one full-length album and multiple EPs.[1]
Myles McCabe originally formed ME REX in 2015 as a solo project, though occasionally working with collaborators. Between then and 2018 he self-released six EPs each named after a dinosaur or prehistoric mammal. ME REX toured England with anti-folk acts Crywank and Perkie in the summer of 2018.[2]
In 2019, McCabe formed a full band with Kathryn Woods, a bandmate from Fresh, and friends Rich Mandell and Phoebe Cross from the band Happy Accidents. This newly-formed band both re-recorded various older songs and EPs, and also went on to produce an entirely new, full-length album entitled Megabear.[1]
Via the record label Big Scary Monsters, ME REX re-released Triceratops digitally in August 2020 as a double EP with a re-recorded version of Stegosaurus.[3]
In February 2021, the band released their first full-length album Megabear. Rather than a traditional album of distinct songs, Megabear consists of "52 short song snippets, all of them in a similar key and time signature so they can be shuffled in any order to create one continuous song with no beginning or end".[4][5]
In February 2022, ME REX released an EP titled Pterodactyl containing all new material.[6] The following month, they announced that another brand new EP titled Plesiosaur would be released on 30 May of the same year.[7]
On 26 July 2023 a full-length album was announced, entitled Giant Elk, for release on 20 October on Big Scary Monsters. Depending on interpretation of Megabear as one long song, or as an album of unusual structure, this is either their debut album proper or their second.[8][9]