Christian Alexander has always been ambitious, but it’s only recently that he has started to feel confident. Over the last two years, the boundaries of his life have extended past the walls of his garage studio at his parents’ house in Garstang (a 5000-strong town near Preston) to Los Angeles where he spent six months working on his debut album. In fact, he recently performed live for the first time ever, opening for mentors and collaborators Brockhampton at their final UK appearances at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, facing down the iconic space with a ‘fuck you, I’m gonna be amazing’ energy. Now that’s confidence.
On his debut album, ‘I Don’t Like You’, the DIY charm of his previous projects has been polished just enough to glint without wiping away the grit completely. The clean, spacious piano of ‘Waste Her Time’ slowly builds into a stadium-filling roar of emotion and ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ flips the Basement Jaxx hook into a swirl of layered…
