WREX ‘SADWORLD’ | Track By Track

WREX guide us through every pulsating twist and impassioned turn of their short, sharp and sensationally savage new EP, from front to back.

Paranoia

‘Paranoia’ is about what it feels like to be trapped inside our own heads with nothing but toxic thoughts circling around you. The whole song came from that feeling of constantly being watched, judged, and overwhelmed by the noise in your mind. The final lyric — ‘Don’t try to save me, just pull the cord’ — was actually the first thing we wrote, and everything else in the song was built backwards from that point. It was like unravelling a story in reverse. 

The breakbeats and electronic percussion throughout the track came from a collaboration with Kieron Pepper (WARGASM/THE PRODIGY). That influence pushed this song in a completely new direction and ended up shaping a lot of the electronic textures and layers on other tracks, such as ‘Consume’, as well. 

111

‘111’ is about that destructive impulse to burn your life down, even when things are actually going well. For me, that came from recognising those moments where self-destruction feels easier than sitting comfortably in peace or stability. The lyrics ‘Stimulate my toxic mind / This peace is overrated’ really captured that mindset. 

Musically, this was us leaning heavily into the raw energy of our live show. We realised over the last year that there’s a much more punk side to this band than we’d explored before, and instead of polishing everything to perfection, we wanted this track to feel primal, immediate, and instinctive. We think ‘111’ captures that side of us perfectly — it’s chaotic, aggressive, and completely unfiltered. 

Consume

‘Consume’ came from feeling completely stuck in a rut. I was frustrated, disconnected from everything around me, and honestly just exhausted by the reality of trying to survive. Like a lot of people, the cost of living crisis was — and still is — crushing, and that creates this huge sense of isolation and disconnection from the world around you. I found myself broke, detached, and endlessly doom-scrolling just to numb everything for a while, but all you’re fed is constant messaging telling you what you need, what to buy, how to look, how to live — just endlessly being told to consume. At the same time, there’s the growing epidemic of division, outrage, and hatred online that feels impossible to escape from. 

Even though the song is pretty bleak lyrically, there’s still this twisted sense of fun running through it. The bridge has this really bright, almost Beach Boys-style harmony section that we’re incredibly proud of — ‘Take it all, till it’s gone / Blow my brains against the wall’. We loved the contrast of wrapping something dark and nihilistic inside something that sounds almost euphoric. 

The Noose

‘The Noose’ feels like a war to us. Originally, the song started from a very personal place, but over time, it became something much wider. It turned into a song about conflict in every form — personal, emotional, and societal.

This track is the emotional realisation after taking the red pill, not the blue. 

We live in a world where we’re constantly connected to everything happening around us, and it can feel impossible to escape the endless stream of tragedy and anxiety being pushed in front of us every day. That feeling became a huge part of this song and, honestly, the whole EP. 

A Thousand Ways

‘A Thousand Ways’ is probably the most personal song on the EP for me. It deals with intergenerational trauma and growing up around alcoholism, but it comes from a much more compassionate place than we’ve written from in the past. In a lot of ways, the vocal feels like an attempt to say the things that were never spoken between generations.

‘A Thousand Ways’ is kind of an evolution of, and answer to, our track ‘The End’. That song was about the death of childhood, whereas ‘A Thousand Ways’ is more about forgiveness and hope.

Towards the end of the track, there’s a hidden spoken word section expressing love and reconciliation, and ending the EP with that moment feels important because it represents clarity, acceptance, and finally releasing some of the weight I’ve carried for years.