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Alex the Astronaut has always had a supernatural knack for capturing human experience in song. Now, on her debut album, The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing, Australian singer, songwriter and storyteller Alex Lynn is delving deeper into what makes us tick more than ever before.

The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing explores friendship, love, loss, pain and change, weaving a constellation of stories about the personal reckonings that come with growing up. It's something Alex has spent the last 18 months living through. "I transitioned out of college, I went through my first break-up, I lost a friend, and I got into my first proper grown up relationship, and I started seeing bigger problems in the world," she explains. "All of these things made me feel like I know absolutely nothing when I thought I was in the know before. It's been very humbling and eye opening."

With her heart-swelling, folk-inflected pop, music's bright-eyed anthropologist uses sprawling narratives and rich vignettes to unravel the joys and struggles of everyday life. Brought to life with bright melodies, plucked guitar and Alex�s unmistakable vocals, The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing is the work of a storyteller attuned to the world around her.

The Theory of Absolutely Nothing follows two acclaimed EPs (To Whom It May Concern and See You Soon, both released in 2017) and a slew of big singles, which have had a way of landing at just the right moment. The track that started it all was 2016's 'Already Home', which contains the now-iconic line "And there�s billionaires for presidents/ And parking fines at hospitals". The following year Alex returned with 'Not Worth Hiding', an open letter to her 16-year-old self that details the journey to owning her sexuality, which arrived as Australia was debating marriage equality and became the unofficial anthem of the Vote Yes movement. It was played by none other than Elton John on his Beats 1 radio show and ranked at number 23 in tastemaker radio station triple j's Hottest 100, the publicly voted poll of the best songs of the year.

Along the way, Alex has taken her music to the stages of international festivals like The UK's Great Escape, Primavera Sound in Spain and Manchester's Neighbourhood Festival. At home in Australia, she's played Splendour in the Grass, triple j's One Night Stand and a sold out national headline tour of her own.

From the get go, Alex the Astronaut's music has dug into what makes us human. On The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing, she grapples with the multitudes of life on a bigger scale than ever before and emerges optimistic.