Premiere: Rex Tycoon Shares New Observe “Rock ‘N Roll Star”
New Album No Restrict 2 Luv is Out August 1st through Smartpunk Information
Jul 31, 2025
Tomorrow, punk outfit Rex Tycoon are set to share their debut full-length album, No Restrict 2 Luv, hitting on a no-frills mixture of melodic energy pop sensibilities, scrappy punk power, and durable rock riffs. The band bought their begin with vocalist Austin Reesman, guitarist Joey Tiberio, bassist Keith Tucker, and drummer Jared Stalker jamming and self-recording in Tucker and Stalker’s Pittsburgh basement, debuting with their 2020 EP, Partial Frames. Within the years since, they’ve shared one other pair of EPs—2023’s What’s Good and final yr’s Money Reward—earlier than recording their forthcoming LP in studio, capturing their rowdy basement punk roots in a brand new setting.
The band says of the report, “After years of recording EPs and singles in our basements, No Restrict 2 Luv seems like our official opening assertion to the world. We traveled to Bloomington, IN to report with our good pal Damion Schiralli at Russian Recording the place a few of our favourite data had been made at. It sounds cliche, however the largest theme operating via a whole lot of the songs in a method or one other is love. The great thing about it, the mystique of it, the ache that comes with it, and above all else, the limitless prospects of it. The world is merciless and feels mind-numbingly laborious to be part of today, and typically it feels just like the love we have now for one another is all that we have now left to carry on to.”
The band have already shared their lead single, “Jesus Drives,” adopted by one other new monitor, “Chook on the Bricks,” earlier this month. As we speak, forward of the complete launch, Rex Tycoon is sharing an early hearken to the report’s opening monitor, “Rock ‘N Roll Star,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.
31 years in the past, Oasis opened up their 1994 debut, Positively Possibly, with a track of the identical identify. Though Rex Tycoon’s “Rock ‘N Roll Star” just isn’t a canopy, it does serve an identical goal on their debut album, providing a blistering salvo and assertion of intent. The track expenses ahead from its opening moments, pushed onward by Stalker’s propulsive drumming and Tiberio’s guitar. As the complete band enters, the monitor coheres right into a towering tribute to being younger, broke, and dreaming of a rock star fantasy. Shouted gang chants, crashing cymbals, and gnarled guitar solos all careen into the combo, lacing the monitor with a way of untamed abandon that regularly builds till it hits an unbridled, distortion-laden apex and rapidly flames out. The outcomes handle to take a well-worn rock ‘n roll dream and make it really feel contemporary and exhilarating once more.
Reesman says of the monitor, “This was one of many final songs that was written for the album within the months main as much as recording. After I began writing it, it turned clear to me fairly early on that this ought to be the opening monitor for the report. It’s a reasonably simple rock track written from the identical place of need and frustration that I’m certain lots of people ready just like mine really feel: they need to be a rock and roll star. I’ve at all times beloved it when rock bands speak about rock music, being in rock bands, taking part in rock reveals, and so on. of their songs, and so this was a track written to provide myself an excuse to do this. As a gap monitor, I believe it units a pleasant precedent for what’s to come back on the remainder of the report and serves as an awesome introduction to the band.”
Try the track under. No Restrict 2 Luv is due out in every single place tomorrow, August 1st, through Smartpunk Information.
