Premiere: Rex Tycoon Shares New Monitor “Rock ‘N Roll Star”
New Album No Restrict 2 Luv is Out August 1st by way of 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 vitality, and durable rock riffs. The band acquired 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 document, “After years of recording EPs and singles in our basements, No Restrict 2 Luv appears like our official opening assertion to the world. We traveled to Bloomington, IN to document with our good buddy Damion Schiralli at Russian Recording the place a few of our favourite data had been made at. It sounds cliche, however the greatest theme working by means of quite a lot of the songs in a technique 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 potentialities of it. The world is merciless and feels mind-numbingly arduous to be part of today, and typically it feels just like the love we’ve for one another is all that we’ve 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. Immediately, forward of the total launch, Rex Tycoon is sharing an early take heed to the document’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 tune of the identical title. Though Rex Tycoon’s “Rock ‘N Roll Star” will not be a canopy, it does serve the same function on their debut album, providing a blistering salvo and assertion of intent. The tune fees ahead from its opening moments, pushed onward by Stalker’s propulsive drumming and Tiberio’s guitar. As the total 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 combination, lacing the monitor with a way of untamed abandon that step by step 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 recent 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 grew to become clear to me fairly early on that this needs to be the opening monitor for the document. It’s a fairly simple rock tune written from the identical place of need and frustration that I’m positive lots of people able just like mine really feel: they need to be a rock and roll star. I’ve at all times cherished it when rock bands discuss rock music, being in rock bands, enjoying rock exhibits, and so forth. of their songs, and so this was a tune written to provide myself an excuse to try this. As a gap monitor, I feel it units a pleasant precedent for what’s to come back on the remainder of the document and serves as an awesome introduction to the band.”
Try the tune beneath. No Restrict 2 Luv is due out in all places tomorrow, August 1st, by way of Smartpunk Information.