Premiere: Rex Tycoon Shares New Monitor “Rock ‘N Roll Star”
New Album No Restrict 2 Luv is Out August 1st by way of Smartpunk Data
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 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 appears like our official opening assertion to the world. We traveled to Bloomington, IN to report with our good good friend Damion Schiralli at Russian Recording the place a few of our favourite information had been made at. It sounds cliche, however the greatest theme working by way of quite a 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 potentialities of it. The world is merciless and feels mind-numbingly arduous to be part of lately, and typically it feels just like the love we now have for one another is all that we now have left to carry on to.”
The band have already shared their lead single, “Jesus Drives,” adopted by one other new observe, “Fowl on the Bricks,” earlier this month. As we speak, forward of the total launch, Rex Tycoon is sharing an early hearken to the report’s opening observe, “Rock ‘N Roll Star,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.
31 years in the past, Oasis opened up their 1994 debut, Undoubtedly Perhaps, with a music of the identical identify. Though Rex Tycoon’s “Rock ‘N Roll Star” just isn’t a canopy, it does serve an analogous function on their debut album, providing a blistering salvo and assertion of intent. The music costs ahead from its opening moments, pushed onward by Stalker’s propulsive drumming and Tiberio’s guitar. As the total band enters, the observe 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 observe with a way of untamed abandon that steadily builds till it hits an unbridled, distortion-laden apex and shortly 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 observe, “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 observe for the report. It’s a reasonably easy rock music written from the identical place of want and frustration that I’m certain lots of people able much like mine really feel: they wish to be a rock and roll star. I’ve all the time cherished it when rock bands discuss rock music, being in rock bands, taking part in rock exhibits, and so forth. of their songs, and so this was a music written to provide myself an excuse to try this. As a gap observe, I believe it units a pleasant precedent for what’s to return on the remainder of the report and serves as a terrific introduction to the band.”
Try the music beneath. No Restrict 2 Luv is due out in every single place tomorrow, August 1st, by way of Smartpunk Data.
