Public Opinion & Rex Tycoon Team Up On New Single “Bug”

Public Opinion and Rex Tycoon have teamed up to provide a cure for the end of summer blues with their new collaborative single, Bug, that is out today via Convulse Records. The track is a sub-three minute dose of fuzz and hooks that perfectly captures the personalities of both bands by combining Public Opinion‘s biting punk delivery with Rex Tycoon‘s jangly melodicism.

“We met and played a couple shows with Rex Tycoon on tour this past April and since then I’d known that I wanted to do a song or a record with them. I originally did a voice notes demo of some guitar parts for another song that I immediately sent to Austin with a text saying, ‘This isn’t very PO, but it could possibly work for Rex.’ That song wound up being left on the cutting room floor, but we were both pretty into the idea of working together. Fast forward to this summer, and I’d started writing this other, softer song that I thought we could make sound great together. Sent another voice memo out, the Rex boys were into it, and we planned on making a session work. We had a tour coming up with a Pittsburgh date, leaving us the perfect chance to record the track all together. PO drove overnight after our Brooklyn show, got up in the early afternoon and tracked it with Keith from Rex. I personally couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.” (Public Opinion vocalist Kevin Hart)