R Is for Rocket (album)

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R Is for Rocket
Rocket - R Is for Rocket.jpg
Studio album by
Rocket
ReleasedOctober 3, 2025 (2025-10-03)
Studio
Length38:19
Label Transgressive
Producer Desi Scaglione

R Is for Rocket is the debut studio album by American rock band Rocket. It was released on October 3, 2025, via Transgressive in LP, cassette, CD and digital formats. [2] [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Clash 8/10 [5]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Paste 7.9/10 [8]

The album received a rating of 7.9 from Paste, whose reviewer Hayden Merrick called it as "a fantastically confident and truly complete debut." [8] Clash 's Robin Murray noted it as "a record that blends hugely effective songwriting with wicked production values, granting their work a crisp 90s-adjacent sheen that refuses to sacrifice their raw live endeavours," which is "potent, concise, forceful, but also subtle when required" and "confident, strident guitar music". [5]

In a four-star review for NME , Spencer Hughes referred to the album as "a promising debut that does a damn good job at what it set out to do: solid songs, played loud." [7] The Fader described R Is for Rocket as "an album of ferociously defined, great guitar rock bangers." [3] Abby Jones, in her "album of the week" review for Stereogum , remarked, "You won’t find many quiet moments across R Is For Rocket, but it strikes a satisfying balance between loud and melodic, its mixes full of cathartic noise without compromising detail or vibrancy." [2]

Track listing

R Is for Rocket track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Choice"3:24
2."Act Like Your Title"2:19
3."Crossing Fingers"3:22
4."One Million"3:47
5."Another Second Chance"5:05
6."Pretending"2:37
7."Crazy"3:14
8."Number One Fan"3:51
9."Wide Awake"4:09
10."R Is for Rocket"6:31
Total length:38:19

Personnel

Credits adapted from Bandcamp. [1]

Rocket

Additional contributors

Charts

Chart performance for R Is for Rocket
Chart (2025)Peak
position
UK Independent Albums Breakers (OCC) [9] 14

References

  1. 1 2 "R is for Rocket | Rocket". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on August 20, 2025. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Jones, Abby (2025-09-30). "Album of the Week: Rocket R Is for Rocket". Stereogum . Retrieved 2025-10-04.
  3. 1 2 Wang, Steffanee (October 3, 2025). "R is for Rocket and really great guitar rock". The Fader . Retrieved 2025-10-04.
  4. ↑ "Reviews for R Is For Rocket by Rocket". Metacritic . Retrieved October 18, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Murray, Robin; Murray, Robin (2025-10-02). "Rocket – R Is For Rocket". Clash . Retrieved 2025-10-04.
  6. ↑ Goggins, Joe (3 October 2025). "Rocket - R Is For Rocket". DIY . Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  7. 1 2 Hughes, Spencer (2025-10-03). "Rocket – R Is For Rocket review: a satisfying entry in the '90s alt revival". NME . Retrieved 2025-10-04.
  8. 1 2 Merrick, Hayden (October 1, 2025). "Rocket: R is for Rocket Album Review". Paste . Retrieved 2025-10-04.
  9. ↑ "Official Independent Albums Breakers Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
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