R Is for Rocket (album)
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| R Is for Rocket | ||||
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| Released | October 3, 2025 | |||
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| Genre | Alternative Rock | |||
| Length | 38:19 | |||
| Label | Transgressive | |||
| Producer | Desi Scaglione | |||
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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]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100[4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Clash | 8/10[5] |
| DIY |    [6] |
| NME | [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
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 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 | |