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.
Reception
The album received a rating of 7.9 from Paste, whose reviewer Hayden Merrick called it as "a fantastically confident and truly complete debut." Clash 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".
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." The Fader described R Is for Rocket as "an album of ferociously defined, great guitar rock bangers." 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."
Track listing
Personnel Credits adapted from Bandcamp.
Rocket Alithea Tuttle – vocals, bass, keyboards Desi Scaglione – guitar, keyboards, production, engineering, mixing Baron Rinzler – guitar, keyboards Cooper Ladomade – drums
Additional contributors Henri Cash – additional engineering Oliver Roman – additional engineering (tracks 4–7, 9) Howie Weinberg – mastering
Charts + Chart performance for R Is for Rocket Chart (2025) Peakposition UK Independent Albums Breakers (OCC) 14
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