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- Nov 7, 2025As far as debut albums go, very few are as confident and sticky as R Is for Rocket.
- Oct 29, 2025Rocket shows far more sophisticated rhythmic interplay than some of their shoegaze-leaning contemporaries on this debut.
- Oct 13, 2025Confident, strident guitar music, it’s 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.
- Oct 13, 2025‘R Is For Rocket’ isn’t a record that breaks new ground nor delivers constant hits; but it is a promising debut that does a damn good job at what it set out to do: solid songs, played loud.
- Oct 13, 2025R is for Rocket is a fantastically confident and truly complete debut. It’s not perfect, but there’s nothing missing either.
- Oct 13, 2025Rocket wear their influences firmly on their sleeve and there are moments, particularly during the album’s back half, where the sheer poise and polish of the songs can have them veering dangerously close to being one-note; happily, the title track, with its noisy crescendo, rounds things off stylishly. There is much promise here.
