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.
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 wonâÂÂt 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."
Credits adapted from Bandcamp.