Rocket is the Primitive Radio Gods' debut album, released on June 18, 1996, by Columbia Records.

[2] "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" was a hit single.

"[3] Pitchfork writer Ryan Schreiber said, "At any rate, you don't want Rocket in your record collection now or ever since the music sounds like a third-rate, decaffeinated version of Ned's Atomic Dustbin and because, by reading Pitchfork, you've already proven you have better taste than that (I hope)."

Schreiber gave it an extremely negative rating of 1.2/10, falling under "Awful, not a single pleasant track".

However, Schreiber wrote that "Phone Booth" "as a single, is going to sell like the Rubik's Cube.