Welcome again to Origins, our recurring collection that provides artists an area to interrupt down all the things that went into their newest launch. In the present day, Los Angeles quartet Rocket dig into the themes behind their new track, “Take Your Purpose.”
The 4 members of Rocket have identified one another since childhood, and that sibling-like camaraderie is nicely on show when watching the band dwell. Considered one of our rising artists to look at in 2025, Rocket play terribly loudly and lend a type of over-active vibrancy to their chosen genres of shoegaze and slacker rock — which often have extra introverted, distanced shows. Their songs could be comforting like thick blankets, however additionally they rock out so onerous which you can virtually envision an excessive sports activities compilation enjoying over them.
Clearly, the members of Rocket are fluent in the identical sonic language, and it’s a pleasant function of their new track, “Take Your Purpose.” The monitor arrives because the Los Angeles four-piece announce their signing to Transgressive Data, which shall be reissuing their 2023 debut EP Variations of You on April 18th. The track additionally comes with a music video directed by Noah Neal and A.J. Incammicia, through which somebody actually takes their goal at bassist and vocalist Alithea Tuttle, shoots her with an arrow, and the opposite three members of the band determine if they need to take her to the hospital (they need to).
The track oozes cool, and consider it or not, was one of many first tracks that Rocket ever recorded. The band discovered inspiration from shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine; particularly the Loveless reduce “Come In Alone,” in addition to R.E.M.’s jangle-pop basic “Shiny Completely satisfied Folks.” However in keeping with guitarist Desi Scaglione, the ultimate product sounds fairly removed from these two tracks, and as an alternative blends the quartet’s numerous urges and impulses right into a extra “upbeat, heavy, guitar-driven” type. “We all the time preferred the concept of getting a track that has very minimal chord adjustments with a climbing vocal melody within the verses, which is one thing we do rather a lot,” says Scaglione. “I believe we nailed that on this track.”
Past the sonic references, nonetheless, Rocket had been impressed by ginger-turmeric photographs, Foo Fighters’ “I’ll Stick Round” music video, and a “very particular gasoline station” in Cellular, Alabama. Take a look at Rocket’s new track “Take Your Purpose” under, and skim on for his or her Origins breakdown.
Shoe
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“Take Your Purpose” is likely one of the first Rocket songs we ever recorded. It was one of many first songs we ever performed collectively as a band, and should you requested any of us what it was known as, we’d all say the identical factor: “Shoe.” There’s no deeper which means, we simply known as it “shoe.” Each track has a placeholder title and that was most likely the very first thing we checked out and mentioned no matter.
After going by way of a number of iterations within the recording course of, re-recording it once more in our observe house, after which once more at 64 Sound, we lastly landed on the model recorded at Studio 606. All of the whereas, the track itself by no means modified that a lot, It simply by no means actually felt proper to launch till now.
Rollin’ with the Punches
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The video concept happened moderately on the final minute. We spent the previous few months of 2024 touring principally nonstop with little or no downtime, so we had been totally in tour mode by the point we would have liked the music video carried out.
As quickly as we completed touring, we needed to mentally swap gears into ending the brand new music and all the things that comes together with it. For the primary time, it felt like we needed to compartmentalize our lives in that method, which was kinda bizarre.
The thought for “Take Your Purpose” is just a little cheeky and just a little on the nostril, with somebody actually firing arrows at Alithea whereas she performs. The entire concept is that we’re freaking out in regards to the arrows however she’s fully unfazed, so we simply roll with it and hold going. It’s kinda harking back to our lives on tour: shit occurs and stuff goes fallacious and you may both freak out or simply hold going and discover methods to have enjoyable. This previous 12 months, our van broke down, all of us received so sick that we needed to cancel a present, and one million different little issues that make being on the street difficult, however we stored going and had enjoyable whereas doing it.
Satsuma Chevron on the 65 Freeway
Satsuma Chevron Station in Alabama, picture through Fb
Nestled within the woods simply exterior of Cellular, Alabama off the 65 freeway is a Chevron gasoline station that could be very particular. From the surface, it seems like all previous gasoline station you’d cease the van at on tour. However inside, they’re cooking up a few of the greatest ribs and mac and cheese we’ve ever had. We stumbled throughout it by full accident. We stopped like we usually do and received gasoline and once we went inside, the type woman provided us a few of their scrumptious selfmade mac and cheese. It felt like a fever dream the primary time we went however since then, it appears like house.
Ginger-Turmeric Pictures
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Ginger-turmeric Pictures. No one is aware of if they really do something or not, however generally the placebo is all it’s good to really feel higher. The street could be robust, it takes a toll in your physique, it may chew you up and spit you out, and generally all it’s good to really feel grounded is a pleasant heat hug out of your previous pal ginger.
Foo Fighters’ “I’ll Stick Round” Music Video
We’ve all the time liked watching music movies. They’ve type of misplaced their significance within the final five-ish years and other people have a tendency to not need to take note of something over one minute lengthy, which is a disgrace. Foo movies are a few of our favorites as a result of they don’t take themselves critically and appear very low finances, however are nonetheless fascinating.
It’s an ethos that we attempt to keep in ourselves. Not taking issues too critically.