No Rocket Required


No Rocket Required is the second studio album by English rock band the Moonlandingz. It was released on 25 April 2025 by Transgressive Records in vinyl, CD and digital formats.

Background

Released eight years after the band's debut album, Interplanetary Class Classics, No Rocket Required incorporates elements of rock, pop, funk and disco. The album consists of ten tracks with a total runtime of approximately forty minutes, and features contributions from Ewen Bremner, Nadine Shah and Iggy Pop. Its first and second singles, "The Sign of a Man" and "Give Me More", were released on 21 January and 24 February 2025.

Reception

John Murphy of MusicOMH rated the album four stars and compared it to the band's debut project, Interplanetary Class Classic, noting the similarities in the two albums, such as the "riotous, inventive, scuzzy rock-synth tracks with an impressive cast list of guest artists."
Louder Than War assigned it a rating of four out of five, stating "No Rocket Required finds the remaining crew in fine fettle, with plenty to say and as with their first offering, a host of willing accomplices from either end of pop's space-time continuum." BrooklynVegan, in its review of the album, commented that No Rocket Required is reflective of the band's "tender side" and "new maturity".
Andrew Perry of Mojo gave the album a three-star rating and noted it as leaning "more towards ironised easy listening and '80s disco, topped with compulsively gut-churning lyrics." Dork, rating the album four out of five, referred to it as "an album that's both a critique of modern life and a celebration of its absurdities."

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

The Moonlandingz

Additional contributors