Patrick Doval leans all the way into sci-fi romance on “Rocket to The Moon,” due September 26th and featuring drummer Pete Parada, formerly of The Offspring. The song and its accompanying video tell a fairly literal story: Doval builds a rocket, travels to the moon, falls for a mysterious robot he finds there, and brings her back to Earth, leaving the question of whether she actually makes it hanging at the end. It’s a genuinely odd premise for a rock song, searching the universe for someone you’ve dreamed about since childhood, but Doval commits to it fully rather than treating it as a gimmick.
The vocal style here leans noticeably into David Lee Roth territory, and the song as a whole seems to be reaching for that same 80s rock feel, big, theatrical, and a little larger than life. It’s a swing that pays off. The performance captures that era’s sense of showmanship convincingly rather than just borrowing the aesthetic on the surface, which matters for a song built around a premise this outlandish; it needs a vocal delivery confident enough to sell the concept without winking at the audience too hard, and that’s exactly what’s here.
Doval’s catalogue already runs six albums deep along with more than 25 music videos, and that visual instinct shows in how fully realized the “Rocket to The Moon” concept feels rather than half-baked. With his song “Crush” also set to land in an upcoming Hollywood feature later this year, Doval’s cinematic ambitions are clearly paying off on multiple fronts, and this single is a fun, fully committed example of an artist willing to chase a strange idea all the way to the moon and back.
