Rock & Roll Submarine is an album by alternative rock band Urge Overkill, released in 2011. It was their first album in sixteen years.
Critical reception Spin wrote: "Calcifying their trademark lounge leer into a dead-eyed glare, singer-guitarists Nash Kato and Ed 'King' Roeser ply curdled Bad Company riffs and a seedy, confessional air, serving up shit cocktails to anyone foolish enough to swallow ’90s nostalgia." The A.V. Club wrote that the band "keeps the Nuge-style riffage on Rock & Roll Submarine rooted in the realities of basement-show grime, tamping down the old stadium-ruling ambitions with wanton sloppiness and purposefully duller hooks." The Washington Post wrote that if the album "displays less attitude than Urge’s ’90s work, that’s probably because [Eddie] Roeser has gradually supplanted the flashier [Nash] Kato as the principal songwriter." The New Yorker thought that the Urge Overkill of Rock & Roll Submarine "offers a more raw sound, but with tightly arranged and raspingly sung anthems."
Track listing "Mason/Dixon"—2:58 "Rock & Roll Submarine"—4:01 "Effigy"—3:44 "Poison Flower"—2:32 "Little Vice"—3:14 "Thought Balloon"—4:13 "Quiet Person"—3:23 "She's My Ride"—3:33 "End of Story"—3:24 "The Valiant"—3:45 "Niteliner"—2:21 "Touched to a Cut"—2:09
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