VERUCA SALT - Resolver (Parental Advisory)
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Artist: VERUCA SALTEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
CD Release Date: 2004-10-03
Music Label: Beyond
Soundtracks:
- The Same Person
- Born Entertainer
- Best You Can Get
- Wet Suit
- Yeah Man
- Imperfectly
- Officially Dead
- Only You Know
- Disconnected
- All Dressed Up
- Used To Know Her
- Pretty Boys
- Hellraiser
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Free Music Review: Imperfectly Perfect!
Hit: 5 Stars
After listening to RESOLVER, I realized that I really didn't know the difference between Louise and Nina. Resolver sets the record STRAIGHT. I knew that there had to be a reason behind my obsession with tough-as-nails tunes like "Straight", "Don't Make Me Prove It", "One Last Time" and "Victrola" from days of VS past. That reason is one Ms.Louise Post, whose now-unmistakeable presence literally pours out gallons of raw, tortured, and furious emotion throughout this entire musical adventure. She uses her many voices to convey very honest displays of love, hatred, and a new-found fragility which shrinks and explodes over the course of the disc's 13 tracks. The opener "The Same Person" starts the show with an almost Nina Presson (of the Cardigans) vocal style of which I have never heard from Ms. Post, surrounded by sweet strings and piano, which seem to tempt the first-time listener into believing that she has changed her musical personality into a soft-spoken innocent child... until "Born Entertainer" rips through the illusion with a rock solid PUNCH! The intro's powerful sliding guitar/bass line manages to break fresh, new ground, then trademark VS eighth-note riffs and layered back-up vocals appear which provide a cathartic release of familiar electricity. "Best You Can get" keeps the party going with extremely cute opening lyrics, more layered vocal harmonies, and a tricky bass line. "Wet Suit" begins a formula trend of calm, quiet verses and loud, shouted choruses which recur later in "Used to Know Her" and "Hellraiser". "Yeah Man", one of the strongest songs on the disc, shows the pop side of VS, and Louise exposes a vulnerability in tunes like "Disconnected", "All Dressed Up", and "Imperfectly" never heard before. "Pretty Boys" is soft and pleasant from begining to end which features more vocal harmonies which add more flavor to the disc. I wouldn't insist that this is the best Veruca Salt album, but it most certainly is the most focused and honest to date. A certain element is lost without Nina, but her departure has allowed Louise the freedom to develop creatively and to transform into many different shapes and colors. Nina does display an effective use of her vocal talents on her solo effort (Tonight and the rest of my Life), but I feel that the genre she has chosen is far too pure for the rock chick that she really is, appears to be somewhat phony, and difficult to listen to after the excellence of "Badway". It is just too slow to hold my attention and I just can't seem to make it all the way through the whole disc. Resolver has much more to offer and hopefully will be followed by more Veruca Salt recordings (and tours) in the future. This band is GREAT live.
Resolver (Parental Advisory) Poster
Veruca Salt was one of the greatest rock soap operas since Fleetwood Mack or Husker Du, as longtime friends Louise Post and Nina Gordon had a bitter falling out over stolen boyfriends, stabbed backs, and general unpleasantness. Gordon set out on a solo career, while Post dug in her heels, retained the Veruca Salt name, assembled a new band, and recorded the third Veruca album, 2000's Resolver. The friendship with Gordon wasn't the only severed relationship Post endured between 1997's Eight Arms to Hold You and Resolver -- She also broke up with Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl. Now, the title of the record may suggest that she's trying to resolve her feelings toward these breakups, but the album plays as relentless, unmitigated stream of bile. Never once does Post let up her attack on Gordon and Grohl, except for when it loses a little focus and becomes a vicious attack on the world in general. All of this is set to music that's halfway between American Thighs and Blow it Out Your Ass and completely dated in 2000. By any conventional yardstick, this does not result in a good album, but it surely is a fascinating listen. There's something unintentionally strange and perverse about the record, like being assaulted by a half-forgotten, half-drunken acquaintance, intent of filling you in on every single excruciating detail of their miserable life -- at top volume, no less.Veruca Salt circulated through the late-'90s barrage of one-hit alt-rock bands with the single "Seether," and the number of critics placing bets in favor of the band's longevity was miniscule. But upon the departure of member Nina Gordon, lead singer Louise Post revamped the group, and Resolver beat the odds. The album follows the lead of fellow Chicagoans the Smashing Pumpkins with its monstrous guitars squalling against an explosive rhythm section. This tsunami of sound finds a strange bedfellow with Post's vocals. Immediately she seems a sweet, fuzzy urchin, but her abrasive, sexually charged lyrics and grunge-suited scream reveal a wildly rabid kitten with piercing claws and enormous teeth. Resolver's combination of eerie Pixies-influenced aggression ("Used to Know Her") and Billy Corgan bombast ("Born Entertainer") makes for a supremely satisfying head bang. Best of all, the new and resoundingly improved Veruca Salt have developed a penchant for slightly quieter songs like "Disconnected," where Post's utterly unseething, almost exhausted voice carves a wide space between unproduced drums and orchestral instrumentation, resulting in a moment of fierce beauty. --Beth Massa
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