Album: “Resolver [PA]”

Description

Personnel: Louise Post (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); Brian Liesegang (guitar, keyboards, bass, percussion, programming, background vocals); Kevin Tihista (guitar, bass, background vocals); Stephen Fitzpatrick, Scott Pazera (guitar); Eric Remschneider (cello); Suzanne Sokol (bass, background vocals); Jimmy Madla, Matt Walker (drums, percussion); Kelli Scott (drums); Scott Steiner, Chad Adams (programming). <p>Engineers: Chad Adams, Brian Liesegang, Joe Barresi. <p>Recorded in 1998 & 1999. <p>Veruca Salt has successfully weathered its personnel crises and returns as strong and defiant as ever. Sole remaining founding member Louise Post has started afresh with a new label and a new band to orchestrate her musical vision; the result is RESOLVER. <p>"The Same Person" opens gently with a mantra segueing into "Born Entertainer," featuring Post's trademark double-octave vocals and a clever Cheap Trick pun. Upbeat vocal harmonies contrast severely with the abrasive lyrics of "Best You Can Get," while the melancholy power-ballad "All Dressed Up" tells the tale of a woman trying to reinvent herself to please her lover, and finding the cause an empty and unrewarding one. "Used To Know Her" could pass for a lament over the departure of co-founder Nina Gordon. "Yeah Man" contrasts quiet verses with big, vocal harmony-heavy choruses, and "Disconnected" features Louise sounding desperately emotional, with lines such as "it's kind of scary when you're lover leaves you for a lucky star." While RESOLVER focuses on varying degrees of romantic discontent, Louise Post appears quite comfortable at the helm of a revitalized Veruca Salt.