Album: “Resolver”

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). Engineers: Chad Adams, Brian Liesegang, Joe Barresi. Recorded in 1998 & 1999. Composer: Louise Post. Veruca Salt: Stephen Fitzpatrick, Scott Pazera (guitar); Eric Remschneider (cello); Suzanne Sokol, Kevin Tihista, Louise Post, Brian Liesegang (bass guitar); Jimmy Madla, Matt Walker, Kellii Scott (drums). 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. "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.