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Veruca Salt - IV Audio CD

A fair review of the Veruca Salt "IV" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Veruca Salt reviews here, or go back to the Veruca Salt tabs.

Veruca Salt Band: Veruca Salt
Title: IV
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Release Date: 2007-06-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: So Weird 2: Centipede 3: Innocent 4: Circular Trend 5: Perfect Love 6: Closer 7: Sick as Your Secrets 8: Wake Up Dead 9: Damage Done 10: Blissful Queen 11: Sun 12: Comes and Goes 13: Save You 14: Salt Flat Epic

Not as impressed, but not bad either...
It seems a little erractic and not as heartfelt. I must admit I was a little disappointed with this album compared to the other albums they have released. . . It's definately still Veruca Salt and worth adding to your collection, but don't expect too much from it.


Brilliance Shines Under the Radar
I didn't buy all the VS stuff before (I will now). There are certain cds in your life that are addictive, it's as if you're trying to figure out everything about it, and you can't stop listening and you try to listen to other s*&# and can't because it's just that good. I honestly only knew one song, from a long time ago ("Seether") and was curious when a friend gave me IV but not like some diehard salivating fan convulsing with gratitude. Well, I had no idea. Certain songs are just brilliant: So Weird, Centipede, Closer - which is phenomenal, Damage Done, Blissful Queen, Comes and Goes and the Anthematic Salt Flat Epic. I don't know. Maybe sometimes brilliance does shine under the radar. And it's the combination, it's the drums, the drums freak me out, her voice, the mix, the order, everything about it. I saw them when they were in LA and she was amazing. The whole band was. I don't know. I feel like this record has so much passion, soul, angst and it's like listening to an angry schoolgirl who's got something to say and gets every single emotion anyone's ever felt and wants to get in your face about it. All I can tell you is I'm now that diehard fan I didn't expect to become. Certain cds go through the rotation often (I'm someone who actually likes hearing an artist's entire vision, beginning to end, and so rare is it these days that that respect pays off). VS IV will join Aisles of Miles, Celebrity Skin, Mondo India, Jimi in Monterey, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Color and The Shape, Damn the Torpedos, Fever to Tell, Stardust. . . I just pray whomever I ever fall in love with likes it too. I see this as a dealbreaker.


V.Salt IV


I recommend you to buy "American Thighs" and "Eight Arms to Hold You" an this too. Veruca Salt is one of the Best Alternative Bands that i've heard.


Definitely worth the wait
I always thought of their music being likened to a female Smashing Pumpkins type grunge rock and the perfect subject of the angry feminine prior to Alannys Morrisette. I've loved Veruca Salt ever since American Thighs came out in 1994. After waiting so long after their last album, Veruca Salt continues to add to their great sound. I have to agree with the repeat listenings as I was not impressed with the first spin, but I've always had that problem with Veruca Salt. It took me forever to get to really enjoy Resolver, which I had til now, considered the best VS.

The raw, grungy emotion is there in songs like "Damage done" and "So Weird". Veruca Salt always seems to have a lighter song in the mix to throw you off the crashing wave of sound to a deep, dreamy and lyrically lifting groove and IV was no exception. "Sick as your secrets" has a wonderfully rhythmic guitar play and soft to hard female vocals from Louise Post as does "Salt Flat Epic". Its a very clean and well produced album and it was worth the wait.

However, I wold not recommend this for the first time Veruca Salt listener. My suggestion would be to start with American Thighs to get the first real bite into a truly extraordinary band. Veruca Salt IV delivers more each time I listen to it. .


Excellent Music!
There is lot of extraordinary groups that aren't the famous they should be (it may be selfish, but in a certain way it's also great that this happens because they produce excellent music that it isn't compromised; they are no commercial groups). . Veruca Salt is one of these great and non common Groups!.


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