IV | 
 enlarge | Artist: Veruca Salt
Label: Sympathy 4 the R.I.
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 81986
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 780
UPC: 790276078024
EAN: 0790276078024
ASIN: B000HCO854
Release Date: September 12, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | So Weird | | • | Centipede | | • | Innocent | | • | Circular Trend | | • | Perfect Love | | • | Closer | | • | Sick As Your Secrets | | • | Wake Up Dead | | • | Damage Done | | • | Blissful Queen | | • | The Sun | | • | Comes and Goes | | • | Save You | | • | Salt Flat Epic |
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Album Description
Veruca Salt skyrocketed to fame in 1994 with the alternative radio mega-hit "Seether" off their Minty Fresh debut album "American Thighs," and followed with an equally successful sophomore effort, 1997's "8 Arms to Hold You." After co-founder Nina Gordon left to pursue a solo career, lead singer/guitarist Louise Post reformed the band with guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick and drummer Kellii Scott, to produce 2000's critically acclaimed "Resolver," described by Chicago Sun Times' Jim DeRogatis as "the best album to be released under the band's Willy Wonka-inspired moniker, as well as one of the strongest albums of the year ... a galvanizing rock 'n' roll statement in a pop-dominated time." The success of Veruca Salt's 2005 EP "Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things" and its accompanying US tour secured the band a record deal with indie label powerhouse, Sympathy for the Record Industry. Now six years after Resolver, Post and Fitzpatrick have been joined by bassist Nicole! Fiorentino (Radio Vago), and rejoined by drummer Kellii Scott (Failure, Blinker the Star, Enemy), to create the fourth and latest full length Veruca Salt album, "IV," which is slated for release in September 2006. Produced by Rae DiLeo (Filter, Army of Anyone), "IV" features the classic heavy guitar thunder, pop sensibility, and soul-wrenching lyrics of previous Veruca Salt efforts, coupled with the stirring musical maturation of Louise Post and Co. Songs written and performed live to worldwide acclaim over the past six years (such as "Blissful Queen," "Save You," and "The Sun") have been combined with powerful new material, and the resulting effort promises to be the greatest Veruca Salt album to date. TRACKS: So Weird Centipede Closer The Sun Perfect Love Blissful Queen Wake Up Dead Save You Circular Trend Sick as Your Secrets Comes and Goes Damage Done Salt Flat Epic
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 Brilliance Shines Under the Radar August 18, 2007
C. Greenburg (LA, CA)
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 didn't buy all the VS stuff before (I will now). 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 August 1, 2007
Sebastian Tassisto (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Veruca Salt is one of the Best Alternative Bands that i've heard.
I recommend you to buy "American Thighs" and "Eight Arms to Hold You" an this too
Definitely worth the wait July 16, 2007
CPT DB (Fort Riley, KS USA)
I've loved Veruca Salt ever since American Thighs came out in 1994. 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. 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! June 12, 2007
Alberto Gomez Luna Leon (Mexico City)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
Not living up to their potential? April 18, 2007
K. Hubbard (Clarksville, TN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been a Veruca Salt fan for a long time. I drove from Kentucky, to Chicago, to Champaign, IL and back to see them on tour in 2005. I loved Resolver, and the EP that they sold on their 2005 tour. I was greatly anticipating the new album.
When I purchased the cd, I was beyond disappointed. I thought the band sounded amateur, not like it was fronted by a seasoned music veteran. I would never guess that the woman singing on this album was the same woman singing on Resolver or the earlier albums. The only new song that I really enjoy is 'Circular Trend'.
I was glad to see that Blissful Queen was put on the album since I loved the demo, but I was confused why they put two songs from the just released EP on there. I thought that to be a waste of track space, any diehard VS fan knows that they have a large selection of demos and unreleased tracks that could've gone on the album instead. Also, since the EP and the album sound so different, they stick out like a sore thumb.
However, if they did a show within a hundred miles of me, I would drop everything to see them in a heartbeat. Louise and Stephen still put on an incredible live show.
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