Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 12, 1996 | |||
Genre | Indie rock, indie pop | |||
Label | Sub Pop [1] | |||
Producer | Clif Norrell [2] | |||
Velocity Girl chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [5] |
Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts is the third, and final, studio album by indie rock band Velocity Girl. [6] [7] It was released in 1996 on Sub Pop.
"Nothing" was the band's last music video, and was released on a single with the non-album track "Anatomy Of A Gutless Wonder". Two other songs, "Same Old City" and "Finest Hour", appeared on the compilations Golden Jam: General Mills' Golden Grahams and That Virtua Feeling: Sub Pop And Sega Get Together, respectively.[ citation needed]
Trouser Press called Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts "an uninspired album of relatively straight-ahead mainstreamed pop." [2] Entertainment Weekly wrote that the band "offer a few spritely, memorable melodies featuring happy, strumming guitars behind boy-girl harmonies." [8] MTV deemed the album full of "radiocatchy punk-pop songs with easy melodies and hooks galore, coupled with intelligent, decipherable lyrics that, if not always profound, manage to steer clear of pop cliché." [9] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that Velocity Girl "makes a convincing case for writing coherent, intelligent pop songs that continue to sound as if they were recorded in someone's basement (albeit with excellent equipment)." [10]
Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 12, 1996 | |||
Genre | Indie rock, indie pop | |||
Label | Sub Pop [1] | |||
Producer | Clif Norrell [2] | |||
Velocity Girl chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [5] |
Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts is the third, and final, studio album by indie rock band Velocity Girl. [6] [7] It was released in 1996 on Sub Pop.
"Nothing" was the band's last music video, and was released on a single with the non-album track "Anatomy Of A Gutless Wonder". Two other songs, "Same Old City" and "Finest Hour", appeared on the compilations Golden Jam: General Mills' Golden Grahams and That Virtua Feeling: Sub Pop And Sega Get Together, respectively.[ citation needed]
Trouser Press called Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts "an uninspired album of relatively straight-ahead mainstreamed pop." [2] Entertainment Weekly wrote that the band "offer a few spritely, memorable melodies featuring happy, strumming guitars behind boy-girl harmonies." [8] MTV deemed the album full of "radiocatchy punk-pop songs with easy melodies and hooks galore, coupled with intelligent, decipherable lyrics that, if not always profound, manage to steer clear of pop cliché." [9] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that Velocity Girl "makes a convincing case for writing coherent, intelligent pop songs that continue to sound as if they were recorded in someone's basement (albeit with excellent equipment)." [10]