The triumphant return of Veruca Salt 2014/15

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After a two-fer single in 2014, today they've announced the release date (10 July) and track listing (14 songs!) for their new album Ghost Notes and shared two new songs.

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01 “The Gospel According To Saint Me”
02 “Black And Blonde”
03 “Eyes On You”
04 “Prince Of Wales”
05 “The Sound Of Leaving
06 “Love You Less”
07 “Laughing In The Sugar Bowl”
08 “Empty Bottle”
09 “Come Clean Dark Thing”
10 “I’m Telling You Now”
11 “Triage”
12 “Lost To Me”
13 “The Museum Of Broken Relationships”
14 “Alternica”

if this album is anything like the museum of broken relationships, i'm p scared

fun fact: i was playing American Thighs way too loud at 2am one recent evening (obviously this is one of the best albums ever recorded.) next morning i get an email from my downstairs neighbor that reads "PLEASE. i love Veruca Salt too. just not at 2 in the morning."

that is all.

i'm p scared

...of how much it's going to melt your face?

:( no, of how bad lyrics can possibly be, amongst other things

tbh I was too busy last year reveling in how great "Broken Relationships" and "It's Holy" sounded to even dig up the lyrics. But I'm not a lyrics person to begin with.

i could not even get through Broken Relationships. even sound-wise, just couldn't do it. i'll give It's Holy a try.

the second song ("gospel according to saint me") is AWESOME

also i think they're opener for at least some of their tour is my favorite band in new york rn, charly bliss

their* lol ugh

It's weird that "Broken Relationships" seems to be the villain, because it's the one track out of the 4 new ones I've heard that I think sounds the most like anything on American Thighs.

well that's a bad sign for me, i guess. but we'll see.

so stoked about this! i liked "broken relationships" a lot, tho i think it ended kind of abruptly/could've been longer. i LOVE "it's holy" because it's the "nina and louise joyfully reunite" song i had been waiting so many years for (but i'm betting you won't like the lyrics surm, it's v. earnest).

i'm curious about track 2 because nina had a b-side on her first solo album called "black and blonde" that came off like a veiled snipe at louise. the phrase seems to be meaningful to both of them since they use it again in "it's holy," so probably it's a new song and not a remake of the old one?

In the garden of rejection, the broken people go
There's a hook where you can hang your heart
Frame it on the wall and let it go
Halalala let it go

i think that's where i stopped listening.

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This ain't bad!

The triumphant not-bad return of Veruca Salt 2014/15

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YES!

This is astonishingly good.

(Gotta spell-check)

I hung up the phone
I could hardly wait to
Eliminate you
You hung up the phone
And without a word
We kicked it to the curb

great record

aww this version of "black and blonde" IS the one off nina's solo album, but they rewrote all the lyrics that ppl interpreted as being anti-louise <3 <3

this is really good!

The last track, Alternica, is cornball city. Is there a rating scale for cheese that I could apply here?

It's possible this may turn out to be my favorite album of theirs.

i preferred the chorus of the original "Black & Blonde" but then again I stan hard for that first Nina solo record, it's terrific, surprised she didn't end up doing country after it.

A couple of great keepers on this, at least ("Laughing in the Sugar Bowl", "Come Clean Dark Thing", "Triage"), but it really just makes me want to listen to "American Thighs" again. Which I did, and it still kicks ass.

Solo Nina is abysmal. I'm glad she had at least one fan, though.

One is about right. Paid an ungodly amount for it on import when it came out and six months later it was everywhere for one-tenth the price. The second album is awful AND boring though.

I have Nina's solo debut, but haven't listened to it in 15 years. Didn't even realize she made a follow-up.

solo nina has a fan in me. really really crazy about the tune "Now I can die"…then she became involved in the lamentable "hushed folkie rendition of gangsta classic" movement briefly the rage in the early file-sharing epoch…