Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts explained

Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts
Type:Album
Artist:Velocity Girl
Cover:Velocity_Girl_Gilded.jpg
Released:March 12, 1996
Genre:Indie rock, indie pop
Label:Sub Pop[1]
Producer:Clif Norrell
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Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts is the third, and final, studio album by indie rock band Velocity Girl.[2] [3] 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.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts "an uninspired album of relatively straight-ahead mainstreamed pop."[4] Entertainment Weekly wrote that the band "offer a few spritely, memorable melodies featuring happy, strumming guitars behind boy-girl harmonies."[5] 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."[6] 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)."[7]

Track listing

  1. "Gilded Stars" (3:22)
  2. "Nothing" (2:46)
  3. "Just Like That" (2:34)
  4. "Same Old City" (3:49)
  5. "Go Coastal" (3:18)
  6. "Lose Something" (2:23)
  7. "It's Not For You" (3:00)
  8. "Zealous Heart" (3:14)
  9. "The Only Ones" (3:04)
  10. "Finest Hour" (2:56)
  11. "Blue In Spite" (2:37)
  12. "Formula 1 Throwaway" (3:31)
  13. "For The Record" (2:40)
  14. "One Word" (3:36)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts. Sub Pop Records.
  2. Web site: Velocity Girl | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Web site: Terminal Velocity. Christopher. Porter. September 13, 1996. Washington City Paper.
  4. Web site: Velocity Girl . Trouser Press . 26 February 2021.
  5. Web site: Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts. EW.com.
  6. Web site: Velocity Girl Picks Up Speed. MTV News.
  7. Web site: Velocity Girl Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts Sub Pop. May 7, 1996. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.

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