| Auscultate | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | MVG Island | |||
| Salt chronology | ||||
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Auscultate is the debut album by the Swedish band Salt. [1] [2] Island Records released the album in the United States in 1996. [3]
The first single from the album was "Bluster", which was a modern rock radio hit. [4] [5] The band supported the album by touring with Local H. [6]
Singer Nina Ramsby wrote and sang in English, as she felt it was a more tuneful and more cryptic language. [4] She double tracked her vocals and guitar parts. [7] All of the songs are about personal relationships. [8]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [9] |
| The Evening Post | [10] |
| The Guardian | [11] |
| Knoxville News Sentinel | [12] |
| Los Angeles Times | [13] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10 [14] |
Trouser Press wrote that Ramsby "is a controlled, forceful singer with no perceptible accent, a complicated persona (the sketchy lyrics say a lot) and emotion to burn." [15] Spin thought that, "on 'Bluster', metal riffing pile-drives into flowing-pop choruses, while on 'So', doleful acoustic guitars buffet broken rhythms." [16] The Los Angeles Times deemed the album "jagged, volatile songs with just enough of an arty edge to add intrigue." [13] The Chicago Tribune opined that Salt "cobbles together skewed tunes with prickly, saw-toothed riffs, tuneful pop melodies and agitated power chords." [17]
The Knoxville News Sentinel determined that Salt "embodies the vitriol typical of progressive music's more contentious woman-led bands... But Ramsby, backed by bassist Daniel Ewerman and drummer Jim Tegman, also reveals a subtlety not often heard from the likes of Hole." [12] The Evening Post called the band a "trio of brutal power and uncommon melodic ability," writing: "Driven hard by a muscle-packed rhythm section, the band tempers tough cred with some deft off-centre flourishes, most of them courtesy of Ramsby's slacker-goddess vocals and her gender-bending stiff-arm guitar playing." [10] The Guardian opined that "ringing choruses help a bit—the mantric repetition of 'You punish me as a boy' on 'Honour Me' is a beaut—but there's nothing here to distinguish them from the competition." [11]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Impro" | |
| 2. | "Honour Me" | |
| 3. | "Beauty" | |
| 4. | "God Damn Carneval" | |
| 5. | "Obsession" | |
| 6. | "Bluster" | |
| 7. | "Lids" | |
| 8. | "So" | |
| 9. | "Witty" | |
| 10. | "So I Ached" | |
| 11. | "Flutter" | |
| 12. | "Sense" | |
| 13. | "Undressed" |
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