Resolver (Veruca Salt album)

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Resolver
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 16, 2000
Recorded1999–2000
Genre Alternative rock, grunge [1]
Length47:56
Label Beyond
Producer Brian Liesegang
Veruca Salt chronology
Eight Arms to Hold You
(1997)
Resolver
(2000)
Officially Dead
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [4]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Village Voice A− [8]
Wall of Sound 33/100 [9]

Resolver is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt. [10] [11] It was released on May 16, 2000, on Beyond Records, followed by an Australian release on December 6, 2002. The album was the first for the band after the departure of all the founding members but Louise Post, who became the band's sole frontwoman. [12] [13]

Contents

Like their previous album, Eight Arms to Hold You , the title is inspired by The Beatles; in this case, a play on the title of their 1966 album Revolver . [3]

Production

The album was produced by Brian Liesegang. [14]

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune wrote that Resolver is the album "in which Post and Veruca Salt blow past the years of snide hipster innuendo that somehow they just weren't good enough, a pop concoction cashing in on a trend (female-fronted alternative-rock bands) with a formulaic, bubblegum version of a once-revolutionary sound (the soft-loud dynamics, whispered verses and raging choruses of the Pixies, Nirvana and the Breeders)." [15] The Washington Post thought that "what distinguishes Resolver is not a new style but a newfound consistency. Track for track, this is the band's catchiest album." [16]

Track listing

All songs written by Louise Post, except where noted.

U.S. release
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Same Person" 1:03
2."Born Entertainer" 2:40
3."Best You Can Get"Post, Brian Liesegang2:45
4."Wet Suit" 4:23
5."Yeah Man" 3:31
6."Imperfectly"Post, Kevin Tihista4:18
7."Officially Dead"Post, Kevin Tihista2:49
8."Only You Know"Post, Brian Liesegang4:09
9."Disconnected" 4:48
10."All Dressed Up" 5:54
11."Used to Know Her" 4:36
12."Pretty Boys" 3:07
13."Hellraiser"Post, Kevin Tihista3:53
European release (Artful Records)
No.TitleLength
1."The Same Person"1:03
2."Yeah Man"3:29
3."Officially Dead"2:49
4."Only You Know"4:07
5."Disconnected"4:46
6."Best You Can Get"2:45
7."Used to Know Her"4:34
8."All Dressed Up"5:53
9."Born Entertainer"2:40
10."Wet Suit"4:23
11."Pretty Boys"3:07
12."Imperfectly"4:14
13."Hellraiser"3:53

Personnel

Chart positions

Album

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