Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts
Studio album by
Velocity Girl
ReleasedMarch 12, 1996
GenreIndie rock, indie pop
LabelSub Pop[1]
ProducerClif Norrell[2]
Velocity Girl chronology
Simpatico
(1994)		 Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.

Critical reception

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]

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)

References

  1. ↑ "Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts". Sub Pop Records.
  2. 1 2 "Velocity Girl". Trouser Press. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. ↑ "Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts - Velocity Girl | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 412.
  5. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1194.
  6. ↑ "Velocity Girl | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Porter, Christopher (September 13, 1996). "Terminal Velocity". Washington City Paper.
  8. ↑ "Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts". EW.com.
  9. ↑ "Velocity Girl Picks Up Speed". MTV News.
  10. ↑ "Velocity Girl Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts Sub Pop". CMJ Network, Inc. May 7, 1996 – via Google Books.



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