Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts

Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts
Studio album by Velocity Girl
Released	March 12, 1996
Genre	Indie rock, indie pop
Label	Sub Pop[1]
Producer	Clif Norrell[2]
Velocity Girl chronology
Simpatico(1994) Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts(1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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. "Velocity Girl". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 26, 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.