Veruca Salt, ‘Ghost Notes’, listen it online

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Ani Difranco tiene una frase en su canción de 2012, «If Yr Not,»que dice lo siguiente: «Si no eres más feliz a medida que te vas haciendo mayor / entonces es que la estás cagando». La banda de Rock alternativo Veruca Salt no parecían realmente infelices en su apogeo a finales de los 90s, pero es nada más escuchar los diez primeros segundos del primer album de la banda en cerca de una década, Ghost Notes, cuando vemos qué bien se lo están pasando ahora.

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Ani Difranco has a line in her 2012 song, «If Yr Not,» where she sings, «If you’re not getting happier as you get older / Then you’re [messing] up.» Chicago alt-rock band Veruca Salt certainly didn’t seem unhappy in their heyday in the mid- and late-’90s, but it’s apparent within in ten seconds of the band’s first album in nearly a decade, Ghost Notes, how much more fun they’re having now.

Also apparent within ten seconds is the quartet’s intention to double down on sounding recognizably like Veruca Salt, which means sounding unabashedly decade-specific. It’s a bold move: changing lineups several times in the ’90s and early ’00s, stepping back from new material for a full decade, and returning with music that sounds as deliberately youthful as «Seether,» its 1994 debut single. In fact, maybe even more so. Thanks in large part to unsinkable pop harmonies from Louise Post and Nina Gordon, Ghost Notes has brighter, rounder edges than their debut, American Thighs, or the even grittier Eight Arms To Hold You. What read then as a dirty-haired, grungy rebellious streak has been injected with exactly the lighter-hearted joie de vivre Difranco’s lyric insists is the key to growing up.