Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts

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.

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]

"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.^{[citation needed]}

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)