Dover "Complications"

Dover "Complications" (p)2015 Sony Music

It seems like it's nice time to return to where you came from. The last year marked the reunions of some remarkable loud rock bands from the nineties: Failure, Molly McGuire, Moist, to name a few. Among the ones who came back under the spotlight from post-death nowhere was the Chicago-based grunge quartet Veruca Salt led by the female singers/guitarists Louise Post and Nina Gordon who once let the personal tensions and complicated love/hate stories kill the band. Almost fifteen years later being fully recuperated, Veruca Salt has put out the new single "The Museum Of Broken Relationships/It's Holy" - two songs that sounded so fat and reach and vital that it was almost unbelievable for the band whose heyday was long forgotten not only by the fanbase but seemingly by the bandmembers themselves. I tell you about the current VS's activities not only because Dover formerly were - and now again are - something like the Spanish blueprint of Veruca Salt (four persons, two girls as a creative core, post-grunge roots). Mostly I tell you that because this entire album sounds like a successor to "Museum Of Broken Relationships" single. "Complications" also sounds fat and reach and natural - so natural it's almost unbelievable for the band whose two last albums (recorded 4.5 and 8.5 years ago) were electro-rock'y ones. Maybe it's reissue of Dover's breakthrough album "Devil Came To Me" (now under "Dover Came To Me" name) in 2013 and it's promotional tour what made Christina and Amparo feel like it's time to unleash their rock beast again.
Now here they are - the reinvented version of Dover. Honestly speaking, even the best releases of the band contained the tracks that could be considered mediocre. Arguably, "Complications" is the first album of the band that follows the 'all killer no filler' template. I suppose it's the right turn in the right time. 

The best tracks: Mystified, Like A Man, Too Late, Building A Fire