It had been 15 years since Veruca Salt’s Louise Post and Nina Gordon shared a stage together, but in 2013, the band posted on social media: “for now let’s just say this: hatchets buried, axes exhumed.” The grunge alt-rockers picked up right where they had left off, along with the other two original members as well, bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro, releasing 2015’s Ghost Notes via El Camino Records.

What Veruca Salt always excelled in was the art of the catchy rager, fusing Gordon’s poppy yin with Post’s harder-edged yang. Sharing songwriting tasks between the two gave the band it’s see-saw of sounds; while always cognizant of ready-for-MTV power-pop choruses, the band’s guitars were crunchy and booming, steering them far away from pure, down the middle pop and positioning them right next to some of Chicago’s (and the era’s) greatest grunge acts. And those harmonies! Don’t get me started.

The band recently premiered its video for “Eyes On You” which perfectly complements the track’s–and the album’s–sentiments. The concept retraces their long separation, as each member watches the others play on screens in different rooms.

“We think of this song as a forensic study of the end of a friendship—searching for the exact moment where something went terribly wrong,” Nina Gordon explained to Noisey, who premiered the clip. “One thing we really wanted to get at was the isolation you can feel when analyzing a breakup, so we figured that maybe having us stuck there watching each other on TV screens for all eternity would do the trick.”

Check out the Steven Soria-directed video below:

Veruca Salt – Eyes on You

The latest single off Veruca Salt’s GHOST NOTES. And here’s a download on us of our “Number One Blind” b-side, “Bodies”: http://bit.ly/VSbodies Double Vinyl LP: http://geni.us/GNvinyl iTunes: http://geni.us/GNiTunes Amazon: http://geni.us/GNamazon Directed by Steven Soria