Bob Mould by Blake Little
Veteran songwriter Bob Mould will release his fourteenth solo album Blue Hearts on September 25th.
“American Crisis is a tale of two times,” he says of the album’s lead single. “Past Time and Present Time. The parallels between 1984 and 2020 are a bit scary for me: telegenic, charismatic leaders, praised and propped up by extreme Evangelicals, either ignoring an epidemic (HIV/AIDS) or being outright deceitful about a pandemic (COVID-19).”
Blue Hearts will succeed last year’s Sunshine Rock, which Live4ever praised as, ‘honest, hard-edged, melodic, assertive’:
“Music trends might be constantly changing (although the more they do, arguably the more they stay the same) but one thing’s for certain: nobody ever got fired for buying a Bob Mould record,” our review opens.
“As part of the beyond-amazing Hüsker Dü he was one of the select pioneers in the vanguard of establishing America’s alternative music scene, and ever since their acrimonious split has been writing and performing emotionally dynamic rock with a courageous fervour.”
