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Artist: Bob MouldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-30
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Anymore Time Between
- I Hate Alternative Rock
- Fort Knox, King Solomon
- Next Time That You Leave
- Egoverride
- Thumbtack
- Hair Stew
- Deep Karma Canyon
- Art Crisis
- Roll Over And Die
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Music Review: Solid post-Sugar songs from Bob Mould
Rating: 4 Stars
"Anymore Time Between" opens Bob Mould's "Hubcap" album on a down-tuned, downbeat note. Mould's voice sounds forlorn, and his lyrics are hopeless and downcast. None of these musical characteristics are exactly foreign elements from Mould, and to the guy's credit, he spices up the song as it moves along with driving chords and a faster pace. The following tune, "I Hate Alternative Rock," pretty much speaks for itself in terms of subject matter, and it's where the album gets interesting. This song could have come from Sugar just four years earlier -- that's how cool it is. "Alternative Rock" is a blast of sugar-powered rock and roll that ranks up there with Mould's most supreme work: killer riffs all over the place that come off as frantic; strained, double-tracked vocals (how Mould sounds best) buried in the heavy, wall-of-sound mix; and pissed-off lyrics about the state of the music industry to boot. "Fort Knox, King Solomon" is mellower, much more breezy, and also sugar-powered pop rock. On it, Mould strums his trademark bright-sounding acoustic guitar to drive the song along, and it's good to hear lyrics from him that stray from personal problems with lovers, personal demons and low self-esteem. The carefree "For Knox" sounds as if it's about bank robbers who attempted a big score but failed miserably. (My interpretation is probably dead wrong but I'm sticking to it.)
Most of this album is indeed a venting of personal frustrations by Mould, as solid tunes like "Next Time That You Leave," "Hair Stew" and "Roll Over and Die" will attest to. The good this is, "Bob Mould" is heavy on electric guitar and is pretty tuneful throughout, just like past Sugar albums. "Hair Stew" comes across as downright eerie (you might want to avoid it), but "Deep Karma Canyon" and especially "Art Crisis" pick things back up in a huge way to wind down the CD. For the record, "Art Crisis" is one of the best songs on the album. A portion of the driving guitar on that song is reminiscent of Sugar's "Mind is an Island" from the band's swan-song CD entitled Besides.
One could argue that there's a bit of a one-dimensional feel to this album, perhaps because Mould so singlehandedly created it, and that makes for songs that are a tad less exciting than what Sugar was doing earlier on in the 1990s (see Copper Blue). Still, "Bob Mould" is worthy, and anytime this artist plugs in his guitar, it's usually cause to open up your ears and listen.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Bob Mould's first solo album in six years (following the demise of Sugar) is unremittingly dark, direct, and brilliant. Entirely self-written, -performed, and -produced, the 11-song collection opens with Mould bellowing that he's "sick of myself, sick of everything I am" and ends with: "If I couldn't hold you I'd end it all." That last song is called "Roll Over and Die," if that helps provide a sense of the situation. In between, Mould rails with brutal bluntness about his personal and creative strife. Someone he "expected to grow old with" has broken his heart, and he's utterly grief-stricken. No matter how many times Mould insists he's "as useless as can be," and that what he creates is "bullshit," the urgency of such cathartic music argues to the contrary. --Steven Stolder
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