Bob Mould - District Line
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Artist: Bob MouldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Stupid Now
- Who Needs A Dream
- Again and Again
- Old Highs New Lows
- Return to Dust
- The Silence Between Us
- Shelter Me
- Very Temporary
- Miniature Parade
- Walls In Time
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Hit: 5 Stars
Proof that some things not only age gracefully, but actually improve over time, "District Line" by Bob Mould is probably the most accessible CD he's ever released. Having said that, nothing he's done on this release will alienate his most devoted audience, because the quality of the songs on "District Line" is so good.
Mould has certainly straddled the line between mainstream and eclectic in the past - mostly leaning towards the eclectic side. First, with Husker Du in the 80's, then with Sugar in the 90's, his audience has always been formed of mostly college radio listeners. But with "Body Of Song" in 2005 he seemed to find a groove for himself that would resonate with a much larger audience - and "District Line" should further that trend.
From the first track "Stupid Now" Mould embarks on a very personal sounding lyrical journey, backed up by a blistering musical landscape that includes some of the strongest hooks he's ever embedded in song.
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District Line, Mould's seventh solo album, is a swell follow-up to his bracing 2005 return-to-rockishness record Body of Song. You'd think the guy's heart would get tired of having to beat upon his sleeve all the time--but here we are treated to ten new self-deprecating, brutally honest and often (weirdly) upbeat songs from the founder of H?sker D? and Sugar. It's hard not to cheer Mould on in his desire to meld electronic and hard rock elements--after all, he's been on this track for more than six years now. What's strange is that the best songs tend to be those that get lost in either genre rather than the hybrid exercises. One does wish that Mould would abandon that annoying auto-tune synthesizer thing on his voice once and for all. Though "Old Highs and New Lows" is so far towards and through modern MOR sound, it's definitely one of the more memorable tunes. The exceptionally talented Washington, DC resident busts out a few guitar-heavy crunchers that will remind old-timers of when they lost their hearing seeing either of those bands live. The best of these, "Return to Dust," should go on for longer than "Reoccurring Dreams," but is only four and a half minutes. --Mike McGonigalGuitarist/singer/songwriter Mould returns to form as a solo artist on his Anti debut. "District Line" combines the fire of his earliest work in Husker Du, the accessibility of his alternative rock, genre-defining trio Sugar, and the introspection found in his solo releases. He describes it as "stories of my simple life in a complicated town", that being his adopted city of Washington, DC. Working with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, Mould has returned to the live band sound of Husker Du and Sugar to kick out ten songs that sound as youthful, energized, and immediate as anything he has ever recorded. This is a full on rock 'n' roll record, featuring members of Fugazi, and will appeal to fans of that band, as well as new fans raised on Alkaline Trio and Against Me.
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