Bob Mould

• Workbook [Virgin, 1989] C+
• Black Sheets of Rain [Virgin, 1990]
• Egoverride [Rykodisc, 1996] *
• Bob Mould [Rykodisc, 1996]
• Modulate [GM, 2002]
• Sunshine Rock [Merge, 2019] A-

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Workbook [Virgin, 1989]
Mould-Maimone-Fier are some kind of supersession, but they're no band, and between the cello and the acoustic guitar and the moderato and the lyric sheet that ought to have a little typeface note like at the end of a Borzoi book, I find myself disliking their record intensely. Until the raving finale, it's so respectable, so cautious, as if honest thought were a suitable substitute for wisdom, sarcasm, a good joke, or a suicide run for the next intro. C+

Black Sheets of Rain [Virgin, 1990]

Egoverride [Rykodisc, 1996]
sole great song-sound off latest go-it-alone plus three crisply creditable outtakes equals one decent EP ("Egoverride") *

Bob Mould [Rykodisc, 1996]

Modulate [GM, 2002]

Sunshine Rock [Merge, 2019]
Thirty years post-Hüsker Dü, 25 post-Sugar, the now Berlin-based Mould finally intensifies the power-trio format he helmed with an unstinting hand while delivering the tunes late Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart could never put across without him. Four of the most winning are called "Sunshine Rock," "Sunny Love Song," "Camp Sunshine," and "Western Sunset," so maybe some life-change has made him a happy fella in a political morass he references without targeting. Never does he fully generate the surging de facto optimism of either of his old bands, and I'll blame the morass, thank you. But this is the first time the solo Mould has come close to what he was once capable of, and that he's managed it this late should encourage us all. A-

See Also

• Hüsker Dü's Propulsive Liberation [2011-06-24]