Description:
How do you build on a quarter-century legacy and catalog as a living legend and trailblazer of alternative rock? When you`re 47-year-old vet Bob Mould, you ignore such accolades, and go straight to making hair-raisingly emotional, undeniably catchy, loud, mature guitar rock albums. Yes, he was an `80s punk pioneer with Husker Du, and indie rock god with `90s juggernaut, Sugar. But in between and since, Mould has unleashed a half-dozen uncompromising solo LPs, unafraid to follow inspirations where they`ve led - from 1989`s Richard Thompson-influenced Workbook to 2002`s dancefloor-minded Modulate. Now, following 2005`s acclaimed, return-to-bracing Body of Song, Mould is poised to rip the roof off further with the hard-hitting, elastic District Line - his first for Anti Records. Ace Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty returns from Body of Song, as the perfect backbone to Mould`s determined guitar riffs, insistent basslines, and passionate, vulnerable singing. (Amy Domingues also again adds beautifully bittersweet cello.) Recorded in a Washington D.C. warehouse space with a mobile studio, District Line is a dozen flavors of Mould`s inspired, instantly memorable, melodic songwriting and playing. (Anti)
