Blue Hearts

Description

EXPLOSIVE NEW SOLO ALBUM FROM THE LEADER OF HÜSKER DÜ. In 2019, Bob Mould faced the despair of modern times with Sunshine Rock, a melodic and optimistic album. And now, in spring 2020, he declares that we are in it, and very deeply. That feeling is found in his new album, Blue Hearts, the angry but oh-so-catchy yin to the yang of Sunshine Rock. Of course, things were already far from rosy in 2018. At that time, he wrote a song titled "American Crisis". In lockdown at home in San Francisco, he realizes that it was the seeds of the current crisis. The third song on this new album, "American Crisis" fiercely denounces the people who engineered this crisis. With lyrics among the most direct and confrontational of a four-decade career, 'Blue Hearts' delivers the most melodic series of protest songs Bob Mould has written in one go. A sense of déjà vu emerges from the autumn of 2019, taking him back to autumn 1983: then a closeted gay man, he is 22 years old, touring with the now legendary Hüsker Dü and watching his generation decimated by AIDS. Recorded at the famous Electrical Audio in Chicago with Beau Sorenson at the helm and Mould producing, 'Blue Hearts' is a nod to Mould's past while remaining firmly rooted in the issues of our time. The opening acoustic track "Heart on My Sleeve" lists the ravages of climate change. "Next Generation" worries about who will be next. Bob Mould can barely remember writing "Leather Dreams", "Password to My Soul" and "The Ocean", composed after he had gone three days without sleep; however, his album 'Blue Hearts', as melodic as it is explosive, is certainly memorable!