Blue Hearts

Description

NEW EXPLOSIVE 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 deep. This 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 grim in 2018. At that time, he wrote a song called "American Crisis". While in lockdown at his home in San Francisco, he realizes that these were the seeds of the current crisis. The third song on this new album, "American Crisis", virulently denounces those who fomented this crisis. With some of the most direct and confrontational lyrics of a four-decade career, 'Blue Hearts' delivers the most melodic series of protest songs written in one go by Bob Mould. A sense of déjà vu emerges from the autumn of 2019, plunging him back into autumn 1983: then a closeted gay man, 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 first acoustic track "Heart on My Sleeve" lists the ravages of climate change. "Next Generation" worries about who will be next. Bob Mould barely remembers 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!