Album Review: Blue Hearts by Bob Mould

The fire in Bob Mould’s belly can’t be extinguished. After several late-career solo albums backed by one of the tightest bands since Sugar, Mould follows up last year’s Sunshine Rock with a darker, more urgent album, Blue Hearts. Blue Hearts is Mould at his fiercest and most deliberate. The album is a 14-song screed that tackles the current sociopolitical climate of confusion and upheaval.

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Bob Mould is a totally unique proposition in the world of recorded music, but the fact that he’s released his latest solo album, Blue Hearts, on the same day that Thurston Moore has released his is a coincidence too delicious to ignore. Mould and Moore have both been figureheads of alternative rock music for nearly 40 years, and have both influenced thousands of musicians across the globe since they first made an impact on the underground consciousness in the mid-’80s as the leaders of Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth respectively. Though their artistic careers have run parallel to each other, with their paths crossing a few times along the way, Mould’s ’90s output with his power pop band Sugar often beat Moore’s in the commercial stakes (in the UK at least).

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When Bob Mould dropped the white-hot rage of 'American Crisis' back in June, it felt like everything you could want from a punk veteran in the Trump era: honest, catchy as all hell and absolutely raging. It's surely the boomeriest of boomery observations to state that life under a right-wing government is good news for the art of the protest song, inasmuch as it's brainlessly glib nonsense. However, those very conditions have certainly dragged the best from one of alternative rock's favourite sons.

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