★★★★★
Tweet We Want More! Vocalist and guitar player, Bob Mould, of the '80s band Husker Dü, just released his eighth solo album titled, Beauty & Ruin. The album is true to Mould's sound, with his distinct vocals and alternative/ pop punk stylings. Beauty & Ruin is a fun listen and a great album to start with. What you hear in these twelve tracks are a reflection of Mould's solo discography that still gives you a taste of Husker Dü material...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-06-15
★★★★★
Pre-dating Kurt Cobain, Frank Black and all the others, alternative-rock elder statesman Bob Mould was, in the mid '80s, at the forefront of that musical genre's evolution. With Hüsker Dü, and then Sugar, he helped forge a path for the loud, stripped-down, guitar-based anthems that would propagate the media and (sometimes) the airwaves for over a decade. While Cobain exited tragically, and the media turned its back to more mainstream, "Nickelback's best mid-tempo rockers...
- filtermagazine.com
2014-06-13
★★★★★
Bob Mould can't stop/won't stop. Just two years after Silver Age and the Sugar reissues, he's back again with another new solo record, 12-track self-reflection entitled Beauty & Ruin. It's yet another collection of catchy, guitar-driven indie rock, continuing the creative resurgence he's enjoyed since 2005's Body of Song.
In addition to his overall consistency as a songwriter, Mould has shown quite a bit of stylistic reach over his last several albums...
- www.punknews.org
2014-06-14
★★★★★
Bob Mould - hero to everyone from Dave Grohl to Billie Joe Armstrong - can't help but remind us of the overwhelming influence he's had. Opening his 11th solo album with the Dinosaur Jr sludge of 'Low Season', he harks back to the days when he ruled the American underground with Hüsker Dü. 'I Don't Know You Anymore' is the song a million pop-punk bands dreamed of writing, while 'The War' exists to remind fuzzy revivalists like Cheatahs who's sitting at the top of the grunge family tree...
- www.nme.com
2014-06-09
★★★★★
It's rather unfair on Bob Mould - a storied and varied artist - but much of the last 20 years of his output has been subject to the Sugar test. It has often come up short. Is Beauty & Ruin, his 11th solo album, as good as Sugar, the feted 90s band Mould fronted after his seminal 80s punk band, Hüsker Dü, fell apart? Yes, it is, if you miss the churning post-hardcore melodics of old, a sound that Mould struggled to outgrow before re-embracing it for 2012's Silver Age...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-06-08
★★★★★
?????????? Bob Mould has spent a substantial amount of time looking back recently. In 2011, he released a revealing and candid autobiography. The next year brought expanded reissues of his work with Sugar. In 2013, Mould kickstarted a concert video that featured rock luminaries paying tribute to him and his body of work. Earlier this year, he toured behind a 25th anniversary reissue of Workbook, his first solo record...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-06-06
★★★★★
Bob Mould had me at the fogged glasses. Watching the former Hüsker Dü frontman, now in his early fifties, thrash across a KEXP Bumbershoot stage last year with a young man's fervor, partially blinded by the sweat droplets cascading down his now-bald head and collecting on his lenses, I remember thinking to myself, Here's a guy who's figured out how to age about as gracefully as life permits. Really, that's what makes Mould's 2012 downer, Silver Age, surprisingly uplifting...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-06-07
★★★★★
The past few years have seen Bob Mould return to his hard-rockin' ways. His dalliance with dance music is a thing of a past, and for fans of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, this record is a welcome to return to the heavier periods of both Mould-fronted outfits. Opening with a ferocious blast in the form of heavy guitar riffs that introduce and pace intro track "Low Season," Mould's new album is out to continue where 2012's Silver Age left off...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2014-06-05
★★★★★
The cover of Beauty & Ruin pairs a younger Bob Mould with the current grizzled and grey-bearded one, showcasing the physical evolution of the former Hüsker Dü frontman. Musically though, the artist's retained his youth: on his latest release, his driving, hook-laden punk rock is as precise as always. Inspired in no small part by his father's death in 2012, there's definite fury on the record, heard especially in the stomping, moody opener Low Season...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-06-05
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