Comments for Mould, Bob, Bob Mould

Probably my favorite album of 1996, and one which should lay to rest anyone's lingering angst over the breakup of Sugar. The cathartic "Eg0verride" is a distortion lover's dream, the pensive "Next Time That You Leave" and "Anymore Time Between" should Mould at the top of his bad-relationship form, and the astonishing "Roll Over and Die" somehow manages to make Sugar's "Explode and Make Up" sound almost cheerful. Mould is perhaps no deity on the bass or drum machine, but it was always the roar of his guitar which lent that transcendental quality to his music, and that roar is alive and well here. In a liner-note graphic, Mould rates his work on a five-star scale in six categories and comes up with an "overall assessment" of three. I'm inclined to be rather more generous.

Angst. I could feel the seething in almost every word, yet it still somehow seems bottled up. Still feel workbook is his best work as "solo", but that was not typical Bob. This seems real.

Bob Mould is Bob Mould. This self-titled album is dedicatedas follows: "This one is for me."