Singer-songwriter's decades-spanning career spans punk rock and electronic music. A solo tour allowing him to cover all stages of his career is coming to Houston
Bob Mould led two influential bands in Husker Du and Sugar. But since the mid-1990s he's been making music on his own. His"Blue Hearts" was released in 2020. Photo: Blake Little Photography
He made a few solo recordings, then surfaced in Texas in the early 1990s with Sugar, a band that placed acoustic Everly Brothers-like guitars at the front of the mix for some, well, sugary but heavy melodic rock songs. Some critics suggested Mould had a “return to form,” in rockcrit parlance, a decade ago with “Silver Age,” though the albums that preceded that one also sounded vital befitting a songwriter who after 40 years of expression finally titled a song “Heart on My Sleeve.” Mould released an album a year before the pandemic and one in the middle of it. So he has plenty of new music to play for fans. His current tour – which stops at the Continental Club on Sept.
A: True. But like you said, it’s nice to have this catalog to draw from. And the music is so different, whether it was a three-piece, solo electric, solo acoustic, electronic. It has been sort of a crazy ride. I was thinking the other day about playing Letterman the day “Silver Age” came out. And the “Copper Blue” anniversary. Thinking about where I was when those albums came out, and there are some parallels.
Q: It feels like a vague or distant callback to Sugar’s “Can’t Believe What You’re Saying.” While information has prompted distrust, it feels like songwriting has been a magnetic north for you.
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