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Confusion all the time, passion and aggression - it's a real fine line
Bob Mould- Patch The Sky
by Dillon Price on March 25, 2016
Genre: Alternative, punk Release date: March 25, 2016 Number of Tracks: 12 Label: Merge Records Website: www.bobmould.com
Purchase or preview Patch The Sky
As a young adolescent in 1994, I briefly remember taping a penny to a BMG CD club post-card and checking off “alternative” as my preferred taste of music. Lo and behold a copy of Sugar’s File Under Easy Listening arrived in the mail through BMG’s monthly CD delivery. It was everything I had hoped for and more; energetic, melodic and fuzz-infused. Through Sugar, I later discovered Mould’s original band Husker DÜ as well as his solo moniker. Now it has been over three decades since Husker DÜ’s Metal Circus EP was released. With such an ample music career, Mould is no stranger to crossing bridges of sound without burning them. His extensive discography offers everything from classic punk to 90’s alt-rock and everything in between.
After signing with Merge Records in 2012, Mould’s has injected a new substance and emotionally-charged angst in a series of albums starting with 2012’s Silver Age and 2014’s Beauty And Ruin. With his latest releases on Merge Records, Mould doesn’t quite return to his early days of Husker DÜ or replicate his previous solo releases. Instead, he captures all the important elements of his career. Mould embraces some of the upbeat rhythmic energy of Husker DÜ ans Sugar on tracks like “The End Of Things,” “You Say You,” “Pray For Rain,” “Hands Are Tied” and “Losing Time.” Then you have “Losing Sleep” which sounds like a sullen recollection of Mould’s songwriting from the late 80’s.
Prior to the release of Patch The Sky, two single tracks from the album were released. “The End of Things” is a melancholic reminiscence the wonderful things that seem to have come to an end. The song starts out with the lyrics “It’s your birthday, but we never celebrate.” Regardless of the song’s context, the melody and rhythm remains immensely catchy as if Mould is aggressively spilling his heart out. “Voices In My Head” conveys the very darkness that Patch The Sky is based on. Mould expresses hallucinations, amplifications and the inability to make sense of things. Yet the music captures a melodic sunny day atmosphere. Appropriately, this song starts with a dreamy and dreary introduction that almost takes you into the mind of Mould.
“Musically bright but lyrically dark” seems to be the overall atmosphere set by Patch The Sky. With the loss of loved ones, ending relationships and the hardships of aging, it is doubtless that this album is Mould’s darkest yet.
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Bob Mould- Patch The Sky was originally published on Sound Renaissance
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