Bob Mould

Bob Mould has a brand new full-length slated for Sept 25th, titled Blue Hearts. Once again, Bob is working with Superchunk's rhythm section Jon Wurster & Jason Narducy in power trio mode, producing it himself w/ engineering help from Beau Sorensen (who has worked on all of Bob's Merge albums). 

One big difference between this one & his last are the themes of the record. It's almost the complete opposite of Sunshine Rock in that regard. While Sunshine Rock was mostly about love & optimism about where Bob was in his life, Blue Hearts is about the pain & drastic changes he (and all of us) have experienced in the last 12 months (and how they've personally triggered the memories of Bob's experiences as a closeted gay man in during the peak of the AIDS crisis circa 1983).

1. Heart on My Sleeve
2. Next Generation
3. American Crisis
4. Fireball
5. Forecast of Rain
6. When You Left
7. Siberian Butterfly
8. Everything to You
9. Racing to the End
10. Baby Needs a Cookie
11. Little Pieces
12. Leather Dreams
13. Password to My Soul
14. The Ocean