Reviewed: 10-01-20
Reviewed by: Tom McCarter
Genre: General
FCCs: “bullshit” on #3
Review: Bob Mould, lead guitarist of Husker Du & Sugar, returns to form on this relentless attack on injustice in short bursts of ire focused on conservatives, homophobes, evangelicals, as well as himself..
If You Like: Sugar, Pixies, Sex Pistols
Track Review (favorites indicated by*):
1/ Heart On My Sleeve (1:59) - drone starts> slow tempo song> quick stop
*2/ Next Generation (2:21) - piano starts, breaks into fast rocker> quick fade
**3/ American Crisis (2:36) - rocking guitar starts> fast rocker> quick fade
*4/ Fireball (1:40) - guitar starts ultra fast rocker> morphs into choral fade
5/ Forecast of Rain (2:27) - heavy chords start> uptempo Pixies-like rocker> fade
*6/ When You Left (2:33) - heavy chords open> rocking Sex Pistols-like attack> quick fade
7/Siberian Butterfly (2:11) - straight ahead rocker> ends on a power chord
8/ Everything to You (2:52) - straight ahead rocker with chorus> quick fade
*9/ Racing To The End (1:52) - guitar starts> fast rocker> ends on extended power chord
10/ Baby Needs A Cookie (2:59) - power chord starts> uptempo rocker> ends on power chord
**11/ Little Pieces (2:38) - guitar starts> fast tempo rocker> ends on power chord
*12/ Leather Dreams (2:54) - guitar starts> uptempo rocker> ends on power chord
*13/ Password To My Soul (2:55) - guitar starts> fast rocker> ends on extended power chord
14/ The Ocean (3:57) - guitar starts> midtempo rocker> builds in intensity, then fades to end