Here We Go Crazy (Retail Exclusive)＜タワーレコード限定/3 Color Smush Vinyl＞

オルタナティブ・ロックの伝説的人物、Bob Mouldがニュー・アルバムでカムバック!

Husker DuとSugarの元フロントマンがアンセミックでエモーショナルなオルタナティヴ・ロックを11曲お届け。
シングル「Here We Go Crazy」「When Your Heart Is Broken」「Breathing Room」 を収録したこのアルバムでは、Bobが素晴らしいパフォーマンスをみせている。

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Bob Mould is not happy. Never a man known for his sunny disposition, Mould has built a long, successful career out of channeling his rage through his urgent songs, his passionate bark of a voice, and the roar of his electric guitar, and even when he seems relatively upbeat (as on 2019s Sunshine Rock) or goes acoustic (1989s Workbook, his solo debut), its hard to detect a smile in his work. So the dark visions of 2025s Here We Go Crazy should surprise no one, though its been a while since hes sounded quite as flummoxed by the world around him as he does here. 2020s Blue Hearts was an explicitly political set that used rage as fuel, but Here We Go Crazy often sounds like hes deeply frustrated in the head and heart, and that a good primal scream isnt going to make it all go away. The good news is that from a musical standpoint, Mould has put his moodiness to good use. Here We Go Crazy once again teams him with bassist Jason Narducy and drummer Jon Wurster, the rhythm section hes been working with since 2012s Silver Age, and they remain the best band Mould has ever worked with, playing this music with a perfect balance of violence and precision, and collectively they tear into these songs with dazzling strength, making canny use of dynamics even when theyre in fifth gear. And Moulds gift for writing ear-catching melodies that mesh with his hardcore-informed attack is every bit as pleasing as it was in his days with Sugar and Husker Du. That said, the claustrophobic tension of this music seems best appreciated in short bursts -- when he sings, "I worry for the future, I worry for the pain/ I worry myself sick about the wear and tear and strain" in "You Need to Shine," he sounds absolutely sincere, even if he later qualifies it with "All I want is happiness for you." And the moments of solace in "Your Side" (about a long-term relationship) and "Breathing Room" (about his creative process) have a hard time cutting through the gloom. The craft of Here We Go Crazy is superb, and Bob Mould is one of the very, very few musicians who came up in the 1980s hardcore scene and is still making powerful, relevant music in the 2020s. However, if he wanted to make an album that reflects the chaos of the culture that witnessed its creation, he may have hit the bullseye just a bit too close to the center. ~ Mark Deming