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There are artists who are lucky to have a period of success in their careers, let alone two. Maybe "success" less than it is - but not necessarily commercial credibility and recognition, too - but the career of Bob Mould is playing with Husker Du - poor sales but almost unparalleled importance in the landscape of American rock 80s - only to re-emerge in the '90s with the Sugar, which arrived in the standings and even thousands of people gather in England.
Now the third was coming at last. Age of silver? Mould is not so self-referential, but there is no doubt that solo is finally getting the attention it deserves: Steps on TV (it was recently a guest of Letterman Show), the big newspapers that devote space.
The solo career of this great American rock was actually quite fluctuating: the sound of the late '80s masterpiece "Workbook" to date he has released two very different things, sometimes even embarrassing (experiments with electronics, derived from his parallel life of that period, the DJ). The last few records, especially "Life and Times" were great.
What happened in between? A 'autobiography, the declaration of unconditional love by Dave Grohl - who wanted the last album of Foo Fighters and with him on tour. And still great music.
"Silver Age" is the album's more rock solo career Mould, a sort of "companion" to "Copper Blue", the disc of Sugar, rescheduled for entire tour at this time. Set aside the semi-acoustic and melancholic atmosphere of "Life and Times" (reflexivity is probably over in his autobiography), the recipe of "Silver Age" is simple: riff deadly modernized version (and inevitably somewhat 'softened) hard Core-they came from the Husker, together with the taste for melody. All this is not so far from the Foo Fighters (and even by Nirvana), in hindsight. Or perhaps we should say exactly the opposite: these groups are not to be so far from Mould: "Star Machine" and "Silver Age" are good examples of rock '90s revisited, "The Descent" really seems to come from a disk of Sugar (it's a compliment).
