release date: Aug. 25, 1998
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Bob Mould
label: Rykodisc / Creation Records - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 2. "Moving Trucks" - 3. "Taking Everything" - 4. "First Drag of the Day" (4 / 5) - 5. "Classifieds" - 6. "Who Was Around?" - 7. "Skintrade" - 9. "Sweet Serene" - 11. "Reflecting Pool"
4th solo album by Bob Mould following nearly 2½ years after the self-titled '96 album was intended to be his last studio album. In an interview he referred to the troublesome almost 20 years of life on the road, but supposedly it was (also) his sufferings from tinnitus that had him accepting this to be incompatible with a lifestyle as a musician.
My first impression was one of disappointment as it doesn't reach the level of his '96 release, but then again: how many does that? Also, despite the effort to continue the success of his most recent album, it really contains some fine tracks but also points in too many directions.
It's by no means a mediocre release, but it may be regarded as his last good album for a long period of time as a comeback would be launched with Modulate in 2002, which initiates a period of... let's just call it experimentation.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
It's by no means a mediocre release, but it may be regarded as his last good album for a long period of time as a comeback would be launched with Modulate in 2002, which initiates a period of... let's just call it experimentation.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
