• Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Jun 3, 2014
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 29
  2. Negative: 0 out of 29
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  1. Oct 28, 2014
    60
    It’s been an odd and unpredictable mix at times, but Mould’s always made a point of indulging his interest with passion and integrity.
  2. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2014
    60
    Beauty & Ruin--a lean, 12 songs in 37 minutes--finds Mould still monkeying with the formula. [Jul 2014, p.90]
  3. Jul 1, 2014
    60
    [Opening track Low Season is] a bizarre blip on an album that fans will lap up.
  4. Jun 23, 2014
    60
    Older, wiser, still rocking: Mould’s sounding as electric as ever.
  5. Q Magazine
    Jun 13, 2014
    60
    The result is one of his most rounded, fulfilling solo records. [Jul 2014, p.111]
  6. 60
    As ever, though, reckonings go hand in glove with the riffs and hooks, and the death of Mould's father in 2012 looms large here.
  7. The nostalgic nods become wearier in the second half, but Beauty & Ruin is strong enough to add weight to the argument that alternative rock belongs to Bob Mould; everyone else is just borrowing it.
  8. Jun 5, 2014
    60
    On his latest release, his driving, hook-laden punk rock is as precise as always.

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