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Sep 25, 2020Blue Hearts is a cry of purifying anger in a dark time, and its heat produces a truly necessary light; it's one of the very best solo albums Mould has given us to date.
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Sep 21, 2020Blue Hearts is Mould at his fiercest and most deliberate. [Aug - Oct 2020, p.87
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Sep 29, 2020Blue Hearts finds him upping the ante yet again.
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Sep 24, 2020Blue Hearts gushes more piss and vinegar than Stanley Kubrick could fill a hallway with, but what makes it jaw-dropping is the precision with which Mould has focused his ire on conservatives, evangelicals, homophobes, while leaving room for some self-criticism as well. ... Blue Hearts often feels like a lost Hüsker Dü album with Mould howling invective over his buzzsawing guitar.
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Sep 24, 2020Essentially, it’s rock’n’roll at full pelt; Bob Mould doing what Bob Mould has always done best.
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MojoSep 21, 2020Getting back in touch with his anger hasn't come at the cost of Mould's innate tunefulness. [Oct 2020, p.86]
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UncutSep 21, 2020This latest outing does suitable state-of-the-nation stuff on "Next Generation" and "American Crisis," but the big AM radio melodies in "Everything To You" and "Little Pieces" (plus the unusually lubricious "Leather Dream") show how much fun Mould could still have. [Oct 2020, p.34]
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Sep 28, 2020Together with longtime bandmates Jason Narducy (bass) and Jon Wurster (drums), Mould has created his strongest album since 2012’s Silver Age. Their chemistry soars on the wild tracks “When You Left” and “Racing to the End” as much as on the somber closer “The Ocean”.
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Sep 25, 2020The tone lightens marginally for the relationship rampages of the second half, with Baby Needs A Cookie bordering on pop melodies and Leather Dreams revelling in a sultry churn with a hint of S&M, but Blue Hearts is ideal fodder for smashing in the news channel to.
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Sep 21, 2020While Mould’s never been a wallflower when it comes to expressing his aggression and rage, Blue Hearts — perhaps more than any of his other individual outings — recalls the fury of Hüsker Dü in both its intensity and aggression.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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Nov 6, 2020why does this have almost the highest user review of all time when we can all agree there are much better albums thn this snoozefest...
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Sep 26, 2020Everything I love in Hüsker Dü, Sugar & Bob Mould wrapped in one album. Awesome !