THE RIGHT MOULD

Let’s keep this intro short and sweet. One could easily look at Bob Mould’s body of work — Hüsker Dü, Sugar and lots of solo material — and say, ”Wow, what an amazing career!” But Mould is not a guy to rest on his laurels, so music fans are about to get a whole lot more of him this time of year. This being the case, Mould sat down with Goldmine to talk records, politics and why it’s such a critical time to get his message out.

GOLDMINE: I would like to propose that the last week of September and the first week of October be called “Bobtober” with all of the releases you have coming out — a brand new album, a Record Store Day release and an amazing box set. Was this intentional?

Yep. I know the Record Store Day thing will be a nice release, but the two big ones, of course, are and . I have been working on the box sets for, let’s say, four or five years. After releasing last year, and doing the touring and some of the cleanup, it seemed that I felt like I was going to be on break. I felt that 2020 was the right time to do the box. So, I really dig in. And then, around September of last summer, I realized that I was getting a bit of a trigger finger to make another record. I had been playing a lot of guitar; a lot of solo, electric shows in Europe. I had a couple of songs in my back pocket. I had “American Crisis,” which was originally recorded for . I had a sketch of “Forecast of Rain,” which had most of it mostly in place, but I started getting that feeling, you know, that sort