Bob Mould - District Line

Reviews of District Line

Rating Summary
n/a by www.avclub.com It plays much like a continuation of "Body Of Song," with the electronic elements even more streamlined and less obtrusive, save on the all-electronic 'Shelter Me.' Read more
n/a by www.spin.com District Line is essentially the same furiously melodic pop Mould played way back when. [Feb 2008, p.98] Read more
n/a by Popmatters Mould comes full circle on District Line, marrying his distant acoustic past to his current path and it seems as if he has found a happy medium. Read more
n/a by www.amazon.com District Line, Mould's seventh solo album, is a swell follow-up to his bracing 2005 return-to-rockishness record "Body of Song." Read more
n/a by Billboard District Line is a fine showcase for the differing sides of ex-Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould's repertoire. Read more
n/a by thephoenix.com The keyboards that colored his swan dive into dance music before he re-embraced rock with 2005’s Body of Song are simply another subtle layer of muscle for this sinewy disc. Read more
n/a by www.musicomh.com Perhaps it's fair to say that sometimes it all sounds a little too comfortable for, erm, comfort (the line "growing old, it's hard to be an angry young man" is pretty telling). Read more
n/a by www.adequacy.net A solid if not completely earth-shattering act of restitution for loyal Bob-watchers Read more
n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com District Line delivers the latest dissertation in cross-pollination and like past projects it’s a bit of a Frankenstein affair. Read more
n/a by Rolling Stone District Line is a ­focused, gripping zigzag between fury and woe, scorched rock and folk-pop distress, much like the Hüskers' best records--now with a longer view. Read more
n/a by Pitchfork Media It's not that it lacks tension--indeed, almost every song touches on relationship strife--it's just that the squabbles are gentle, the rage subdued. Read more
n/a by music.guardian.co.uk Mould's ability with melody is much in evidence throughout District Line - there's a particularly glorious example on the closing 'Walls in Time'--though it's occasionally hard to escape the uncomfortable sensation of an artist trapped somewhere between his own urges and his audience's expectations. Read more
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