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| 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.' |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
District Line is essentially the same furiously melodic pop Mould played way back when. [Feb 2008, p.98] |
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| 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. |
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| 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." |
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| n/a by Billboard |
District Line is a fine showcase for the differing sides of ex-Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould's repertoire. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
A solid if not completely earth-shattering act of restitution for loyal Bob-watchers |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 3 by Aftonbladet |
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| 3 by Sydsvenskan |
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