Bob Mould

From the pioneering punk of Hüsker Dü, which bared his angst over furious noise and turbulent melody - an indelible influence on generations that followed - to the power-pop force of Sugar, alloying his most melodic songs with his fiercest noise, which yielded his most commercially successful work yet, and a much celebrated solo career, Mould has shaped the sound of alternative rock for over four decades.

Here We Go Crazy is both a reflection and a reckoning - an album that pairs Mould’s signature melodic hooks with lyrical depth, offering up truth, heart and sonic firepower in equal measure. Pop music runs through his veins, as surely as the electricity that drives his chiming hooks into the realms of distortion, but he’s here to give you songs that ring true when howled against a tornado of guitar - songs that compress all that “lifetime emotional content” into some kind of sonic diamond. There’s eleven of those precious gems here, sculpted to make the heaviness easier to bear, somehow. Treasure them.