Bob Mould's 2012 album Silver Age, out on Merge, is the acclaimed singer-songwriter and Sugar/Husker Du founder's first album of all-new studio material since 2009 s Life and Times. Inspired and informed by Bob's recent shows opening for Foo Fighters as well as his shows commemorating the 20th anniversary of Sugar's 1992 début Copper Blue in which he performs that album in its entirety, Silver Age presents ten Mould compositions in the punishingly loud, melodically sparkling pop/rock vein of the Sugar catalogue that Merge reissued on July 24, 2012.