Following 2005's acclaimed, return-to-bracing Body of Song, Mould rips the roof off further with the hard-hitting, elastic District Line - his first for Anti Records. Ace Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty returns from Body of Song, as the perfect backbone to Mould's determined guitar riffs, insistent basslines, and passionate, vulnerable singing. (Amy Domingues also again adds beautifully bittersweet cello.) Recorded in a Washington D.C. warehouse space with a mobile studio, District Line is a dozen flavors of Mould's inspired, instantly memorable, melodic songwriting and playing. The inimitable blasting, bursting, guitar-smacked choruses of "Stupid Now," "Who Needs to Dream," "Return to Dust," "The Silence Between Us," and "Very Temporary" sit comfortably with the folk-tinged "Again and Again" and "Walls of Time," the more fanciful "Miniature Parade," and the electronic-laced postpunk dance stomp, "Shelter Me."

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