After Hüsker Dü called it a day, frontman Bob Mould released a couple of acoustic-y solo albums that didn't fare too well. His record company released him from his contract and he set about writing the music for what would become Sugar.
Mould returns to his favoured style of distorted guitars with melodic vocals. I'll be honest, his stuff doesn't do much for me. It's generally listenable enough, and I can hear his influence on a few bands I know and like, but these songs really just passed me by without leaving much of an impression. Same with much of the Hüsker Dü I've heard.
In interviews and press, Sugar were plagued by Nirvana questions and comparisons and whether the band was doing well thanks to the grunge scene. All this despite Mould's former band having been a probable influence on many of the grunge bands, so that can't have been easy for Mould.
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