Are Bob Mould’s ’90s alt.rock band Sugar teasing a return?

Fans of brilliant ’90s alt.rock, get excited: Bob Mould’s Sugar are seemingly up to something.

The band – completed by David Barbe and Malcolm Travis – might be gearing up for a long-awaited reunion, following their split in 1995. Of course, they formed after the end of punk icons Hüsker Dü, releasing their debut album Copper Blue in 1992 (plus their Beaster EP the following year, and File Under: Easy Listening the year after that). Now, the account @sugarcopperblue has popped up on various social media platforms, sharing a snippet of Hoover Dam from the aforementioned Copper Blue. But what does this all mean?!

In a 2019 career-spanning interview with Bob, he reflected of the end of the band: “When Sugar dissolved – no pun intended – it was a gradual thing for practical reasons. David’s situation as a father of two young children, I totally got it. Had Sugar been professionally managed and manicured by some entertainment concern, I think there’d have been tons of cajoling David into staying, ’cause that’s what the business does. But I was like, ‘I totally get it, can you at least hang on through all the stuff we have booked?’ and he was like, ‘Of course.’ So that made it easy, and we were able to have fun shows at the end.”

Anyway, check out Sugar’s recently-posted YouTube videos below, and watch this space:

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