As a founding member and half of the songwriting engine that drove Hüsker Dü to his maverick solo work Grant Hart has cut a singular path across the last three decades. And it is with great confidence that we say he's made an album to rival even his old band's greatest achievements. An epic based on John Milton's Paradise Lost. Hart distills its essence into pop rock nuggets that flit through the history of 20th century music from Cole Porter to Buddy Holly to David Bowie to, ... even Hüsker Dü. Yes, it's ambitious as hell and yes, he pulls it off.