Bob Mould was a busy man last year. Not only did he release Bob Mould, a record for which he wrote every lyric, played every note and even did the artwork, but he also managed to figure out his life.

“Last year was about stepping away,” Mould said from his home in New York. “I was able to come to terms with what it means to have work separate from everything in my life.

“For years, everything was about work, and it wasn’t taking me anywhere. I feel better just recognizing that. I feel content with life.”

Mould said the year was also special in that he reconnected with his family on a different level. “I have been able to get more out of life,” he said.

Mould’s year couldn’t be better reflected than through his current record, a project he takes a lot of pride in. “It was a completely self-contained effort,” he said.

“I would say the record definitely includes some of my best moments, but I still scratch my head with a few of the songs. It may be my best work yet, but no record will I ever be content with.”

Bob Mould was definitely a self-indulging project for Mould. The singer’s solo efforts are explained further on “Egoverride,”a humorous, autobiographical track on the disc.

“I get a lot of people calling me a control freak,” Mould said. “So what, ya know? [With “Egoverride”], I am just beating them to the punch.”

This same attitude is evident throughout the disc, particularly on “I Hate Alternative Rock,” a self-explanatory, tongue-in-cheek limerick, Mould wrote about a genre that, he said, has since disappeared.

“There’s nothing alternative about what they’re doing,” Mould said about today’s so-called alternative artists. “Alternative began years ago, with people doing shows at nontraditional venues and stuff like that.

“There’s no sense of that happening now. There’s no real sense of community in music any more.”

When the years of alternative were beginning, so was Mould’s career. The artist first got his start in the pioneering punk band Hsker D. Now, more than two decades later, Mould jokes that he “leaves the room” when Hsker material comes on.

“I don’t think much about it,” he said. “It doesn’t jog my memory bank or anything. It was just a very creative time.”

Mould went from Hsker D to Sugar and has been on his own since ’94. He released his first solo effort, Next Time You Leave, two years ago.

“I miss [having a band] a little bit,” he said. “That was fun for a while, but it was time to move on. I don’t miss trying to put everyone in the band’s ideas into one sound.”

Although he is on the road alone, Mould said he had no problems playing Sugar songs during his acoustic set. “If I can remember it, I’ll play it,” he said. “But a lot of Sugar songs can’t be played on an acoustic guitar.”

While Mould calls Bob Mould “a step in a new direction,” he said he is not quite sure where he will go from there.

“I am enjoying the acoustic thing now, but that could change in a heartbeat,” he said. “I could just start writing something loud and aggressive, you never know.

“I don’t know where it’s going to lead; there’s no big road map laid out for my life.”

Mould will map his way to People’s Bar and Grill tonight with the power duo Jason Narducy and Alison Chelsey, also known as Skinny. Tickets are still available for the 8 p.m. show.