Bob Mould is celebrating the new year with the announcement of a long-awaited new studio album. “Here We Go Crazy” arrives via Granary Music/BMG Records on Friday, March 7th, 2025
Mould’s 15th solo album and first full length new album in more than four years, “Here We Go Crazy” – which follows 2020’s critically acclaimed “Blue Hearts” – is heralded by today’s premiere of the lead single and title track, “Here We Go Crazy”, available everywhere now.
“I’ve been spending time in the Southern California desert over the past few years, and the video was shot there. Chilly wilderness atop a mountain, expansive vistas below the hills, distant places to escape life’s routines”, Mould says, “’Going crazy’ can be many different things. The joy of reckless abandon, the uncertainty of the world’s future, the silence of solitude”.
Produced by Mould at Chicago, IL’s famed Electrical Audio in early 2024 and then finished and mixed at Oakland, CA’s Tiny Telephone with longtime collaborator Beau Sorenson engineering, “Here We Go Crazy” once again features backing by the crack rhythm section of drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy, and together the trio bring a bracing attack to eleven new Bob Mould songs.
“On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar pop songs. I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity”, Mould says, “Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes. Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainly and unconditional love”.
Inspired by a riff that Mould says “sounded like a fistfight”, “Neanderthal” is “a snapshot from inside my head as a young kid: growing up in a violent household, everything being unsettled, feeling that fight-or-flight response at all times”, while “Breathing Room” is “about feelingisolated, cramped-up, and literally needing that breathing space”.
“Lost or Stolen” chronicles lives undone by “people losing themselves in their phones”, Mould explains. From this focus, he pulls back and digs into “ideas about depression, addiction, self-medication and collapse… The words just fell out of me”.
Pre-orders for standard vinyl, limited-edition colored vinyl, limited-edition t-shirts, CD, bundles, and more, are available here.
Tracklist:
1. Here We Go Crazy
2. Neanderthal
3. Breathing Room
4. Hard To Get
5. When Your Heart is Broken
6. Fur Mink Augurs
7. Lost or Stolen
8. Sharp Little Pieces
9. You Need to Shine
10. Thread So Thin
11. Your Side
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