Here We Go Crazy


Here We Go Crazy is the fifteenth studio album by American alternative rock musician Bob Mould. It was released on March 7, 2025, via Granary Music and BMG Rights Management in LP, CD and digital formats, and features the sole single, "Here We Go Crazy". It appeared on the Scottish Albums Chart at 20, the UK Independent Albums Chart at 5, and the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart at 4.

Background

Consisting of eleven tracks ranging between two and four minutes each with a total runtime of approximately thirty-one minutes, Here We Go Crazy was released five years after Mould's 2020 full-length release, Blue Hearts. It was produced by Mould and mixed by Beau Sorenson in 2024 at Electrical Audio in Chicago, with additional work completed in Tiny Telephone Studios of Oakland. Mould also recorded the album in Electrical Audio with his bassist and drummer collaborators, Jason Narducy and Jon Wurster. Incorporating punk and post-grunge, the album was noted as centering on the themes of uncertainty and refuge.
The title track was released as the lead single of the album on January 8, 2025. A music video directed by Gus Black was released alongside the single. Mould commented about the shooting of the video that it occurred in a desert in Southern California during his time there, referring to songs on the album as "straightforward guitar pop", and the title as having originated from ideas such as impulsivity, uncertainty and solitude.

Reception

In a four-star review, Record Collector critic described the album as influenced by "issues that upset and bother his conscience" and "less directly furious" than its predecessor, noting the manner of Mould's "venting" on the album as "introspective", "more ambiguous" and "melancholic in nature". Writing for Financial Times, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney commented that it lacks the "electric charge" of its predecessor but "finds comfort in the familiar contours" in Mould's musical style.
It was described as an album of "self-reflection through his heartfelt rasp and intricate songwriting" by Mxdwn Mark D'Alessandro, "a clear-eyed, but not despairing, song cycle" in Brian Stout's review for PopMatters, "an album that reflects the chaos of the culture that witnessed its creation" by AllMusic Mark Deming, and "a throwback to Hüsker Dü, with just slightly less guitar distortion" in Lee Wakefield's Clash review.
Assigning Here We Go Crazy four stars, Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone observed that the album is reflective of the "same landscape of tumultuous noise and roiling emotions he's been navigating" since 1979. Sam Lambeth of Louder Than War referred to it as "a record that plays to Mould's musical strengths – taut, jagged melodies with shards of sweetness always threatening to poke through – without sounding tired or repetitive." Daniel Dylan Wray, reviewing for Uncut, noted the similarity between the album and its predecessor as "striking, sharp, sub-three-minute bursts of intense pop-coated alternative rock that recalls the fizzy joy of the Buzzcocks."
God Is in the TV writer Loz Etheridge stated, it is "probably closer to" Copper Blue by Sugar "than anything else he's ever put out", calling it a "highly palatable record." Referring to the tone as "furiously loud" and the songs as "full of grit, sadness and darkness", John Murphy of MusicOMH opined that the album was unlikely to attract a new audience but sufficient to "satisfy" existing fans.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.