Today is the day, people! The Go’s Free Electricity, the group’s storied, long-lost album, is available today, Friday, September 4th worldwide from Sub Pop. The ten-track-long player was written, composed, and arranged by Bobby Harlow (except track one, which was written by Harlow and Dion Fischer, and track five, written by Harlow and Cary Loren).
Free Electricity, which includes the official videos for the title track, “All Dimensions Are Loose,” and today’s offering, “Secular Century Man,” was mixed and produced by Matthew Smith, engineered by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders, and mastered by Jim Kissling at Jim Kissling Mastering in Detroit, Michigan.
All Music says Free Electricity “is simply an adventurous and exciting rock record that’s not afraid to lose control. As with everything The Go did before and after, what makes the album wonderful boils down to the combination of Bobby Harlow’s smart songwriting and the band’s willingness to walk their performances right up to the edge of whatever oblivion they’re currently exploring (4.5/5).” Meanwhile, Stereogum offers this of the title track “the sound of a garage-punk band taking things deep into the chaos zone…” Finally, SPIN says “The album captures the Go at a particularly adventurous moment…pushing the band’s high-octane sound into stranger territory.”
The Go’s Free Electricity can be secured on CD/LP/Digital from Sub Pop. LP orders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on Metallic Gold vinyl (while supplies last).
Read more on Free Electricity here.
The Go
Free Electricity
Tracklisting:
1. Free Electricity
2. Secular Century Man
3. All Dimensions Are Loose
4. Peacock Angel
5. Pharaoh’s Tomb
6. Into Outer Space
7. Turnin’ On
8. Blood Red Sun
9. Muthers of the Earth
10. Golden Dawn
Today you can watch The Go’s official video for “All Dimensions Are Loose” a new offering from the band’s long-lost album, Free Electricity. The visual was filmed by Charles Piippo and captured live at Magic Stick venue in Detroit, MI.
“All Dimensions Are Loose” follows the release of Free Electricity’s title track, which Stereogum says is “the sound of a garage-punk band taking things deep into the chaos zone…”
Having fearlessly plumbed the murky depths of our archives, Sub Pop’s crack team of archivists have resurfaced with glad tidings! The Go’s Free Electricity will finally see worldwide release on Friday, September 4th, 2026! The ten-track long player was written, composed, and arranged by Bobby Harlow (except track one, which was written by Harlow and Dion Fischer; and track five, written by Harlow and Cary Loren).
Free Electricity was mixed and produced by Matthew Smith, engineered by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders, and mastered by Jim Kissling at Jim Kissling Mastering in Detroit, Michigan.
The Go’s Free Electricity is available now to preorder on CD/LP/Digital from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on Metallic Gold vinyl (while supplies last).
Read more on Free Electricity here.
The Go
Free Electricity
Tracklisting:
1. Free Electricity
2. Secular Century Man
3. All Dimensions Are Loose
4. Peacock Angel
5. Pharaoh’s Tomb
6. Into Outer Space
7. Turnin’ On
8. Blood Red Sun
9. Muthers of the Earth
10. Golden Dawn
Having fearlessly plumbed the murky depths of our archives, Sub Pop’s crack team of archivists have resurfaced with glad tidings! The Go’s Free Electricity, the group’s storied, long-lost album, will finally see worldwide release on Friday, September 4th, 2026! The ten-track long player was written, composed, and arranged by Bobby Harlow (except track one, which was written by Harlow and Dion Fischer; and track five, written by Harlow and Cary Loren).
Free Electricity was mixed and produced by Matthew Smith, engineered by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders, and mastered by Jim Kissling at Jim Kissling Mastering in Detroit, Michigan.
The Go’s Free Electricity features highlights such as the title track, “All Dimensions Are Loose,” and “Secular Century Man,” and is available now to preorder on CD/LP/Digital from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on Metallic Gold vinyl (while supplies last).
More on The Go’s Free Electricity by Matthew Smith:
The Go appeared in Detroit in 1998, and I immediately became a fan. I’d been waiting for Detroit to produce a group this good since Brownsville Station broke up, and here they were, except I liked The Go even more than all their hometown predecessors. I eventually was asked to produce their first two albums, so I was granted the rare opportunity to be the producer of my favorite rock and roll group.
The first was the debut album Whatcha Doin’, and the second was the mysterious, legendary “lost” album, Free Electricity.
After a few bass and lead guitar personnel shakeups, and a lot of touring in the U.S. following the release of Whatcha Doin’, The Go were back in Detroit with a bunch of new songs which they wanted to record immediately. We again went to Ghetto Recorders, and were in there for a week, maybe two weeks? The Go played these songs at full blast in the studio, getting them all on tape in just one or two takes. The atmosphere surrounding these sessions was one of openness and creativity, so the overdubbing process was an avalanche of ideas, coming down really fast, and going to tape effortlessly.
The title track might have ended up sounding like a more traditional rock and roll song, but I suggested they do a take with the lead guitar blasting non-stop, something which made the dynamics more like that of a free jazz ensemble. When I sat down to mix the track, the reverb tank seemed to open up like a giant hole in the earth’s crust and suddenly what came out of the speakers was a big, cavernous sound, like some haunted frequency beamed across the time barrier from the Grande Ballroom circa 1968. At this point, the mixing board felt more like a Ouija board. We were going where the music was leading us, and the strange sounds just kept on coming.
There’s a heavy jazz influence on this record. We were all listening to a lot of ‘60s free jazz, so it seemed quite normal (to some of us) that the mixes tended to sound a bit more like records by Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra than the records being made by our peers in the rock and roll scene.
Perhaps this was perceived as a strange approach back in the year 2000, and there certainly were some people who felt we were totally out of control and maybe a bit crazy, but The Go were only as out of control as their musical and literary heroes, like the Fugs and Allen Ginsberg and the Bonzo Dog Band and Nilsson and lots of other individualists who inspired them.
Guest appearances by Cary Loren from Destroy All Monsters and John Olson from Wolf Eyes only reinforced the album’s musical direction. Anyway, “weird” or not, this was an inspired recording made by an inspired group of musicians. There was a feeling of excitement and adventure happening at these sessions, and I think we captured that feeling on tape.
The Go
Free Electricity
Tracklisting:
1. Free Electricity
2. Secular Century Man
3. All Dimensions Are Loose
4. Peacock Angel
5. Pharaoh’s Tomb
6. Into Outer Space
7. Turnin’ On
8. Blood Red Sun
9. Muthers of the Earth
10. Golden Dawn
