Solid Brass Records to Reissue FRANKLIN’s “Go Kid Go” with Remastered and Expanded Edition

July 13 marks the arrival of a remastered and expanded edition of Go Kid Go by FRANKLIN, issued through Solid Brass Records. The release pulls the band’s work back into focus without the fanfare that often distorts reappraisals of this kind.

FRANKLIN operated in the 1990s at a point where post-punk angularity and emo’s emotional directness could still share the same stage without contradiction. Their music carried an Americana twang and an electronic rock undercurrent that sidestepped genre loyalty. “The Nuda,” now streaming ahead of the full reissue, preserves that friction: heavy, melodic, and structurally restless.

Archival reissues frequently default to nostalgia. This one lands differently. The material hasn’t been mythologized by streaming-era playlists or algorithm-led rediscovery. Solid Brass Records is positioning the release as an act of documentation rather than resurrection. For listeners who encountered FRANKLIN through a dubbed cassette or a comp track long before platforms existed, the value is in precision, not sentiment.

The expanded format suggests there is more to examine than a straight repress of the original tracklist. It also confirms that labels working at this scale can still make editorial choices that matter—deciding what gets preserved and what gets left behind.