Reckless Records 9/6/24 & 9/13/24 New Releases
FLOATING POINTS – Cascade LP/CD (Ninja Tune)
Following his marvelous collaboration with PHAROAH SANDERS in 2021 on “Promises”, Sam Shepherd returns to the sound of club music on “Cascade”. Punchy, synth worship house merges with detailed, brain-tickling jazz-dance for a record equally attuned to both the dancefloor and the home stereo. RECOMMENDED.
JESUS LIZARD – Rack LP/CD (Ipecac)
It’s been 26 long years since there was a new JESUS LIZARD album & a few months back almost everyone was surprised to find out a new one was on the way. Their 2009 reunion shows were incredible but that was 15 (!) years ago so who knew what to expect but we’re happy to say that this record ROCKS. All 4 guys might nearly be senior citizens with silver hair but they still bring it harder than almost any noise rock band. One of our favorite all-time groups is back & we’re here for it. RECOMMENDED.
MIDWIFE – No Depression in Heaven LP/CD/CS (The Flenser) color or black vinyl
Over the past few years the Colorado based musician Madeline Johnston aka MIDWIFE has made some of our favorite records. “No Depression In Heaven” is her 4th album. Madeline is a true master of minimal composition with songs that are mostly just guitar & voice with some occasional drum boxes & synth. Her songs are filled with longing & sadness for people & things that disappear as we live our lives. Songs like “Vanessa”, an ode to her dying van or “Killdozer”, a song about Marvin Heemeyer getting revenge on the town of Granby, CO. by destroying as much of it with his suped-up bulldozer before committing suicide. There’s a great version of the Roland S. Howard song “Autoluminescent” which she really makes her own here. Another amazing album from MIDWIFE. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.
SEEFEEL – Everything Squared LP/CD (Warp)
First new music in over a decade for Warp stalwarts SEEFEEL, who have seen some renewed interest due to recent reissues of their 90s work. Six tracks of deep, textured ambient rooted in sub-bass sound design and colored by eerie vocal samples. Excellent stuff!
NALA SINEPHRO – Endlessness LP/CD (Warp)
Gorgeous new record from London-based jazz composer NALA SINEPHRO, building up off the hype of 2021’s “Space 1.8” (unsurprisingly a favorite of ours here) with a ten-part suite of ambient third-stream. Taking a sense of mantra/motif repetition of early 70s ALICE COLTRANE with the subtlety lush dynamics of CLAUS OGERMAN’s string arrangement work – or for a recent comparison the dynamics of FLOATING POINTS / PHAROAH SANDERS’ “Promises” – SINEPHRO comes through with a meditative & impressionistic collection, again with help from Nubya Garcia and James Mollison as well as BLACK MIDI’s Morgan Simpson. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS
ALLLAH-LAS – Worship the Sun LP (Innovate Leisure)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG – Wonderful World: Best of Louis Armstrong LP (Verve)
PAT BENATAR – Crimes of Passion LP (Capitol)
PAT BENATAR – In the Heat of the Night LP (Capitol)
PAT BENATAR – Precious Time LP (Capitol)
CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN – Balcony: 10 year Anniversary LP (Capitol)
CURSIVE – Devour LP (Run For Cover)
DEFTONES – B-Sides & Rarities LP/CD (Reprise)
JOHN EARLY – Now More Than Ever LP (Thirty Tigers)
MARVIN GAYE – In the Groove LP (Motown)
DAVID GILMOUR – Luck & Strange LP/CD (Sony) color or black vinyl
DEXTER GORDON – Go LP (Blue Note) Blue Note 85 blue vinyl
GUILTY SIMPSON & SMALL PROFESSOR
VANCE JOY – Dream Your Life Away: 10th Anniversary LP (Atlantic)
ALBERT KING – Live Wire/Blues Power LP (Craft)
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS – Last Light Blues LP (Craft)
JULIE – My Anti-Aircraft Friend LP (Atlantic)
MASTODON – Leviathan: 20th Anniversary LP (Relapse) color vinyl w/ beautiful foil stamp sleeve
MJ LENDERMAN – Manning Fireworks LP/CD (Anti-)
MOLCHAT DOMA – Belaya Poloso LP/CD/CS (Sacred Bones) color or black vinyl
ALANIS MORISSETTE – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie LP (Reprise)
PRINCE LASHA – Cry LP (Craft)
PACHECO – Canonazo LP (Craft)
ARVO PART – Tabula Rasa LP (ECM)
PORCHES – Shirt LP (Domino) color or black vinyl
ASHA PUTHLI – Devil is Loose LP (Mr. Bongo) gold vinyl
REX ORANGE COUNTY – Alexander Technique LP/CD (RCA)
MAX RICHTER – In A Landscape LP (Decca)
DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES – Love Child LP (Motown)
SHELLAC – To All Trains LP (Touch & Go) back in stock!
HORACE SILVER – Song For My Father LP (Blue Note) Blue Note 85 blue vinyl
SNOW PATROL – Forest is the Path LP (Polydor)
FRANKIE STEIN – Monster Melodies LP (Real Gone)
FRANKIE STEIN – Monster Sounds & Dance Music LP (Real Gone)
SYBRIS – Gold On Hold LP (Absolutely Kosher)
TINDERSTICKS – Soft Tissue LP (City Slang)
TORO Y MOI – Hole Erth LP/CD (Dead Oceans)
WAR ON DRUGS – Live Drugs Again LP (Superior High Quality)
SUKI WATERHOUSE – Memoir of a Sparklemuffin LP/CD/CS (Sub Pop)
JACK WHITE – No Name LP/CD (Third Man) now on black vinyl & CD
WINTERFYLLETH – Imperious Horizon LP (Spinefarm)
NILUFER YANYA – My Method Actor LP/CD (Ninja Tune) two vinyl colors & limited signed copies!
NEIL YOUNG – Neil Young Archives Vol. III: Takes LP (Reprise)
NEIL YOUNG – Neil Young Archives Vol. III: 11CD box set (Reprise) Wicker Park only
ZOMBI – Cosmos: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 3LP (Relapse)