Category: New Releases

RECKLESS RECORDS 2025 YEAR END LISTS

JAMIE DRIER

MAUDE COTTONE

Lux – Rosalia
Rosalia’s multitudes are absolutely limitless !!! Keep killing it, queen.

Big City Life – Smerz
Chic, gorgeous noir pop from the Norwegian duo. Having just moved to Chicago earlier this summer from a smaller city, I found a home in this record from the moment it dropped. ‘You Got Time & I Got Money’ has such a timeless sound.

New Threats From the Soul – Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
A sophomore masterpiece on Sophomore Lounge Records! Lyrically & sonically excavating the cosmic Americana side in all of us.

Sound Bath – Coatshek
Whether it’s contemporary, out of print, or archival, Dark Entries Records releases heaters year in-year out, this being no exception. A concept record of subdued techno sculptures that are inspired by (& created for) bathhouse experiences. 

Talulah’s Tape – Good Flying Birds
A special shoutout to my Indianapolis friends, who released a 90s-inspired jangle-pop gem, full of wit, humor & meticulousness on Smoking Room & Carpark Records this year. Fun fact! I recorded this band’s very first set with a JVC camcorder back in August 2024, which later was used as audio for a cassette tape of theirs. Love y’all, GFB <3

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus – Q Lazzarus
Released as a coinciding record to a masterful documentary, this record digs up some of Q’s never before heard material. So much versatility showcased through this compilation, & someone who deserved much better when we had them. Watch the doc & listen to this asap!

Rhythm Archives – Al Wootton
A late discovery for me this year! A beautifully sculpted record of meditative explorations using vintage drum machines housed in the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio in Sydney, Australia. Somewhere in the dub/industrial/experimental/post-punk range. 

Honorable Mentions:

• Eusexua – FKA Twigs
• Fancy That – PinkPantheress
• Alfredo 2 – Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist
• Musical Chairs – Artificial Go
• Gulp – Facta
• Bleeds – Wednesday
• Ulhmann, Johnson, Wilkes – S/T
• Inland Sea – Bitchin Bajas
• Labyrinthine – Faetooth 
• The Little World Of You & Me – John Myrtle 
• I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away – Hayden Pedigo
• Caroline 2 – Caroline
• Psychedelic Cumbia Party – Los Zheros De Iquitos 
• The BPM – Sudan Archives
• The Passionate Ones – Nourished By Time
• Hexed! – aya
• Balloon Balloon Balloon & Radio DDR – Sharp Pins
• How You Been – SML
• Forever – Glyders
• Romance – Shanti Celeste 
• Pink Lady Monster – Ponk 
• Let God Sort ‘Em Out – Clipse
• Friend – james K
• A Tropical Entropy – Nick Leon
• Addison – Addison Rae

BEX WOODS

   Choke Enough – Oklou:  Electronic bliss!

   Eusexua – FKA Twigs: This year was a triphop revival across the board, but I think twigs was the first to really get it going. I love her experimental visions.

   Moisturizer – Wet Leg:  I loved their debut, but this one didn’t leave my rotation for weeks after its release.

   Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams: Any Paramore adjacent project will end up in my favorites, but wow this one really soars from top to bottom. The album release party would probably make it as my favorite “reckless moment” of the year too!

   Bleeds – Wednesday:  This band is a new one for me, but anything alternative-country-esque wins. Made me a fan!

   Addison – Addison Rae:  I mentioned triphop revival earlier…let’s stop pretending this didn’t

   exceed everyone’s expectations! Headphones On has to be one of my favorite songs of the year.

   From the Pyre – The Last Dinner Party:  I’m glad to see my stocks and investments in this band paying off. A great sophomore album from female rockers!

   Evangelic Girl is a Gun – Yeule

   Fancy That – Pink Pantheress
   Forever is a Feeling – Lucy Dacus
   A Matter of Time – Laufey
  Double Infinity – Big Thief

   Singles

   The Subway – Chappell Roan
 Second Sleep – Magdelena Bay
   Gnarly – Katseye

BONUS: Music Books I read this year that I loved

   They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us – Hanif Abdurraqib
   Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist – Liz Pelly
   Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 – Chris Payne
   Goth: A History – Lol Tolhurst
   Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion – Chris DeVille

STEVEN RAHMAN

Go back &amp; check out the bands you couldn’t quite get into… This year I can honestly say that 3 of my most favorite records were by artists I’d listened to but just couldn’t quite get into. “Snipe Hunt,” by Tyler Childers is an excellent example of what a producer can bring to a record &amp; while I’m sure there were fans who feel like they lost something with Rick Rubin’s influence, I think this was the best country record I heard this year.

“Juniper,” by Joy Crookes really surprised me. “Juniper” has occupied my thoughts for days, weeks, months… it feels like a continuation of what Amy Winehouse was doing on “Frank “Paid in Memories,” by Jessie Reyez. Jessie has shown up &amp; shown out on other people’s records, but “Paid in Memories” is the first time I’ve been hooked on a complete record by her. She’s so unique in style &amp; execution.

Sometimes it really is worth the wait…

Destin Conrad’s debut LP “Love On Digital” is as good as I could ever have hoped it would be. Conrad is charming &amp; smooth vocally, with an engaging energy that is flirty, witty, &amp; fun.

“Let God Sort ‘Em Out” by the Clipse is one of the best Hip Hop albums of the decade… just straight up brilliant from top to bottom. Excellent features. Incredible beats. Legendary rapping.

Chance The Rapper had a tough time getting “Starline” off the ground, but it might be the best writing he’s ever done. Dense &amp; layered, but catchy and listenable; it’s what Chance does better than anyone else. Except maybe J.I.D… “God Does Like Ugly” is a masterpiece. It’s some of the best rapping to come out in a year of incredible rapping. Nobody is doing it like J.I.D.

Finally getting reissues of Letters to Cleo “Wholesale Meats &amp; Fish,” &amp; “Aurora Glory Alice.” I don’t know what took so long…

Last but not least… The Legendary Roots crew with “Come Alive Too: DYWM30…” Celebrate one of the best acts to ever do it.

A couple things we never got in the store

• Open Mike Eagle “Neighborhood Gods Unlimited”
• Wretch32 “Home?”
• Dave “The Boy Who Played the Harp”
• No I.D. &amp; Saba “From the Private Collection of…”
• Big K.R.I.T. “Dedicated to the Cadalee Biarritz”
• Deante’ Hitchcock “Good Things Take Time”

LUKE DAHLGREN

ELIZA LANDERS

• Luvcat – Viciously Delicious (AWAL) When recommending I often say she’s like a “Rockstar Alice in Wonderland” version of Sabrina Carpenter. She’s got the heels and big hair but a darker, off kilter tone to her music with enough lust to go around. 
• Queens of the Stone Age – Alive in the Catacombs EP (Matador Records) I had the pleasure of getting to see this performed live and I felt like I was in the catacombs with them. I consider this one of their best pieces at the moment since the performance value in both the show and the recording really highlight their artistry. 
• Dodie – Not for a Lack of Trying (Universal Music Operations) This girl raised me. Her production on this album sounds like her voice is echoing through a cave or forest and little bugs are playing along. 
• Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans) No skips. Did I just go through all the stages of grief within 30 minutes? 
• The Last Dinner Party – From the Pyre (Universal Music Operations) lovely evolution from their debut their like if ABBA and Queen had a medieval witch baby. 
• Flipturn – Burnout Days (Dualtone Music Group) 
• Wet Leg – Moisturizer (Domino Recording Co)
• Viagra Boys – viagr aboys (Shrimptech Enterprises) 
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra – CURSE EP (Jagjaguwar)  
• Hayley Williams – Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic)  
• Wolf Alice – The Clearing (Columbia Records) 
• Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl Record Co)
• Adam Melchor – The Diary of Living (R&R / Good Boy Records) 
• Indigo De Souza – Precipice (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) 
• Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam (Run For Cover Records) 
• Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On (Matador Records) 
• Annie DiRusso – Super Pedestrian (Summer Soup Songs)
• Jay Som – Belong (Polyvinyl Record Co)

ANDIE MIN

• afi – silver bleeds the black sun
• deafheaven – lonely people with power
• oklou – choke enough
• ethel cain – perverts
• die spitz – something to consume 
• geese – getting killed
• lady gaga – mayhem
• fka twigs – eusexua (alternate version)
• agriculture – the spiritual sound
• the ophelias – spring grove
• casualshrine – earthen
• matt jencik & midwife – never die

ZACH WAGENFUEHR

• African-American Sound Recordings – Runway Cremations (D.O.T.)
• Crochet – Cherish (self-released)
• Kevin Drumm – Neither Here Nor There (Vaagner)
• Richard Dawson – End of the Middle (Weird World)
• Shallowater – God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars (self-released)
• Oren Ambarchi/ Johan Berthling/ Andreas Werliin – Ghosted III (Drag City)
• Carrier – Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love)
• Kitchen – Blue Heeler in Ugly Snowlight, Grey on Gray on Gray on White. (self-released)
• First Day Back – Forward (self-released)
• Sirom – In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper (Glitterbeat)
• Old Saw – The Wringing Cloth (Lobby Art)
• Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – In the Earth Again (Computer Students)
• Natalia Lafourcade – Cancionera (Sony)
• Mike – Showbiz! (10k)
• Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer (Warp)
• Liam Grant – Prodigal Son (VHF)
• Kiran Leonard – Small Brown Bed/ With You Waltz (self-released)
• Geese – Getting Killed (Partisan)
• Weatherday – Hornet Disaster (Topshelf)
• Valentina Magaletti & YPY – Kansai Bruises (AD93)
• Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
• The Necks – Disquiet (Northern Spy)
• Lord Snow – Have You Heard of the High Elves (self-released)
• Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark (We Are Busy Bodies)
• Juana Molina – Doga (Sonamos)
• Miffle – Goodbye, World! (self-released)
• Joanne Robertson – Blurrr (AD93)
• SML – How You Been (International Anthem)
• Believe – Spirits of the Dead Are Watching (Ramble)
• Cyrus Pireh – Thank You, Guitar (Palilalia)
• Various – Pattern Gardening (Wisdom Teeth)
• Efdemin – Poly (Ostgut Ton)
• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs (Mexican Summer)
• Hayden Pedigo – I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away (Mexican Summer)
• Fabiano – Landmarks (E35)
• Demencia Infantil – Monigote Cualquiera (self-released)
• Rafael Toral – Travelling Light (Drag City)
• Holden & Zimpel – The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community)

EL SMITH

Albums:

• CLIPSE – Let God Sort Em Out
• Rosalia – Lux
• Oklou – Choke Enough
• Model/Actriz – Pirouette
• YHWH Nailgun – 45 Pounds
• Tron: Ares – Nine Inch Nails/NIN
• Joanne Robertson – Blurrr
• Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
• JID – God Does Like Ugly
• McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive!
• Honorable Mentions:
• Geese – Getting Killed
• Polo & Pan – 22:22 
•  Rico Nasty – LETHAL
• Dean Blunt, Elias Rønnenfelt – lucre
• CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso – PAPOTA 
• Pixel Grip – Percepticide (Local!)
• Little Simz – Lotus
• Sudan Archives – THE BPM
• TOKiMONSTA – Eternal Reverie
• Princess Nokia – GIRLS

EPs: 

• Tir na nOg – Maruja
• They Left Me With A Gun – Paris Texas
• They Left Me With The Sword – Paris Texas

DAVID CARTWRIGHT

• warlock corpse – return of dark sorcery 
• JSPRV35 – skye
• inner lakes – showyu
• boris divider – in fragments
• isabella koen – fine sounds good
• blawan – sick elixir
• vc118 – avian
• trickpony – 24/7 heaven
• marcal – nature of the future
• ossuary – abhorrent worship
• sandwell district – end beginnings
• moin – you never end
• playboi carti – music
• helena hauff/ f#x – r4

COLIN BLANTON

• Aya – Hexed (hyperdub)
• Iri.gram – s/t (False Aralia)
• Esplendor Geometrico – Tarikat (Geometrik Records)
• Blawan – Sick Elixir (XL)
• SML – How You Been? (International Anthem)
• Purelink – Faith (peak oil)
• Black Sites – R4 (Tresor)
• Vehicular – S/T (False Aralia)
• Sheet Noise – Shostakovich’s 5th Played Backwards in a Concrete Silo (LIES Records)
• Externalism – S/T (False Aralia)
• Drexciya – Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I-IV (Clone)
• Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer (Warp)
• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs (Mexican Summer)
• Clock DVA – White Souls in Black Suits (Mute)
• Borez – S/T (The Trilogy Tapes)
• Los Thuthanaka – S/T (Puro Fantasia)
• MURK – MURK (Nostilevo)
• Debit – Desaceleradas (Modern Love)
• Carrier – Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love)
• Favorite show: Underworld at Radius

MATT JENCIK

• Anika Abyss
• April Magazine Sunday Music For An Overpass
• The Bats Corner Coming Up
• Blackbraid III
• Dean Blut Feat. Elias Rønnenfelt, Vegyn Lucre
• Blut Aus Nord Ethereal Horizons
• Circuit Des Yeux Halo on the Inside
• Kara-Lis Coverdale From Where You Came
• Joshua Chuquimia Crampton  Estrella Por Estrella (2024 late discovery)
• Daily Toll A Profound Non-Event
• FACS Wish Defense
• feeo Goodness
• Steve Hauschildt Aeropsia
• Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt Frkwys Vol. 18 Extended Field
• Husker Du 1985: The Miracle Year
• Cate Le Bon Michelangelo Dying
• Moin Belly Up
• Not For Radio Melt
• Paris 1942 Paris 1942 (Reissue)
• Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII
• Planning For Burial It’s Closeness, It’s Easy
• Seefeel Pure, Impure (Expanded Edition)
• Stereolab Instant Holograms on Metal Film
• Rafael Toral Traveling Light
• The Tubs Cotton Crown
• Anna Von Hausswolff Iconoclasts
• Hilary Woods Night Criu

SHOWS

• Blackbraid/Lamp of Murmuur
• Suzanne Ciani/Windy & Carl/Kara-Lis Coverdale
• Cindy Lee
• Circuit Des Yeux/FACS/Kinsella & Pulse, LLC
• ESG
• The Tubs
• Wedding Present
• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
• Yesness
• Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts

ANTHONY ILLARDE

LISTEN

• MARSHALL ALLEN New Dawn (Week-End LP)
• CINDY LEE Diamond Jubilee (W. 25th LP)
• ALICE COOPER The Revenge of Alice Cooper (Ear Music 2LP)
• FACES Early Steps (Rhino LP)
• GEESE Getting Killed (Partisan LP)
• IBEX BAND Stereo Instrumental Music (Muzikawi LP)
• DAMON LOCKS List Of Demands (International Anthem LP)
• MAZZY STAR She Hangs Brightly (Capitol LP)
• BILLY NICHOLLS Would You Believe (Charly LP)
• SHARP PINS Balloon Balloon Balloon (K LP)
• EPIC SOUNDTRACKS There’s A Light (Glass Modern LP)
• SPINAL TAP The End Continues (interscope LP)
• MAVIS STAPLES Sad & Beautiful World (Anti- LP)

READ

• HANNA-BARBERA, THE RECORDED HISTORY Greg Ehrbar (University Press of MS)
• DON’T SAY PLEASE – THE ORAL HISTORY OF DIE KREUZEN Sahan Jayasuriya (Feral House Books)
• HARDCORE PUNK IN THE AGE OF REAGAN Robert Fitzgerald (University Of North Carolina Press)
• TIMES & SEASONS – THE RISE & FALL OF THE ZOMBIES (Hozac Books)

WATCH

• BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN (Sony Pictures)
• CHEECH & CHONG’S LAST MOVIE (Keep Smokin’)
• SLY LIVES! AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS (Hulu Pictures)
• SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES (Bleeker Street Entertainment)

DYLAN SOWLE

Best Albums of 2025 (Alphabetical Order)

Big Thief – Double Infinity (4AD)
It was hard to follow up an album as solid as their 2022 Dragon New Warm Mountain… but this is yet another fantastic piece of lush indie rock from a band that keeps getting better.

Casualshrine – Earthen (Spectral Disc)
I listened to this several times this year and didn’t realize until writing this list that it was made by a fellow employee. Go figure! Cinematic, ambient techno.

Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – In The Earth Again (The Flenser)
Plenty of the honest and existential dread you love from Chat Pile, but with a softer beauty to it. Some good bad-time music.

Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out (Roc Nation)
A new Clipse record in 2025 and it’s this good?? What did we do to deserve this?

David Wise – Battletoads [Video Game Soundtrack, Reissue] (iam8bit)
Battletoads for the NES is probably the most difficult game I’ve beaten, and it’s a good thing the music is amazing because I spent a lot of time listening to it as I died over & over. Classic spacey chiptune jams.

Equip & FM Skyline – Music 2 (100% Electronica)
Babe, wake up. Music 2 just dropped. Funky vaporwave collab from two of the best in the business.

Hiroshi Yoshimura – Flora [First release outside of Japan] (Temporal Drift)
Originally released on CD in 2006, this is the first reissue of this meditative ambient masterpiece, and the first time it’s been on LP or available at all in North America. Put this on repeat and be transported.

Hole Dweller – Hole In One [7″ Single] (Dungeons Deep)
When you tell people that one of your favorite artists is “hobbit-themed dungeon synth”, they tend to look at you a certain way. But I promise that not only is it as cozy as the name suggests, but Hole Dweller’s music has a nostalgic sort of melancholy that will bring tears to your eyes. Go listen to everything this dude has to offer.

Jeanines – How Long Can It Last (Slumberland Records)
Minimal, twee, indie pop that feels like a hidden gem from decades ago.

Mahjong Master – The Mahjong Master (Equip’s Picks)
One of the legendary Equip’s many monikers, this mixtape features tons of samples from Mahjong video games, in a nice ambient, vaporwave-y package. If this kind of niche project sounds like your thing, Equip puts out an album like this every single month. Get in on it.

Matt Jencik & Midwife – Never Die (Relapse Records)
I didn’t intend to put multiple albums by people I work with on this list, but they’re just really good. Giving a hopeful new meaning to “co-worker music”.

Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer (Warp Records)
Daniel Lopatin can do no wrong. Another classic for the books.

Richard Dawson – End Of The Middle (Weird World)
A 44-year old British man singing from the perspective of an aging grandmother reflecting on her life made me cry.

Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Warp Records)
Every moment spent listening to an album by Stereolab is time well spent.

Steve Hauschildt – Aeropsia (Simul Records)
Masterfully ethereal, ambient soundscapes. Another entry in a fantastic discography.

Tuluum Shimmering – Leaping Past The Moon (Tuluum Shimmering Records)
I listened to one album by this artist on bandcamp at the beginning of the year, then I realized they have like, hundreds of incredible albums on there full of looping, droning, psych-folk tunes. And the tracks are usually at least a half hour long, so it’s great as the soundtrack to whatever you’re doing.

Vanishing Amulet – Moonlit Cryer (Dungeons Deep)
I got to watch a live set by Vanishing Amulet at the Empty Bottle when they opened up for Hole Dweller. Kind of like seeing the Phantom of the Opera doing a residency at a dive bar. Some real haunted house dungeon synth.

Various Artists – The Style Of Life (Numero Group)
I’ll let this delightfully absurd, multi-hyphenate description from Numero Group do the talking: “70 minutes of wine cooler-core, consumer-grade smooth jazz CD-Rs, aerobic proto-vape VHS, and elevator-grade library music tape loops”.

Warlock Corpse – Melodies For Ghosts (Out Of Season)
Spooky, dark, dungeon synth from Kazakhstan. Makes me feel like I’m a wandering samurai about to get haunted by some vengeful spirits.

MADI ORTEGA

• Dirty Projectors – Song of the Earth
• Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
• John Maus – Later Than You Think
• Geese – Getting Killed 
• ROSALÍA – LUX
• Nilüfer Yanya – Dancing Shoes
• Kaki King – Sei
• My favorite album I came across this year—although it’s not a 2025 release—is La Mar Enfortuna’s Convivencia. It’s a must-listen!

LIDIA VILLA

QUAL
Album: Love Zone
My jam: Teck Neck

A.F.I. 
Album: Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…
My jam: Marguerite

H.A.L.T. 
Album: II
My jam: In Time

JAIL
Album: Rotations of Rot Stations of Fear
My jam: Psychological Hygiene 

WESLEY & THE BOYS
Album: Rock & Roll Ruined My Life
My jam: Switchblade Twist

INVUNCHE
Album: Cuentos Viejos
My jam: Cuentos Viejos

LATHE OF HEAVEN
Album: Aurora
My jam: Exodus

SMUT
Album: Tomorrow Comes Crashing 
My jam: Dead Air

IRON YEARS
Album: Rituals
My Jam: This Isn’t US 

GINA X
Album: Greatest Fits
My jam: No G.D.M.

SAMUEL BROWN

• Bassvictim – Forever
• Cities Aviv – Electric Chair
• Daily Toll – A Profound Non-Event
• Dean Blunt, Elias Ronnenfelt- lucre
• Deadharrie – Slow Rock
• Deadharrie – Blue Coffin
• dj blackpower – Dr. Grabba II
• DJ Haram – Beside Myself
• Eterna – Ants
• Eterna – Debunker
• Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes – Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
• JAY ELECTRONICA – ten Testimony: Power At The Rate Of My Dreams
• Jim Legxacy – black british music (2025)
• Joanne Robertson – Blurrr
• lots of hands – into a pretty room
• MIKE – Showbiz!
• Moin – Belly Up
• nina, Orazio – Discordia
• Niontay – Fada<3of$
• Niontay – Soulja Hate Repellant
• Oklou – choke enough
• Olivia O. – Telescope
• Six Sex – X-sex
• Ssaliva – 7ep
• Teethe – Magic of the Sale
• They are Gutting a Body of Water – LOTTO
• Total Wife – come back down
• username – epiphanies
• Winter – Adult Romantix​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

JOLIE THOMPSON

In no particular order!

• Talulah’s Tape – Good Flying Birds
• Slacker – Orua
• Goodness – feeo
• Love is a Dog from Hell – Forty Winks
• Scarecrow II – Telephone Numbers
• Forward – First Day Back
• Passionate Ones – Nourished by Time
• Ebo Taylor JID022 (Jazz is Dead) – Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
• lucre – Dean Blunt, Elias Ronnenfelt
• Don’t Tap the Glass – Tyler the Creator
• Virgin – Lorde
• Bleeds – Wednesday
• Luminescent Creatures – Ichiko Aoba
• A Life on Sweets Alone – Josie
• Gadabout Season – Brandee Younger
  What Do You Do All Day? – Autocamper

TIM QUINLAN

• Black Swan by Pink Turns Blue
• Music 2 by FM Skyline & Equip
• From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID by Saba and No ID
• Cult of the Serpent Moon by Nite
• Thoughts of You by Salvator Dragatto (Honorable Mention – overlooked 2024 release.)
• She Comes From Nowhere by Neggy Gemma
• Flowers by Durand Jones & the Indications
• Alfredo 2 by Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist
• God Does Love Ugly by JID
• The Coldest Profession by DJ Premier & Roc Marciano
• Secret Communication by Soshi Takeda (2024 Late Discovery)
• 8/30 by Curren$y
• Feel the Teeth by The Casket Lottery
• Don’t Tap the Glass by Tyler the Creator
• Never Die by Matt Jencik and Midwife
• Let God Sort ‘em Out by Clipse
• Que Largo es el Verano by Linda Mirada
• Private Music by Deftones
• AFIM by Ze Ibarra
• Impromptu Adventure (Single) by Roman Flugel & Gee Dee
• Tranquilizer by Oneohtrix Point Never
• Brand New Life by Brandee Younger
• Hi Top Fade by Cool Kids
• Something to Consume by Die Spitz
• Que Largo es el Verano by Linda Mirada
• Stereo Instrumental Music by Ibex Band
• AM by Juicy J & Endea Owens (Single – this song is ridiculous)
• Deluxe Edition by Nihilistic Easyrider
• Sad by Ikonika
• Salt by Tomorrows Kings
• Cannibals of Unaka by US Christmas
• Hooked on You by Midnight Premiere
• Who Let the Dogs Out by Lambrini Girls

FRIENDS

EMILY ELHAJ (Musician/Mother)

ALBUMS

Yves Moon (Cedars Sinai)
Okonski Entrance Music (Colemine)
Michael Hurley Broken Homes & Gardens (No Quarter)
Dungen Snurra På Hjulet (Mexican Summer)
Nona Invie Self-soothing (Boiled)
Voice Actor, Squu Lust (1) (Stroom)
Little Barrie, Malcolm Catto Electric War (Easy Eye Sound)
Duval Timothy wishful thinking (Carrying Colour)
Caroline Rose Year of the Slug (self)
Maria Somerville Luster (4AD)
Everything Is Recorded Richard Russell Is Temporary (XL)
Matt Jencik & Midwife Never Die (Relapse)
Beak> War Child 7” (Friendly)
April Magazine Falling Window EP (self)
Hanoun Brass Band “Ana Dammi Falastini” (self)
Sharp Pins Radio DDR (perennial)
Little Simz Lotus (AWAL)
Dijon Baby (Warner)
Harry the Nightgown Ugh (Leaving)
Richard Dawson End of the Middle (Domino)
Wilson Tanner Legends (Efficient Space)
Cass McCombs Interior Live Oak (Domino)
Pure Link Faith (Peak Oil)
Insecure Men A Man For All Seasons (Fat Possum)
The Innocence Mission The Raindrop Cars (Théresè)
Now Always Fades Into the Doldrums (Northern Underground)
Chalk Cross (Vettraino/Lesicko) s/t (self)
Colter Wall Memories & Empties (Black Hole)
v/a Imaginational Anthem vol. XIV: Ireland (Tompkins Square)
v/a In Search of Revolutionary Voices: Mexican Wax Cylinder Recordings, 1900-1910 (Death Is Not The End)
v/a Five Years Of Failure (Discreet Music)
v/a Super Bloom: A Benefit for Fire Relief in Los Angeles

Documentary: The Encampments, Michael Workman & Kei Pritsker (Watermelon Pictures)

Book: Soul Music of Illinois – An Illustrated Catalog of Records Compiled by Dante Carfagna

REISSUES

Stereolab (Duophonic)
Drop Nineties 1991 (Wharf Cat)
Various Artists Rough Trade 45s: Volume 1 (Rough Trade)

SHOWS

Mercury Rev, Zebulon
Maia Friedman, Glass Hill
Bill Frisell, Zebulon
Stereolab, Bellwether
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, Zebulon
SML, Zebulon

PHILLIP CERZA (Old Town School of Folk Music)

• Ash Souvenir // Ragana & Drowse
• Bleeds // Wednesday
• Caveman Wakes Up // Friendship
• Ego Death… // Hayley Williams
• Getting Killed // Geese
• Let God Sort Em Out // Clipse
• Mayhem // Lady Gaga
• Phonetics On & On // Horsegirl
• The Spiritual Sound // Agriculture
• Trailblazer // Lola Kirke

DAVE MARTIN (Tour Manager/Record Store Enthusiast)

New LPs

• Ed Kuepper / Jim White – After The Flood – 12XU
• The Ex – If Your Mirror Breaks – Ex Records
• Major Stars – More Colors of Sound – Drag City
• Michael Beach – Big Black Plume – Goner
• Helene Barbier – Panorama – Bonsound
• Educated Fools – Tantric Decapitation… – Total Punk
• FACS – Wish Defense – Trouble In Mind
• Verity Den – Wet Glass – Amish
• Orcutt Shelly Miller – A Star Is Born – Silver Current
• Gotobeds – Masterclass – 12XU
• Matt Jencik & Midwife – Never Die – Relapse
• Mourning {A} BLKstar – Flowers For the Living – Don Giovanni
• Just Mustard – We Were Just Here – Partisan
• Mess Esque – Jay Marie, Com – Drag City
• Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning – Metal Blade
• Lavender Flu – Tracing the Sand By the Pool – In The Red
• Bleak Squad – S/T – Poison City
• Golomb – The Beat Goes On – No Quarter
• Midnight Mines – Feel I’m Slipping Away – Minimum Table Stacks
• Water Damage – Instruments – 12XU
• Nape Neck – The Shallowest End – Dot Dash
• Leopardo – Side A, Side B – Dot Dash
• Daily Toll – A Profound Non Event – Tough Love
• Chimers – Through Today – 12XU 
• The Bats – Corner Coming Up – Flying Nun

REISSUES

• Word Of Pooh – Tight & Loose – Bulbous Monocle
• The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show – Down There
• Trad Gras Och Stenar – S/T – Silence
• White Heaven – Souvenir 1995 – Pedal Records
• Cheater Slicks – Don’t Like You + Live Series – In The Red / Almost Ready
• VIA – S/T – Dromedary
• The Fall – Seminal Live – Beggars Banquet
• Galaxie 500 – CBGB 12.13.88 – Silver Current
• The Drags -Dragsploitation Now, Stop Rock And Roll, & Set Fit Right To Blow Up LPs – Total Punk
• We Were Living In Cincinnati Vol 2 – Hozac
• Scratch Acid box set – Touch & Go
• Sun Ra – Hidden Fire Pts 1 & 2 – Strut

Singles / EPs / Digital Things

• Hobknobs – Gather No Moss – Self Released
• Blank Account – On The QT – Self Released
• FADENSONNEN – Nitroglycerin – b/w I’m The Knife
• Quite Ridiculous Nonsense – A Failure… – Celluloid Lunch / Sweet Rot
• V/A – Weird Scenes From Inside The Droll Mind – Celluloid Lunch
• Hard Quartet – Lies (Something You Can Do) b/w Coreopsis Trail – Matador
• The Jesus Lizard – Flux – Ipecac
• Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Shapes And Forms – Cool Death
• Nice Smile / Pissed Off Zombies – It’s A Mess b/w Garbage – Total Punk
• Unemployee – Gonnae No b/w Mr. Scissors – Self Released

RECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY 2025

These titles DID NOT ARRIVE. It’s possible that we’ll get them on Friday or after that but we can’t guarantee it so if you’re looking for these please check with other shops in town. Apologies

INXS Live From Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986 Rhino LP

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Seek & Listen: Live At The Penthouse Resonance Records 2LP

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Vibrations In The Village: Live At The Village Gate Resonance Records 2LP

Here’s what we will have!

LP

A-ha Take on Me (40th Anniversary EP Rhino 12″ EP

Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria Sumerian Records 2LP

Albert Ayler & Don Cherry Europe 1964 (Box Set) ORG MUSIC 4LP box

The B-52s Wild Planet Rhino LP Picture Disc

Bad Brains Live at the Bayou: Washington D.C. July 14, 1980 / March 15, 1981 Time Traveler Recordings 2LP

The Band Jericho BFD 2LP

James Bay Chaos and The Calm Mercury/Republic Records LP

Ray Barretto Together Craft Recordings LP

Big Head Todd and the Monsters Sister Sweetly Real Gone Music LP

Black Kids Partie Traumatic (Deluxe Edition) Echo Base LP

Bluey Bluey the Album – 5th Birthday Zoetrope Edition Demon Records 2LP

Benson Boone Pulse Warner Records 12″ EP

Bratmobile The Real Janelle & The Peel Session Kill Rock Stars LP

Breather Resist Charmer Jade Tree LP

Eric Burdon & War The Very Best of Eric Burdon & War Rhino 2LP

Cage The Elephant Live From The Vic In Chicago Legacy Recordings 2LP

Eric Carr from KISS Rockology: The Liquid Vinyl Numbered Edition Culture Factory USA LP    

    Belmont & Wicker Park only

Phil Collins 12″ers Rhino 12″ EP

Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare Live From the Forum 6/17/75 Rhino 2LP

Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House Riviera ’76 Culture Factory USA LP

Creed Live In San Antonio (11/14/1999) Craft Recordings 2LP

Curren$y Pilot Talk II Jet Life Recordings / Pilot Talk LP

Ronnie D’Addario Written By Ronnie D’Addario Omnivore Recordings LP

Miles Davis Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965 – Second Set Legacy Recordings 2LP

The Dead Milkmen Big Lizard in My Backyard (40th Anniversary) The Giving Groove 2LP

John Debney The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water (10th Anniversary Edition) Varèse 

    Sarabande LP Picture Disc

Deee-Lite The Very Best of Deee-Lite Rhino  2LP

Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030: 25th Anniversary Deltron Partners 2LP

Devo Merry Something To You Rhino 12″ Picture Disc

Disclosure The Singles, Vol. 2 BlueWerks 12″ EP

Doctor Who The Last Voyage Demon Records 2LP

The Doors Live in Copenhagen, 1968 Rhino 2LP

Dr. Dre Compton (A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre) (Instrumental Edition) Interscope 2LP

Dying Fetus “Into The Cesspool” Relapse Records 12″ DieCut Picture Disc

Bob Dylan The Original Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Legacy Recordings LP

Danny Elfman Big Top Pee-Wee (The Original Soundtrack Album) Legacy Recordings LP Picture Disc

En Vogue Born To Sing Get On Down LP

The English Beat The Beat at The BBC Rhino 2LP

Bill Evans Portraits At The Penthouse: Live in Seattle Resonance Records LP

Sierra Ferrell Trail of Flowers Rounder Records LP Picture Disc

The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots – Live at the Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, August 30, 2024 Rhino 2LP

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac: Live 1975 Rhino 2LP

Fred Again… Actual Life Piano Live (20th November 2024) IRL003 Atlantic Records LP

Fred Again… Actual Life 2 Piano Live (20th March, 2022) IRL004 Atlantic Records LP

Fred Again… Actual Life 3 Piano Live (22nd December 2022) IRL005 Atlantic Records LP

GHOST-NOTE Fortified Mixto Records LP

Ghost Skeleta Loma Vista Recordings LP Picture Disc

Glorilla Ehhthang Ehhthang Interscope 2LP

Good Kid Good Kid 1 2 3 4 Many Hats Distribution 2LP

Grateful Dead The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Oct 4 & 6, 1980 Rhino 2LP

Grateful Dead On The Back Porch Vol 2 Rhino LP

Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas (60th Anniversary) Pop-Up Gatefold LP Craft Recordings LP

Charlie Haden Live At The Jazz Record Mart Delmark Records LP

George Harrison Living In The Material World Dark Horse Records LP Zoetrope

Karly Jartzman & MJ Lenderman Live at Third Man Records LP

The Head and the Heart Ghosts In The Machinery Verve 12″ EP

John Lee Hooker Chill Out (30th Anniversary) BMG LP

Icona Pop I Love It (Feat. Charli XCX) Rhino 12″ EP

Billy Idol 77 BMG / Dark Horse Records 12″ Picture Disc

In Flames Breathing Fire – In Flames Live 2024 Nuclear Blast LP Picture Disc Belmont & Wicker Park only

INXS Live From Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986 Rhino LP these did not arrive, hoping we’ll get them Friday

Jazz Sabbath Jazz Sabbath Live Blacklake 2LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Jelly Roll Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up The Pieces) Republic Records LP

Billy Joel Live From Long Island Legacy Recordings 3LP

David Johansen and the Harry Smiths David Johansen And The Harry Smiths Chesky Records LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Elton John & Brandi Carlile Who Believes In Angels? Live At The London Palladium Interscope LP

Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist Life Is Beautiful (Chopped Not Slopped) The Freeminded Records / 2 Chainz / ALC / EMPIRELP

Junior M.A.F.I.A. Been Gettin’ Money (The Get Money 30th Anniversary 12″) Rhino 12″ EP

B.B. King Broadcasting The Blues: Live From Germany and Sweden Time Traveler Recordings 2LP

Marcus King No Room For Blue Republic Records 12″ EP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Seek & Listen: Live At The Penthouse Resonance Records 2LP these did not arrive, hoping we’ll get them Friday

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Vibrations In The Village: Live At The Village Gate Resonance these did not arrive, hoping we’ll get them Friday

La Luz Extra! Extra! Sub Pop 12″ EP

Ladytron Nightlife Nettwerk 2LP

Yusef Lateef Golden Flower: Live in Sweden Elemental Music Records 2LP

Bill Lee The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe – A Spirit Speaks (DELUXE EDITION) 

    Strata-East Records LP

Little Brother The Minstrel Show: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Imagine Nation Music 2LP

LOVE The Complete Elektra Albums Rhino 5LP box

G. Love & Special Sauce Ode to R.L. Boyce GL Records LP

Madness Hit Parade The state51 Conspiracy LP

Maitreya Kali (Craig Smith) Apache-Inca (Deluxe Box Set) Flatiron Recordings 2LP

Post Malone Long Bed Mercury/Republic Records LP

Briston Maroney Briston Maroney – Live At Red Rocks Atlantic Records 2LP

Matchbox Twenty Mad Season (Live 2001) 2LP

Curtis Mayfield Curtis (Rhino Reserve) Rhino LP

Joni Mitchell Rolling Thunder Revue Rhino LP

Montrose/Sammy Hagar Live 1973-KSAN Radio Session Friday Music LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Mötley Crüe Home Sweet Home BMG 12″ EP Picture Disc

Motörhead Live at Brixton ’87 BMG LP

Larry Mullins + Mike Watt We Will Fall ORG MUSIC LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive Earache Records LP

Randy Newman Trouble in Paradise: Demos Rhino LP

Nico Live in Reims Cathedral, 1974 Culture Factory USA LP

The Notorious B.I.G. Big Poppa (Remix) Rhino 12″ EP

O.A.R. Live From Madison Square Garden ATO Records 3LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Ol’ Dirty Bastard Shimmy Shimmy Ya / Brooklyn Zoo Rhino 12″ Single

Old & In The Way Live at Sonoma State – 11/4/73 Round Records 2LP

OTTTO Sweaty Pool ORG MUSIC 12″ EP

Longineu Parsons Longineu Parsons Ubiquity Records LP

Charley Patton The Father of Delta Blues: Selections from Paramount Recordings, Vol. 2 ORG MUSIC LP

Pelican What We All Come To Need & Ephemeral Southern Lord 3LP

Linda Perry In Flight Kill Rock Stars 2xLP  Belmont & Wicker Park only

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers The Live Anthology – From The Vaults Vol. 1 Warner Records 2LP

Ramones Live at CBGB, 1977 Rhino LP

Ratt Invasion of Your Privacy (40th Anniversary) BMG 12″ EP

Jonathan Richman You Must Ask The Heart (30th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings LP

Robbie Robertson Filmworks: Insomnia Omnivore Recordings LP

ROLE MODEL Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye) Interscope 2LP

The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request ABKCO LP Zoetrope

Linda Ronstadt The Early Years Iconic Artists Group 2LP

Todd Rundgren A Capella Rhino LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Season To Risk In A Perfect World Spartan Records LP

Alan Silvestri The Back To The Future Trilogy Varèse Sarabande LP

Sleigh Bells Treats Mom+Pop LP

Slo Burn Amusing The Amazing ORG MUSIC 12″ EP

Son Volt Trace (30th Anniversary) Rhino 2LP

Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom Remixes Round Hill LP

Spinal Tap The End Continues RSD Excl. Vinyl Interscope LP

The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus (2025 Remaster) Rhino LP

Sugar Copper Blue: The Singles Collection BMG 4X12″ box

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Forever, I’ve Been Being Born Southern Lord LP

Talking Heads Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live Rhino LP + 7″ Single

Tangerine Dream Live at Place des Arts, Montreal – April 10, 1977 Culture Factory USA 3LP

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Live From The Ash Grove Liberation Hall LP

Thievery Corporation Radio Retaliation Thievery Corporation 2 LP

Touché Amoré Chasing Brightness: The Complete BBC Sessions 2011-2025 BMG 2LP

2 Chainz T.R.U. REALigion (Anniversary Edition) 2 Chainz 2LP

Various Artists Flowers In the Afternoon: Late 1960’s Sunshine Craft Recordings LP

Various Artists Jazz Dispensary: Green Bullets Craft Recordings LP

Various Artists Metal Machine Music: Power to Consume, Vol. 1 Legacy Recordings 2LP

Various Artists Punk Goes Acoustic Craft Recordings LP

Various Artists Rent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Rhino 2LP

Various Artists Rock The Plaza: Concert To Save The Historic Plaza Theatre In Palm Springs Omnivore Recordings LP

Various Artists Watchmen (Music From The Motion Picture) Rhino LP Picture Disc

Various Artists What’s This World Coming To: Garage Rock From The Sun Records VaultSun Records Zoetrope LP

Various Artists Wicked For Good: The Soundtrack Republic Records 2LP Picture Disc alternate

   Cover art w/ poster

Van Halen Live at Wembley 1995 Rhino LP

Voivod Lost Machine – Live Limited Run Vinyl/Brutal Planet Records 2LP

T-Bone Walker T-Bone Blues (Expanded) Rhino LP + 10″ Single

Ween Shinola, Vol. 1 Rhino LP

Wilco/Jeff Tweedy/Daniel Johnston dBpm 15 dBpm LP

Witch Fool’s Ride Now-Again Records LP

Bobby Womack Live in London Prestige Elite 2LP

Dwight Yoakam And Then I Wrote… The First Three Albums Of The ’90s Rhino 4LP box

Young Fresh Fellows Loft Yep Roc Records LP Wicker Park only

Lester Young Lester Leaps In: Live At Birdland 1951 – 1952 Liberation Hall LP Belmont & Wicker Park only

Warren Zevon Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival Omnivore Recordings 2LP

Jeremy Zuckerman Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 1: Water (Music From The Animated Series )Republic Records 2LP

7″

Jhene Aiko Guidance / Sun/Son Def Jam 7″ Vinyl

The Dillinger Escape Plan “Under The Running Board” Relapse Records 7″ Vinyl

Bob Dylan Masters Of War (Live In Alan Lomax’s Apartment) Legacy Recordings 7″ Vinyl

Illenium In My Arms/Refuge Republic Records 7″ Picture Disc THESE SHIPPED LATE, SHOULD BE HERE FRIDAY

Kesha Holiday Road Kesha Records 7″ Vinyl

Led Zeppelin “Trampled Under Foot” Swan Song 7″ Vinyl

Mister Romantic (John C. Reilly) Dream A Little Dream of Me Eternal Magic Recordings 7″ Vinyl

Olivia Newton-John Xanadu – Live & Remixed Olivia Newton-John 7″ Vinyl Wicker Park Only

Prince & The Revolution Around The World in A Day Legacy Recordings 5 x 7″ Box Set

Chappell Roan The Subway/The Giver Island 7″ Vinyl

10″

Matt Berninger Get Sunk At Union Chapel: Live Concord Records 10″ EP

Billie Eilish Live Interscope 10″ EP

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Live in 24′ Having Fun DieCut 10” EP

Bruno Mars It’s Better If You Don’t Understand Atlantic Records EP 10” EP

CD 

Grateful Dead The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Oct 4 & 6, 1980 Rhino 2CD

David Johansen and the Harry Smiths David Johansen And The Harry Smiths Chesky Records SACD Wicker Park only

Bobby Womack Live in London Prestige Elite CD Belmont & Wicker Park only

Cassette

Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030: 25th Anniversary Deltron Partners Cassette

Turntables

Wicked CR8005F-PW Pink Wicked Cruiser Turntable Crosley Turntable

Wicked CR8005F-EW Emerald Wicked Cruiser Turntable Crosley Turntable

Reckless Records 11/21/25 NEW RELEASES

BLOC PARTY – Silent Alarm:20th Anniversary 4LP/LP/2CD (PIAS)

The classic 2005 album by the great British band is finally available again. The expanded edition features B-Sides, demos & live sessions.

GLYDERS – Forever LP/CS (Drag City

GLYDERS are a talented trio from Chicago. Their sound is a mix of 60s rock with some hints of 80s new wave & power pop. The songs are tight & crisp with minimal effects & appropriately dead drum sounds. GLYDERS live somewhere in between CRAZY HORSE & TY SEGALL & that works for us. Also, Reckless alum Joe Seeger is behind the kid! RECOMMENDED

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – Tranquilizer LP/CD (Warp)

Daniel Lopatin returns to his moniker ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, following collaborations with THE WEEKND and Josh Safdie on the “Marty Supreme” soundtrack, pulling from an Internet Archive trove of commercial samples for a dense, dynamic exercise in jazz-dance sound design. There’s a sense of cut-n-paste kosmische here that is reminiscent of artists like FLYING LOTUS and KAYTRANADA at their most abstract, and for all of the bombast of its maximalist moments, “Tranquilizer” has periods of muted gentleness that touches on BURIAL- esque hypnagogia. On Warp and RECOMMENDED. 

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

AEROSMITH & YUNGBLUD – One More Time 12” (Capitol)

BEATLES – Anthology Collection 12 LP box set (Capitol)

BEATLES – Anthology Vol. Four LP (Capitol)

CHAT PILE/HAYDEN PEDIGO – In the Earth Again LP (The Flenser) color or black

DESCENDENTS – I Don’t Want To Grow Up LP/CD/CS (ORG)

DIJON – Baby LP/CD (Warner) 2 different vinyl colors

BILL EVANS – Haunted Heart: Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings 5LP (Craft)

JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN – Not For Kids: Deluxe Edition LP (Round)

ANDREW HILL – Judgement! LP (Blue Note) classic vinyl series

LSD & THE SEARCH FOR GOD – Heaven is a Place: Deluxe Edition LP (Don Giovanni)

LSD & THE SEARCH FOR GOD – LSD & the Search For God LP (Don Giovanni)

JOHNNY MARR – Messenger LP (BMG)

JACKIE MCLEAN – One Step Beyond LP (Blue Note) classic vinyl series

WES MONTGOMERY – Boss Guitar LP (Craft)

MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Loveless LP (Domino) back in stock!

PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION – Around the World in a Day LP/2CD (Sony)

REPLACEMENTS – Let It Be Deluxe Edition 4LP/3CD (Rhino)

SONNY ROLLINS – Plus 4 LP (Craft)

MASAYOSHI TAKANAKA – Alone w/ 7” LP (Universal Japan)

MASAYOSHI TAKANAKA – Rainbow Goblins LP (Universal Japan)

MASAYOSHI TAKANAKA – T-Wave LP (Universal Japan)

TAME IMPALA – Deadbeat LP (Columbia) blue vinyl SOLD OUT

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Royal Tenebaums (Soundtrack) LP (Hollywood)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Wicked For Good (Soundtrack) LP/CD (Republic)

VOIDZ – Megz of Ram 10” (Cult)

VOIDZ – Tyranny LP (Cult)

Reckless Records 10/31/25 NEW RELEASES

DANIEL AVERY – Tremor LP/CD (Domino) red or black

This 2025 album from UK producer DANIEL AVERY blends subterranean dub techno, ambient trip-hop and a touch of shoegaze, evoking contemporaries like KEDR LIVANSKY and KELLY LEE OWENS as well as SEEFEEL, PORTISHEAD and MASSIVE ATTACK.

CINDY LEE – Cat O’ Nine Tails LP (W.25TH)

Back in 2020 this music was originally released in a hyper limited run of 50 lathe-cut LPS & now it’s finally available to the masses. A mix of incidental synth & organ instrumentals & out of time rock & roll ballads that you can imagine blasting out of cheap portable radio somewhere at sunset.RECOMMENDED.

PATRICK COWLEY – Hard Ware LP (Dark Entries)

Dark Entries has slowly been revealing the ridiculously deep treasure trove of unreleased material by the late Patrick Cowley. “Tech-No” is a dark & rich track that would sit well next to any KRAFTWERK klassic. “Jungle Jump” is a dance floor filler & all of this is just more proof of the genius Cowley left behind. Recommended.

DEMIAN – Demian (reissue) LP (Riding Easy)

BUBBLE PUPPY FANS!! After the members of the great 60s texas psych rock band relocated to L.A. they decided to change their name to DEMIAN. They released this excellent album on ABC in 1970 & then faded away. Nods at their BUBBLE PUPPY past, hints of STEPPENWOLF, SUGARLOAF & NAZARETH with some great dueling guitar leads. 

GUIDED BY VOICES – Thick, Rich & Delicious LP/CD (GBV)

Bob Pollard is back with his musical drinking buddies in 2025 with an album that to our ears shows his love for THE WHO. Late 60’s British psychedelia is the name of the game this time around which is more than fine with us. 

ONE OF NINE – Dawn of the Iron Shadow LP/CD (Profound Lore)

ONE OF NINE is a black metal band from North Carolina that is heavily inspired by the JRR TOLKIEN universe. Melodic black metal with some sonic nods at stuff like WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, WINTERFYLLETH etc… with some occasional folky elements. Good stuff. 

RADIOACTIVITY – Time Won’t Bring Me Down LP/CD (Wild Honey)

It’s been 10 long years since the last RADIOACTIVITY album. Jeff Burke (also of MARKED MEN, THE REDS  etc…) is one of the best songwriters in this style & he’s joined by members of MIND SPIDERS & BAD SPORTS for this amazing collection of melodic rockers. 

RADIOHEAD – Hail to the Thief: Live Recordings 2003-2009 LP/CD (XL) red or black vinyl

While arranging music for the Hamlet Hail to the Thief Shakespeare adaptation Thom Yorke went back & listened to some live recordings from the era & was so impressed the band decided to release them & we’re thankful for it. The band was absolutely COOKING in the oughts & these live recordings prove it. This is probably the band’s most underrated album in our humble opinion so this live album is much appreciated. RECOMMENDED!

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

BEL-AIR LIP BOMBS – Again LP/CD (Third Man) 

BLONDIE – No Exit: Expanded Edition LP (BMG)

BLOOD BROTHERS – Crimes LP (Epitaph) color vinyl reissue

BUFFALO TOM – Sleepy Eyed LP (Beggars Banquet)

DEPECHE MODE – Exciter LP (Sony)

DEPECHE MODE – 101 Live LP (Sony)

DEPECHE MODE – Playing the Angel LP (Sony)

DEPECHE MODE – Some Great Reward LP (Sony)

DEVO – Energy Dome Frequencies: Songs From the Devo Documentary LP (Rhino)

BOB DYLAN – Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window 1956-1963 4LP/8CD or 2CD (Legacy)

EFFIGIES – Fly On a Wire LP (BFD) Chicago classic available again!

ROGER ENO – Without Wind/Without Air LP (Deutsch Gramophone)

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – Everybody Scream LP/CD (Polydor) 3 different LP editions

LUDWIG GORANSSON – Sinners (Soundtrack) LP/CD (Mutant)

HILDUR GUONADOTTIR – Where to From LP (Deutsch Gramophone)

GRIZZLY BEAR – Painted Ruins LP (Warp)

GRIZZLY BEAR – Shields  LP (Warp)

GRIZZLY BEAR – Veckatamist LP (Warp)

GRIZZLY BEAR – Yellow House LP (Warp)

SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS – I Put a Spell On You LP (Charly)

HOT MULLIGAN – I Won’t Reach Out to You LP (Wax Bodega)

JIMIN – Muse LP (BigHit)

KID CUDI – Free LP (Republic) color or black

LEMONHEADS – Come On Feel the Lemonheads LP (Fire) 

LEMONHEADS – Lovey LP (Fire) blue vinyl reissue

MAXIMO PARK – Certain Trigger/Missing Songs LP (PIAS) 

LIN MANUEL-MIRANDA & CAST – Hamilton: 10 Shots LP/CD 

NEW ORDER – Brotherhood LP (Rhino) 

NEW ORDER – Low-LifeLP (Rhino) 

NEW ORDER – Movement LP (Rhino) 

NEW ORDER – Power, Corruption & Lies LP (Rhino) 

OF MONSTERS & MEN – All Is Love & Pain in the Mouse Parade LP (Skarkali)

OUTKAST – Stankonia:25th Anniversary 3LP (Sony) anniversary edition with alternate art on purple vinyl

PRIMITIVE MAN – Observance LP/CD (Relapse)

RAMONES – Pet Semetary 12” (Rhino) 80s horror classic available again on Halloween

RILO KILEY – Under the Blacklight LP (Warner)

RITUAL HOWLS – Ruin LP (Dais)

CLAIRE ROUSAY – A Little Death LP (Thrill Jockey) 

SEX PISTOLS – Never Mind the Bollocks…LP (Warner) clear vinyl

THE STOOGES – Fun House (Alternate Version) LP (Rhino)

SUBHUMANS – Demolition War Demos LP (Sealed)

TYLER THE CREATOR – Chromakopia LP/CD (Columbia)

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA – Curse 12” (Jagjaguwar)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Twilight (Soundtrack) Atlantic

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Twilight: Eclipse (Soundtrack) Atlantic

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Twilight: New Moon (Soundtrack) Atlantic

THE WHO – Who Are You LP/4LP/7CD/2CD (Geffen)

CHELSEA WOLFE – Abyss: 10 Year Anniversary LP (Sargent House)

HILARY WOODS – Night Criu LP/CD (Sacred Bones)

WARREN ZEVON – Excitable Boy LP (Rhino) Rhino Reserve

ZZ TOP – Afterburner LP (Rhino) Rhino Reserve remaster

ZZ TOP – Degüello LP (Rhino) Rhino Reserve remaster

ZZ TOP – El Loco  LP (Rhino) Rhino Reserve remaster

ZZ TOP – Eliminator LP (Rhino) Rhino Reserve remaster

ZZ TOP – Recycler LP (Rhino) Rhino Reserve remaster

Apologies for the lack of posts, we have been absolutely inundated with listening parties, in-stores, festivals & off sight events we’ve barely been able to keep up. Things are more or less back to normal so we’ll get back to regular programming.

Reckless Records 9/26/25 NEW RELEASES

BLACKBRAID III LP/CD/CS (Wolf Mountain)

BLACKBRAID is the solo black metal project of Jon Krieger, an indigenous musician from the Adirondack Mountains in New York. This native Mexican musician also goes by Sgahgahsowh a Mohawk name that means the Witch Hawk! Incredible melodic black metal with plenty of crisp acoustic passages & sounds of crackling fires. This reminds us of everything from DISSECTION (not a comparison we throw around lightly) & other melodic greats like WINTERFYLLETH. This third album shows BLACKBRAID growing into one of the finest active black metal bands around. The sold out 2025 tour is coming through Chicago! RECOMMENDED.

NEKO CASE – Neon Grey Midnight Green LP/CD (Anti-) we have free notebooks, pencils & patches with purchase at Belmont & Wicker Park while supplies last!

One of our all-time favorite artists has returned with a new album in 2025. As Always Neko’s voice is bigger than life, filling every bit of space possible in the most beautifulways. The biggest change this time comes from Tom Hagerman of  DeVotchKa who helped arrange the lush strings that dominate most of the songs which all blends with Neko’s voice wonderfully. Another amazing addition to her deep discography. 

JOSHUA CHUQUIMIA CRAMPTON – Estrella Por Estrella LP (Puro Fantasia)

JOSHUA CHUQUIMIA CRAMPTON – 4 LP (Puro Fantasia)

JOSHUA CHUQUIMIA CRAMPTON – Profundo Amo LP  (Puro Fantasia)

We’ve recently become obsessed by the California based musician Joshua Chuquimia Crampton’s solo guitar music. There’s tons of distortion and what we think is an octave pedal totally cranked. We suppose you could say there are “riffs” but it doesn’t really listen that way. Fans of early 00s noise & drone like stuff on labels such as Important, Root Strata & even 90s noise like DEAD C will want to check this RECOMMENDED.

CATE LE BON – Michelangelo Dying LP/CD (Mexican Summer) with signed print while supplies last! 

The Welsh musician Cate Le Bon has made some of the most captivating albums of the last decade not only as a musician but as a producer. Her 2025 album finds her at the top of the heap of modern art rock. Brian Eno’s pop records have been a major comparison on the last few & that continues here along with nods at 80s Bowie, TALKING HEADS, DURUTTI COLUMN & YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA. Easily one of the best albums of the year. RECOMMENDED.

POLYGON WINDOW – Surfing on Sinewaves:Expanded Edition LP (Warp)

Fancy expanded edition of Richard D. James’ 1993 alias side project POLYGON WINDOW, crafting bleak industrial soundscapes that feel like a spiritual successor to Selected Ambient Works Vol. I with darker undertones.RECOMMENDED!

TOM SKINNER – Kaleidoscopic Visions LP (International Anthem)

SONS OF KEMET / THE SMILE drummer TOM SKINNER releases his second album under his own name, focusing in on textural, rhythmic and improvisational sketches that are less rooted in funk & hip-hop influenced backbeats than light, airy jazz ambience. Featuring help from ME’SHELL NDEGEOCELLO and RECOMMENDED!

ZOMBIES – Odyssey & Oracle (Mono Remaster) LP/CD (Q Prime)
One of the greatest albums ever made has been remastered in mono for the first time since its original release in 1968 & for the first time ever in mono in the U.S. Some records are worth hearing both in mono & stereo & this is certainly one of them. RECOMMENDED OF COURSE.

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

AIR – Premiers Symptomes LP/CD (Parlophone)

AIR – The Virgin Suicides: Redux LP/CD (Parlophone)

FRED ARMISEN – 100 Sound Effects LP (Drag City)

AUTECHRE – Quaristice LP (Warp)

AUTECHRE – Untitled LP (Warp)

SIR RICHARD BISHOP – Hillbilly Ragas LP/CD (Drag City)

BLACK EYED PEAS – Bridging the Gap: 25th Anniversary LP (Interscope)

JOHN COLTRANE – A Love Supreme (Mono) LP (Impulse)

THE CORDS – The Cords LP (Slumberland)

SONNY CRISS – Sonny’s Dream: Birth of a New Cool LP (Craft)

OLIVIA DEAN – Art of Loving LP/CD (Capitol) indie only color is sold out. We still have some free tote bags at Wicker Park while supplies last

DOJA CAT – Vie LP (RCA)

NICK DRAKE – The Making of Five Leaves Left LP/CD box sets (Island)

KENNY DREW TRIO – Kenny Drew Trio LP (Craft)

EMINEM – The Marshall Mathers LP: 25th Anniversary LP (Aftermath)

GEESE – Getting Killed LP/CD (Partisan)
GENESIS – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: Super Deluxe LP/CD box sets (Atlantic)

GUITARI BARO – Guitari Baro LP (Chrysalis)

KAROL G – Tropicoqueta LP (Interscope) two vinyl colors

HARUOMI HOSONO – Tropical Dandy LP (Stones Throw) 

MEAT PUPPETS – Too High to Die LP (London) limited color or black

MELVINS – Colossus of Destiny LP (Ipecac) 

MELVINS – Everybody Loves Sausages LP (Ipecac) 

MELVINS – Freak Puke LP (Ipecac) 

MGMT – Time to Pretend LP (Cantora)

GRACHAN MONCUR III – New Africa LP (BYG)

MONTY PYTHON’S Life of Brian (Soundtrack) LP (Integral)

MOTHER LOVE BONE – Apple LP (Mercury)

MOTHER LOVE BONE – Shine LP (Mercury)

PHOENIX – It’s Never Been Like That LP (Parlophone)

ROBERT PLANT – Saving Grace LP/CD (Nonesuch) two vinyl colors

POOL KIDS – Easier Said Than Done LP (Epitaph)

SAM PREKOP – Open Close LP (Thrill Jockey)

PURITY RING – Purity Ring (Fellowship)

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – Alive in the Catacombs LP (Matador)

RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE – Bones LP/CD (Atlantic) two vinyl colors

SIGUR ROS – Takk: 20th Anniversary 3LP (Krunk)

SPRINTS – All That Is Over LP/CD (Sub Pop)

SUNDAYS – Reading, Writing & Arithmetic LP (Geffen)

NOBUKAZU TAKEMARA – Knot of Meanings LP (Thrill Jockey)

JEFF TWEEDY – Twilight Override 3LP box set/2CD (dPM) two vinyl colors

WHITE REAPER – Only Slightly Empty LP (Blue Grape) two vinyl colors

ROB ZOMBIE – Hellbilly Deluxe LP (Geffen) glow in the dark vinyl

Reckless Records 8/22/25 NEW RELEASES

ARCADEA – Exodus of Gravity LP/CD (Relapse)

JON BATISTE – Big Money LP/CD (Verve)

BLACKBRAID – I CD/CS (Blackbraid)

BLACKBRAID – II CD/CS/LP (Blackbraid)

THE BLACK CROWES – Live LP (Friday)

KENNY BURRELL – Kenny Burrell LP (Craft)

CASE OATS – Last Missouri Exit LP/CD (Merge)

CHANCE THE RAPPER – Star Line CD (Chance the Rapper)

CIARA – Cici LP (Beauty Marks)

MILES DAVIS – Miles ‘55 3LP/2CD (Columbia)

DEFTONES – Private Music LP/CD/CS (Reprise) Fog color with alternate cover art

MAC DEMARCO – Guitar LP (Mac’s Record Label) indie color or black

DEPECHE MODE – Black Celebration LP/CD (Sony)

DEPECHE MODE – Construction Time Again LP/CD (Sony)

DEPECHE MODE – Music For the Masses LP/CD (Sony)

DEPECHE MODE – Speak & Spell LP/CD (Sony)

DUSTER – Contemporary Movement: Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition LP/CD (Numero) color or black

JOHN FOGERTY – Legacy: Credence Clearwater Revival LP (Concord)

FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY – Caustic Grip: 35th Anniversary LP (Waxtrax!) yellow or black

HOT MULLIGAN – Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still LP/CD (Wax Bodega)

JENNIE – Ruby Vinyl LP (Columbia)

BILLY JOEL – Greatest Hits I & II LP (Columbia) 

LAUFEY – A Matter of Time LP/CD/CS (AWAL) limited indie color or black

LSD & THE SEARCH FOR GOD – LSD & the Search For God 12″ (Don Giovanni) reissue on orange vinyl

MINUS THE BEAR – Menos El Oso: 20TH Anniversary LP (Suicide Squeeze) pink vinyl

NINE INCH NAILS – As Alive As You Need to Be 7” (Null)

NOURISHED BY TIME – The Passionate Ones LP/CD (XL)

OASIS – Complete Studio Album Collection CD boxset (Sony)

OBLIQUES – St. Petersburg 7” (Hozac)

PURELINK – Shrines LP (Peak Oil) back in print

RAIN PARADE – Crashing Dream Deluxe LP (Label 51)

SCRATCH ACID – Berserker LP (Touch & Go)

SCRATCH ACID – Just Keep Eating LP (Touch & Go)

THE SHADOW RING – Hold Onto I.D. (Blank Forms)

THE SHADOW RING – Wax-Work Echoes (Blank Forms)

SMASHING PUMPKINS – Machina LP (Virgin) 2025 reissue

SUPERCHUNK – Songs in the Key of Yikes LP/CD (Merge)

TERRY RILEY – The Columbia Recordings CD box set (Masterworks)

LUKE SCHNEIDER – For Dancing In Quiet Light LP (Leaving)

CHRIS STAPLETON – Traveller: 10th Anniversary LP (Mercury)

LEON THOMAS – Mutt Deluxe: Heel LP (Motown)

THREE DAYS GRACE – Alienation LP (RCA)

THE TIGHTS – Bad Hearts 7” (Hozac)

TURNOVER – Peripheral Vision: 10th Anniversary 3LP box set (Run For Cover)

TYLER THE CREATOR – Cherry Bomb LP (Odd Future) two different covers both on blue vinyl

EDO VAN BREEMAN – The Monkey (Soundtrack) LP (Mutant)

VARIOUS – K-Pop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack) (Republic)

WATER FROM YOUR EYES – It’s A Beautiful Place LP/CD (Matador)

FRANK WESS/JOHN COLTRANE – Wheelin’ & Dealin’ LP (Craft)

THE WHO – Live at the Oval LP/CD (UME)

WILCO – A.M. Rhino High Fidelity remaster LP (Rhino)

WINTER – Adult Romantix LP/CD (Winspear)

LAINEY WILSON – Whirlwind Deluxe LP/CD (BMG)

WOLF ALICE – The Clearing LP/CD (Sony) indie only or black

Reckless Records June 27th – July 11th New Releases

MATT JENCIK & MIDWIFE – Never Die LP/CD (Relapse) black vinyl is exclusive to Reckless & coke bottle clear

A collaboration between Chicagoan (and Reckless lifer!) Matt Jencik & Colorado’s Madeline Johnston aka MIDWIFE. Jencik has been making music since the early 90s in bands like HURL, DON CAB, IMPLODES, SLINT & PAPA M live bands. Midwife started in Denver about a decade ago & her brand of ghostly shoegaze/slow core is a store favorite. Low & slow, psychedelic shoegaze with hints of early 4AD, FLYING SAUCER ATTACK & the duo’sother projects. 

MOIN – Belly Up LP (AD93)

The London trio MOIN is one of our favorite contemporary groups here at Reckless. Drummer Valentina Magaletti is always at the center of the music & that’s no different here. This EP is less “rock” than “You Never End” with cyclical sax loops instead of prominent guitars & the staple MOIN spoken word vocals & samples. Fans of the group, THIS HEAT etc… must hear this. RECOMMENDED.

SMUT – Tomorrow Comes Crashing LP/CD/CS (Bayonet)

Chicago’s own SMUT are back with a new one & a new line-up for 2025. This one feels a little more aggressive with crunchier guitars & a more blown-out sound. Singer Tay Roebuck’s voice cuts through the fuzzy wall of guitars (one of which happens to be Reckless’ Andie Min!) & their catchy tunes remind us of THE SUNDAY, SMASHING PUMPKINS, PRIMITIVES & ELASTICA. RECOMMENDED. 

BEAU WANZER – Untitled: BW06 12” (Beau Wanzer)

CHICAGO artist Beau Wanzer is back with 6 gory, slammin’ techno and jack tracks. Noisy, bouncy and as always, killer! H I G H L Y   R E C O M M E N D E D

WET LEG – Moisturizer LP/CD/CS (Domino) We still have copies of the midnight sale exclusive cover variant at all stores

Moisturizer is the 2nd album from the UK band WET LEG & they keep their solid momentum going with another strong record. The songs will get stuck in your head right away & their mix of YEAH YEAH YEAHS art rock & uber confident glam is incredibly appealing.

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

P.P. ARNOLD – Immediate Sessions LP (Charly)

BABY HUEY – Baby Huey Story LP (Rhino)

BIOSPHERE – Way of Time LP/CD (AD93)

CLIPSE – Let God Sort Em Out LP/CD (Roc Nation) our vinyl is MIA & has yet to arrive should be here early next week. Sorry 🙁

WILLIE COLON & RUBEN BLADES – Metiendo Mano! LP (Craft)

CHRIS CONNELLY – White Phosphorus: Chris Connelly Plays Throbbing Gristle LP (Dirter)

FRANKIE COSMOS – Different Talking LP/CD (Sub Pop)

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – The Phoenician Scheme (Soundtrack) LP (Abcko)

DURRY – This Movie Sucks LP/CD (Thirty Tigers)

GIVEON – Beloved LP/CD (Epic)

GOGO PENGUIN – Necessary Fictions LP (XXIM)

HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR – Joker: Folie a Deux (Original Score) LP (Diggers Factory)

BUDDY GUY/JUNIOR WELLS/JUNIOR MANCE – Buddy & the Juniors LP (Verve)

GEORGE HARRISON – Let it Roll LP/CD (Dark Horse)

HOME IS WHERE – I Became Birds LP (Father/Daughter)

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS – Flowers LP/CD (Dead Oceans)

KAYTRANADA – Timeless LP/CD (RCA)

KINKS – Journey Part 3 LP (BMG)

LADYTRON – 604 LP (Nettwerk) reissue

LORDE – Virgin LP/CD (Republic)

MAC MILLER – I Love Life, Thank You LP (Rostrum) finally available on vinyl!

MUNA – Live at the Greek Theater LP  (Saddest Factory)

STEPHEN O’MALLEY – But Remember What You Have Had LP (Portraits GRM)

JIM O’ROURKE – Shutting Down Here LP (Portraits GRM)

BENOIT PIOULARD – Stanza IV LP (Disques d’Honor)

MATTHIA PUECH – Cabanes LP (Hands in the Dark)

CHAPPEL ROAN – The Giver 7” (Island) 5 different covers

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Tracks II: The Lost Album LP/CD/7CD BOX/9LP BOX (Legacy)

SUBLIME – Feel Like That 7” (Sublime)

SWELL SEASON – Forward LP/CD (Masterkey Sounds) 

311 – 311: 30th Anniversary LP (Volcano)

COLTER WALL – Imaginary Appalachia: 10TH Anniversary LP (RCA)

WEEKND (TESFAYE, ABEL & DANIEL LOPATIN) – Hurry Up Tomorrow (Original Score) LP/CD (XO)

WITCH – Sogolo LP (Partisan)

BILLY WOODS – Golliwog LP/CD (Backwoodz)

XZIBIT – Kingmaker LP (Diggers Factory)

Reckless Records June 13th & June 20th New Releases

JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA HONER – Different Rooms LP/CD (International Anthem) 

Following their 2024 album with the late, great ARIEL KALMA, this latest collaboration between synthesist JEREMIAH CHIU and violist / electronic composer MARTA SOFIA HONER returns to placid, meditative vignettes that develop motifs and phase in and out of structure. Featuring support from JEFF PARKER and CHIU’s SML bandmate JOSH JOHNSON, this will definitely appeal to fans of minimal jazz artists like NALA SINEPHRO and ALABASTER DePLUME as well as environmental composers like HIROSHI YOSHIMURA. On Int’l Anthem and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 

THE CURE – Mixes of a Lost World LP/CD (Capitol)

THE CURE are one of our all-time favorite bands here at Reckless & their 2024 comeback album “Songs of a Lost World” was one of the best records of 2024. The deep remix album features reimaginings by artists such as MOGWAI, FOURTET, PAUL OAKENFOLD, ORBITAL & much more. A really fun listen.

HOTLINE TNT – Raspberry Moon LP/CD (Third Man) limited color or black

We were really big fans of the debut album by HOTLINE TNT “Cartwheel” & this 2025 album is already bouncing around in our heads. Will Anderson is the primary songwriter & up until this album HOTLINE TNT has mostly been a solo project in the studio. “Raspberry Moon” is a full band record including live drums this time. Warm & crunchy guitars & straight-to-the-point shoegaze rockers that will appeal to fans of RIDE, DIIV, PALE SAINTS& DINOSAUR JR. 

BILLY NICHOLS – Would You Believe LP (Immediate)

Here it is kiddies, one of the rarest & most expensive LPs out there finally gets a worldwide release for the very first time in nearly 60 years. The album was recorded by the manager of the Rolling Stones Andrew Loog Oldham for his label Immediate & he brought in singer/songwriter Billy Nichols to help make a British response to “Pet Sounds.” The album featured SMALL FACES & Zep’s John Paul Jones & the baroque just drips off these psychedelic pop gems. About 100 copies were pressed but the label fell on hard times almost immediately (cough) after & was more or less cancelled. It’s become a cult classic over the years & any BEATLES obsessive, KINKS, LEFT BANKE, ZOMBIES fan needs to have this in their collection. ESSENTIAL late 60s’ British psych pop. 

COSEY FANNI TUTTI – 2T2 LP/CD (CTI)

Cosey Fanni Tutti has released a colossal amount of music but 2T2 is just her 3rd proper solo album. The songs are repetitive with almost wordless chanting at times over fuzzed-out synths & mid-tempo beats while “Never the Same” sounds like a classic CHRIS & COSEY track. Another great record by one of our favorite artists.

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS – All American Rejects LP (Interscope)

ANNAHSTASIA – Tether LP (Drink Sum Water)

BENET – Make Em Laugh LP (Bayonet)

B-52S – Warner Reprise Years 8CD box (Rhino)

BLACK SABBATH – Paranoid LP (Rhino) Rhino High Fidelity

BOMBA ESTEREO – Amancer: 10th Anniversary Ed. (Sony) with bonus track

BENSON BOONE – American Heart LP/CD (Warner)

BUDOS BAND – VII LP (Diamond West)

COIL – Time Machines LP (Dais) classic drone album back in print

ALICE COOPER – Love it to Death LP (Rhino)  Rhino High Fidelity

THE FACES – Ooh La La LP (Rhino) Rhino Hifi

FALLUJAH – Xenotaph LP (Nuclear Blast)

GHOSTFACE KILLAH – Supreme Clientele LP (Sony)

GILLA BAND – Early Years: 10th Anniversary LP (Rough Trade)

GNARLS BARKLEY – Odd Couple LP (30th Century)

GORILLAZ – Tomorrow Comes Today LP (Parlophone) 12″ reissue color vinyl

HAIM – I Quit LP/CD (Columbia) indie only blue vinyl or black

ISAAC HAYES – Hot Buttered Soul (box set) LP (Craft) Small Batch Series, one-step press

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Phantom Island LP (pDoom)

ROLAND KIRK – We Free Kings LP (Mercury) Verve Acoustic Sound Series

LA REVOLUCION DE EMILIANO ZAPATA – La Revolucion De Emiliano Zapata (Munster)

RAY LAMONTAGNE – Trouble: 20th Anniversary LP (Liula)

HECTOR LAVOE – Strikes Back LP (Craft)

MJ LENDERMAN & WEDNESDAY – Guttering LP/CS (Julia’s War) color or black

MAGGOT BRAIN #20 magazine (Third Man) Devo cover

MATMOS- Metallic Life Review LP (Thrill Jockey)

METALLICA – Load LP/CD/CS/5LP box set/3CD boxset (Blackened)

LUKAS NELSON – American Romance CD/LP (Sony Nashville)

NEW YORK DOLLS – New York Dolls (Original Master Recording) 2LP (Mobile Fidelity)

OASIS – Time Flies 1994-2009 4LP box set (Sony) 

ODESZA – Music To Refine To: A Remix Companion to Severance LP (Foreign Family Collective)

PIERCE THE VEIL – Jaws of Life: Deluxe Edition LP (Fearless)

FREDDIE ROACH – Down to Earth LP (Bute Note) Classic Vinyl Series

SHAKIRA – Oral Fixation Vol. 1 LP (Sony)

SHAKIRA – Fijacion Oral  LP (Sony)

SLEIGH BELLS – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy CD/LP (Mom+Pop)

SUN RA – On Jupiter LP (Strut)

SUZZALLO – Quiet Year CD/LP (Suzzallo)Tropical F*ck Storm – Fairyland Codex CD/LP (Fire Records)

TROPICAL FUCK STORM – Fairyland Codex CD/LP (Fire Records) w/ signed print while supplies last

VAN HALEN – Fair Warning (Lmt Ed UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM) 2LP box set (Mobile Fidelity) original master recording

VARIOUS ARTISTS – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Soundtrack) LP (Hollywood)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Complete Stax Singles Vol. 5 LP (Atlantic)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Complete Stax Singles Vol. 6 LP (Atlantic)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Soul Jazz Records Present Queen Dem LP (Soul Jazz)

VENETIAN SNARES – Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett LP (Planet Mu)

BABY FACE WILLETTE – Stop and Listen LP (Blue Note) Classic Vinyl Series

WITCH – Sogolo LP (Partisan)

NEIL YOUNG & THE CHROME HEARTS – Talkin’ to the Trees LP/CD (Reprise)

YUNGBLUD- Idols CD/LP (Capitol) indie only alternate cover with signed litho

Reckless Records May 23rd & May 30 New Releases

DIANOGAH – 1995-2008 5LP box set (Landland) RECKLESS EXCLUSIVE

Chicago’s beloved DIANOGAH have been active off & on since 1995 & over that time they released 4 albums & a few singles all of which has been very out of print for many years UNTIL NOW. Their double bass attack of Jay Ryan’s Rickenbacker treble & Jason Harvey’s Jazz low bass sounds along with Kip McCabe’s technical drumming combine for a style truly all their own. Years in the making this beautiful box set features remasters of all of their records as well as an LP of outtakes & live material exclusive to this box. There’s a also a booklet of photos, & two posters with art by Jay that’s just as recognizable as the band’s music. This is a must have for fans of 90s & 00s Chicago indie rock. ESSENTIAL & ONLY AVAILABLE AT RECKLESS IN THE U.S.!

ESG – Come Away With ESG LP (Fire)

It’s hard to really articulate how important and vital this record is, but here’s an attempt: These 11 songs represent the meeting point between punk, dance, funk, disco & hip-hop. Minimal bass hooks on the back beat are paired with whip-sharp drums, and the resulting sound is deceptive in its simplicity. This record is a hallmark of the post-Studio 54 era NY disco scene. Endlessly sample-able, this should be mandated in every home.

ESG – Step Off LP (Fire)

 2025 reissue of the great 2002 comeback record by the legendary ESG. The band continued their minimalist take on dance music that they started in the late 70’s in the South Bronx. There’s maybe a bit more of a minor key on some of these tunes but it’s DEFINITELY the ESG we know & love. RECOMMENDED.

ESG – Keep on Moving LP (Fire)

PLANNING FOR BURIAL – It’s Closeness, It’s Easy LP/CD (The Flenser)

Thom Wasluck is back with the first new PLANNING FOR BURIAL album in 8 years. Genres are mostly out the window here with elements of doom, black metal, shoegaze & slow core combined in really cool ways. Fans of stuff like JESU, PELICAN, NADJA etc… will dig this.

ALAN SPARHAWK WITH TRAMPLED BY TURTLES – With Trampled By Turtles LP/CD (Sub Pop)

Alan Sparhawk & fellow Duluth musicians TRAMPLED BY TURTLES have played together many times over the years so this combo is no surprise. Sparhawk’s last record was fully entrenched in electronica & this record couldn’t be more different despite sharing some of the same songs. The recording is direct & dry with Alan’s vocals as up front as they can be. Tracks like “Not Broken” were written with the late Mimi Parker & the late Mimi Parker & the reminder of LOW here is quite heavy. A nice mix of folk & 70s style orchestral pop ala John Cale & Lou Reed solo albums.RECOMMENDED.

STEREOLAB – Instant Holograms on Metal Film LP/CD (Duophonic) color or black vinyl

It’s safe to say that STEREOLAB is one of our favorite bands ever here at Reckless – spend a day at any of the locations and there’s at least a ~40% chance you hear “Dots & Loops”, “Transient Random-Noise Bursts..” or any of their other records over our speakers (don’t check my math on that) – so it’s understandable how excited we are about their first new music in fifteen years. If you’re familiar with the band, “Instant Holograms..” is not going to shock you. Gane, Sadier & company settle into their signature cerebral mixture that combines retro space-age lounge, pulsing motorik grooves, nostalgic French ye-ye and enveloping noise rock. There are some Chicago connections here too; the record is produced by Cooper Crain of BITCHIN’ BAJAS and features help from Crain’s bandmate Rob Frye as well as Int’l Anthem staple Ben Lamar Gay, but their contributions only reinforce how singularly STEREOLAB this record sounds. COULD NOT BE MORE RECOMMENDED!!!! 

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

AESOP ROCK – Black Hole Superette LP (Rhymesayers)

MATT BERNINGER – Get Sunk LP/CD (Concord) color or black vinyl

BLACKBRYRDS – City Life LP (Jazz Dispensary) top shelf series

BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History of the Human Race LP (Dark Descent) back in print on black or color

CANCER – To the Gory End LP (Peaceville)

MARIAH CAREY – Emancipation of Mimi LP (Def Jam) reissue

CIVIC – Chrome Dipped LP/CD (ATO)

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH – Hysterical LP (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

WILLIE COLON & HECTOR LAVOE – Guisando: Doing a Job LP (Craft)

RY COODER – Paris Texas (Soundtrack) LP (Rhino) red vinyl

CROWDED HOUSE – Crowded House LP (Capitol)

DENZEL CURRY – Imperial LP (Loma Vista)

MYLEY CYRUS – Something Beautiful LP/CD (Columbia)

DARKTHRONE – A Blaze In the Northern Sky 2CD (Peaceville) 30th anniversary remaster

DARKTHRONE – Transilvanian Hunger 2CD (Peaceville) 30th anniversary remaster

DARKTHRONE – Under a Funeral Moon 2CD (Peaceville) 30th anniversary remaster

BILL EVANS TRIO – Interplay LP (Craft)

BILL EVANS TRIO – Moonbeams LP (Craft)

FAUN FABLES – Counterclockwise LP (Drag City)

FOXWARREN – 2 LP/CD (Epitaph) color or black

BRYAN FERRY – As Time Goes By LP (BMG)

BRYAN FERRY – Olympia LP (BMG)

GARBAGE – Let All That We Imagine Be the Light LP/CD (BMG) two different vinyl colors

GRATEFUL DEAD – The Music Never Stopped (3CD)

CHRISTOPHER HOBBS & JOHN ADAMS – Ensemble Pieces LP (Superior Viaduct)

JOE JONAS – Music For People That Believe in Love LP/CD signed CD copies while supplies last!!

KENDRICK LAMAR – To Pimp a Butterfly: 10th Anniversary LP (Interscope) color or black

MAD SEASON – Above: 30TH Anniversary Edition LP (Columbia) color vinyl limited edition

MIDNIGHT – Steel Rust & Disgust LP/CD (Metal Blade)

MILITARIE GUN – Life Under the Sun LP (Loma Vista)

MINUS 5 – Oar On, Penelope LP (Yep Roc)

ALANIS MORISETTE – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Original Master Recording) LP (Mobile Fidelity)

MT JOY – Hope We Have Fun LP/CD (Futures Music) two different vinyl colors

NINA NASTASIA – Dogs LP (Quarterstick)

NINA NASTASIA – Run to Ruin LP (Quarterstick)

TOM PHILLIPS & GAVIN BRYARS – Irma LP (Superior Viaduct)

PUP – Dream Is Over LP (Side One Dummy)

RACHELS – Music For Egon Schiele LP (Quarterstick) silver vinyl

RAIN PARADE – Crashing Dream: Deluxe LP (Label 51)

MARC RIBOT – Map of a Blue City LP/CD (New West)

TY SEGALL – Possession LP/CD/CS (Drag City)

SIGUR ROS – Atta LP (BMG) clear vinyl

SUFJAN STEVENS – Carrie & Lowell: 10th Anniversary Edition 2LP/2CD (Ashmatic Kitty)

STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE – 1982 4 Piece Demo 7” (Night School)

SUPERGRASS – I Should Coco: 30th Anniversary LP (BMG) zoetrope picture disc

SWANS – Birthing LP/CD (Young God)

UNCOMFORTABLE POLICE – Michigan Style Hardcore LP (Teenbeat)

STEVE VON TILL – Alone in a World of Wounds LP (Neurot)

JOHN WHITE & GAVIN BRYARS – Machine Music LP (Superior Viaduct)

YANDEL – Sinfonico LP (Warner)

YEULE – Evangelic Girl is a Gun LP/CD (Ninja Tune) limited color or black

MATTHEW YOUNG – Undercurrents LP (Drag City)

ZIG ZAGS – Deadbeat at Dawn LP (Riding Easy)

If you’re not aware, we’ve been working day & night to get our new Loop location moved & we’ve been open now for about 2 weeks. It’s been a lot of work but we’re extremely excited about how everything has turned out so far. Please stop in and check out the new space at 33 S Wabash!!

ETHEL CAIN – Preacher’s Daughter LP (Daughters of Cain) WE FOUND A BOX OF THE VERY SOLD OUT INDIE EXCLUSIVE EDITION W/ POSTER. THESE WON’T LAST LONG!!

The much anticipated physical release of the great 2022 album “Preacher’s Daughter” by Ethel Cain is finally here! This record has become quite the cult classic thanks to the internet & it seems like the legend is only growing. Ethel Cain is the stage name of the musician & model Hayden Silas Anhedönia & her songs about her religious upbringing in the Florida Bible Belt have people all over the internet digging into the meaning of her lyrics. Imagine a mix of Lana Del Rey, Sharon Van Etten & ambient rock artists like MIDWIFE. An instant classic.

CAR SEAT HEADREST – Scholars LP/CD (Matador)

No stranger to ambition, Will Toledo gets grand with a double-LP rock opera, based around the rather esoteric narrative of an obscure Spanish poem from a priest, reframing the stories of spiritual crises to a college campus. Eschewing the lo-fi sound of albums like “Twin Fantasy” and “Teens of Style / Denial”, Toledo goes for a larger, more polished production that blends nimble guitars, bright synthesizers, and a shifting sense of dynamics. This ain’t your same old CSH, but a dense, ambitious project like this should reward even on repeated listens. 

JENNY HVAL – Iris Silver Mist LP/CD (4AD) indie only color or black

The ninth album for Norwegian art-pop purveyor JENNY HVAL is a tactile experience, incorporating everyday sound design into minimalis electro-pop tracks that are reminiscent of BJORK, FEVER RAY or even early LAURIE ANDERSON. This LP contains some of HVAL’s most accessible work to date. Excellent stuff! 

LOSCIL – Lake Fire LP/CD (Kranky)

Vancouver’s Scott Morgan returns with a new LOSCIL album for 2025. Inspired by the recent wildfires that have been ravaging the West Coast the past few years, “Lake Fire” is another masterpiece of modern drone/ ambient. Morgan’s music rarely uses beats but there are buried cyclical rhythms similar to the mysterious techno realms of GAS. Another great one from Loscil.

PINK FLOYD – At Pompeii MCMLXXII LP/CD/DVD/BLU-RAY (Pink Floyd)

Floyd fans have been daydreaming about a legit release of this soundtrack for over 50 years & it was worth the wait. This was remixed by the Floyd obsessive Steven Wilson & the result is just as magical as the remastered film. The band were at the top of their improvisational game here & knowing that they were on their way to making Dark Side…makes this even more mythic. STUNNING.

MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE – Tall Tales LP/DLX LP/CD (Warp)

Thom Yorke & the electronic musician Mark Pritchard have teamed up for this dark & interesting 2025 album “Tall Tales.” Unlike Yorke’s recent experimental rock project with Jonny Greenwood in THE SMILE, “Tall Tales” is a fully electronic project. This is a record that it seems like Yorke has been hinting at for years & he’s finally done it. There’s a menacing quality to the songs & the songs are really allowed to stretch out & breathe. Fans of Thom’s more electronic side will really dig this.

OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS

AMERICAN ANALOG SET – Fun of Watching Fireworks LP (Numero) color or black vinyl

ARCADE FIRE – Pink Elephant LP/CD (Columbia)

BEHEMOTH – Shit Ov God LP/CD (Nuclear Blast)

BLONDSHELL – If You Asked For a Picture LP/CD (Partisan) clear or red vinyl

KARA-LIS COVERDALE – From Where You Came LP (Smalltown Supersound)

APOLLO BROWN  & HASSAN MACKEY – Daily Bread (Mello Music Group)

COUNTING CROWS – Butter Miracle the Complete Sweets! (BMG)

DEATH – Symbolic LP (Roadrunner) finally reissued!!

DOCTOR BIONIC – The Island of Doctor Bionic LP (Chiefdom)

DOPE LEMON – Golden Wolf LP (BMG)

GLIXEN – She Only Said LP (Julia’s War)

HAMMOCK – From the Void LP (Hammock)

HEAD & THE HEART – Aperture LP/CD (Verve) indie color or black vinyl

HELL HOUND – Believe in Me 7” (Ancient Grease)

TIM HEIDECKER – Fear of Death LP (Bloodshot) reissue

LAIBACH – Alamut LP (Mute)

LIGHTS – A6 LP (Virgin)

MODEL/ACTRIZ – Dogsbody LP (True Panther)

GRACHAN MONCUR – Some Other Stuff LP (Blue Note) tone poet series

MUPPETS – The Green Album LP (Disney)

BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET – Hauslive 4 @ Constellation 5/3/24 CS (Hausu Mountain)

PINKPANTHERESS – Fancy That LP/CD (300 Entertainment)

PROPAGANDHI – At Peace LP/CD (Epitaph) color or black vinyl

PUP – Who Will Look After the Dogs? LP/CD (Rise)

MEI SEMONES – Animaru LP/CD (Bayonet)

SEXTILE – Yes Please LP/CD (Sacred Bones) color or black vinyl

SLEEP TOKEN – Even in Arcadia LP/CD (RCA)

TURNOVER – Peripheral Vision: 10th Anniversary LP (Run For Cover)

KALI UCHIS – Sincerely LP/CD (Capitol) brown or pink vinyl

VADER – Ultimate Incantation LP/CD (Earache)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: Modern Sound of Harare Townships ‘75-80 LP (Analog Africa)

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Eccentric Soul: The Linco Label LP (Numero) color or black vinyl

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Star Wars Lo-Fi (Disney)

BEN WEBSTER – Ben Webster & Associates LP (Verve) Acoustic Sound Series

ELI WINTER – Trick of the Light LP (Three Lobed) color or black vinyl

WONDER YEARS – Burst & Decay Vol. 3 (Hopeless)

WRECKS – Inside LP/CD (Republic)