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Reckless Records New Releases 2/12/2013

Greetings! Please reference the below (alphabetized) list of new releases that you might consider for purchase at one of our three stores. Some more exciting items include brand new releases from Pissed Jeans, Jacco Gardner, Zebra Katz, Frank N Dank, Gibby Haynes, Ulrich Schnauss and Chelsea Wolfe. BUT LET’S NOT FORGET THE REISSUES, G! Stereolab, the Ronettes, Pink & Brown, Texas is the Reason and more! Go nuts!

Abysme – Strange Rites (CD)
Blue Nile – Hats (LP – reissue)
Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops (LP – reissue)
C.C. Riders – S/T (LP featuring a young Jay Reatard)
Marianne Faithfull – Broken (2xCD – deluxe reissue)
Fear of Men – Early Fragments (LP)
Brian Ferry Orchestra – Jazz Age (CD/LP)
Foals – Holy Fire (CD – w/ free blank book while supplies last)
Frank N Dank – 48 Hours (LP)
Frank N Dank – 48 Hours INSTRUMENTALS (LP – beats by DILLA)
Frontier Ruckus – Eternity of Dimming (2xCD/2xLP)
Jacco Gardner – Cabinet of Curiosities (CD/LP)
Grateful Dead – Dead Ahead (DVD)
Grateful Dead – Ticket to New Year’s (DVD)
Green Day – Tre! (LP)
Gibby Haynes – Paul’s Not Home (7″ – new on Third Man)
Imagine Dragons – Night Vision (CD)
Albert King – The Big Blues (LP – reissue)
Freddie King – Goes Surfin’ (LP – reissue)
The Kustom Kings – Kustom City USA (LP – reissue)
Maston – Shadows (LP)
Mazes – Ores & Minerals (CD)
The Missing Links – S/T (LP w/ 7″ – reissue)
Pink & Brown – Every Shade of Pink & Brown (2xLP from John Dwyer’s pre THEE OH SEES group)
Pissed Jeans – Honeys (CD/LP – Loser Edition of the LP will come on orange vinyl & with a bonus 7″ of the band’s first demo. Limited!)
PVT – Homosapien (CD/LP – white vinyl)
Retribution Gospel Choir – 3 (LP)
Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous . . . (LP – reissue)
Ulrich Schnauss – A Long Way to Fall (CD)
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (2xLP – reissue)
Stereolab – Dots & Loops (2xLP – reissue
Texas is the Reason – Do You Know Who You Are? (CD/2xLP – reissue)
Tune-Yards as Yoko – We’re All Water b/w Warrior Woman (remix) (10″ – etched b-side & limited to 1,000)
Veronica Falls – Waiting for Something to Happen (CD vinyl coming soon)
Violator – Annihilation Process (LP)
Voivod – Target Earth (2xLP)
Chelsea Wolfe – Prayer for the Unborn (LP – on Latitudes, limited to 700.)
Zebra Katz & Njena Reddd Foxxx – Ima Read That Bitch (10″ – w/ etched B-side, on Mad Decent)
V/A – Cajun Honky Tonk: the Khoury Recordings Vol. 2 (CD)
V/A – Group Flex Vol. II (6×7″ flexi set from Castle Face Records featuring TY SEGALL, THEE OH SEES, SIC ALPS, RUNNING & more.)

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Reckless Records New Releases 2/5/2013

Ancient VVisdom – Deathlike (CD/LP)
Apache Dropout – Magnetic Heads (LP)
Beak> – Mono b/w Kenn (7″ – this is the UK band, not the Chicago band)
Bettie Seveert – Oh, Mayhem! (CD)
Bjork – Bastards (CD/2xLP – Biophilia remix album)
Bone Sickness – Demo (7″)
Bongripper – Live at Roadburn 2012 (2xCD)
The Bronx – IV (CD/LP – red vinyl)
Tony Carey – Explorer & Yellow Power (2xLP)
Cheatahs – Extended Plays (CD/LP)
Circuit Des Yeux – CDY3 (10″)
Como Mamas – Get an Understanding (CD/LP – new on Daptone)
Darkstar – News from Nowhere (CD/2xLP)
Deux – Decadence (LP reissue. One of our favorite Minimal Wave releases EVER back in print)
Dog Bite – Velvet Changes (CD)
Dur-Dur Band – Volume 5 (CD)
Edo G – Intelligence & Ignorance (CD)
Feeding People – Island Universe (CD/LP)
Fonda – Sell Your Memories (CD/LP)
Frank N Dank – 48 Hours (2xCD – long-shelved album produced by J DILLA, vinyl coming soon)
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse (CD/LP)
Golden Torso – S/T (7″)
Adam Green – Binki Shapirio (LP)
Grouper – The Man Who Died in His Boat (CD/LP)
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (CD/LP reissue on Kranky)
Hank IV – Depravity’s Rainbow (7″)
Happy Jawbone Family Band – Tastes the Broom (LP)
Haunted Hearts – Something that Feels Bad is Something that Feels Good (7″ Dee Dee of DUM DUM GIRLS & a CROCODILES member!)
Isaac Hayes – Black Moses (2xLP – 180g reissue with a reproduction of the huge fold-out sleeve)
Here We Go Magic – You Get More Done When You’re Happy (flexi 7″ – first of a monthly series for 2013)
Audrey Horne – Youngblood (CD)
J Dilla – The Lost Scrolls Vol. 1 (10″)
Jim James – Regions of Light & Sound of God (CD/LP, we were shorted on LPs so we’re running low but we’ll be replenished this week)
Kadaver/ Aqua Nebula Oscillator – Split (LP)
Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds – Conjure Man b/w Lose Your Mind (7″)
Albert King – Big Blues (LP reissue on Sundazed)
Freddy King – Goes Surfin’ (LP reissue)
Kustom Kings – Kustom City U.S.A. (LP reissue on Sundazed)
Medusa – First Step Beyond (LP – amazing psych-y, unreleased, ’70s stoner jams from – you guessed it – Numero Group)
MF GRIMM – Good Morning Vietnam (CD/LP – new EP from this hip-hop legend)
The Misfits – Dead Alive! (LP)
Helen Money – Arriving Angels (CD)
My Chemical Romance – Surrender the Night b/w Burn Bright (7″ – white vinyl)
Necrowretch – Putrid Death Sorcery (CD)
Matt Pond – The Lives Inside the Lines in your Hand (CD/LP)
Marshall McLuhan – The Medium is the Massage (LP – reissue)
Eugene Mirman – An Evening of Comedy in a Fake, Underground Laboratory (CD/DVD)
Missing Links – S/T (LP mono reissue of this Aussie freakbeat/garage classic via Sundazed with a 7″)
Night Beds – Country Sleep (CD/LP)
Orchestre Regional de Mauritanie LP
Pink Reason – Ache for You (7″)
Rio En Medio – Peace Sequence (CD)
Stark Reality – Acting, Thinking, Feeling: the Complete Works 1968 – 1978 (3xCD)
Rings of Saturn – Dingir (CD – second album from one of the most insane death metal bands you’ll ever hear. Completely bizarre.)
The Sleepers – Painless Nights (LP)
Slough Feg (Lord Weird) – 3xCD box set (3xCD (duh) with Twilight of the Idols, Traveller & Down Among the Deadmen)
Spectral Park – S/T (LP – w/ bonus 7″)
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down – We the Common (CD/LP)
Thee Open Sex – S/T (LP)
Toadies – Play Rock Music (LP)
Trees – Sickness In (CD)
UFO – Strangers in the Night (2xLP – reissue w/ two bonus tracks)
Umberto – Confrontations (CD/LP)
Unknown Moral Orchestra – II (CD/LP)
The United Sacred Harp Musical Association – The United Sacred Harp Convention (LP on Mississippi)
Vicious Circle (LP w/ DVD)
Young Fathers – Tape One (12″)
Zombified – Carnage Slaughter & Death (CD)
V/A – Assiyo Bellema (LP on Mississippi)
V/A – A Short Life Of Trouble (LP on Mississippi)

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Reckless Records New Releases 1/29/2013

Another big week of new releases! This time we have new stuff from Tomahawk, Oh No, Hatebreed, Indians, Amor de Dias, Rotten Sound, Wide Angles and Tall Firs (among others), blues reissues from Third Man Records, a bunch of other great reissues (Repulsion, Fleetwood Mac, Bauhaus, Brutal Truth, In Solitude, Septicflesh, etc), the repress of the Fuzz single (featuring Ty Segall), the new Deftones on vinyl and, of course, Bestial Warlust’s Satan’s Fist 12″. Come and get ’em!

Amor de Dias – House at Sea (CD/LP)
Antidote – No Peace in Our Time (LP)
Ariel Pink/Crooked Cowboy/Neil Schuh – Cloak & Dagger (7″)
Aura Noir – Dreams Like Deserts (LP imp, reissue)
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (LP – 4AD reissue)
Bauhaus – Mask (LP – 4AD reissue)
Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys – Ready for Boredom (LP)
Bent Sea – Noistalgia (cassette – featuring Devin Townsend & members of ABORTED)
Bestial Warlust – Satan’s Fist (12″)
Black Tusk/Dead Yet? – Split (7″ – green vinyl)
Blacklisted – So, You are a Magician? (7″)
Blacklisted – Live on BBC 1 (7″ – white vinyl)
Bleeding Rainbow – Yeah Right (CD/LP)
Blockheads – This World is Dead (LP)
Bolder Damn – Mourning (CD reissue)
Bosq of Whiskey Barons (feat. Kaleta) – More Heavy b/w Dem Know (12″ – green vinyl)
Brutal Truth/Rupture – Split (7″ – reissue)
Buke & Gase – General Dome (LP)
Eric Burdon – Til Your River Runs Dry (CD)
California X – S/T (LP)
Tom Carter/Pat Murano – Split (LP)
Cult of Luna – Vertikal (CD)
Dead Prez – Information Age (CD)
Deep Purple – Live in Paris 1975 (2xCD)
Deftones – Koi No Yokan (LP)
Dicks – Peace? (7″ – reissue)
The Dirtbombs – Consistency is the Enemy (LP)
Dodheimsgard – Supervillain Outcast (LP)
Ducktails – The Flower Lane (CD/LP)
Features – Floozie of the Neighborhood (7″ – reissue of this 1979 punk record)
Fire Death – S/T (LP)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumors (3xCD or 4xCD/DVD/LP mega-deluxe version)
Fuzz – This Time I got a Reason b/w Fuzz’s Fourth Dream (7″ – second pressing on black vinyl)
Give – Singles Going Confetti (LP)
Grass Widow/Shannon & the Clams – Split (7″)
Harouki Zombi – Objet Petit A (2×7″)
Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose (CD/LP)
Head & the Heart – Josh McBride b/w Honey Come Home (10″ – 78 RPM record!)
Hot Water Music – Live in Chicago (2xCD w/ DVD)
Hummingbird of Death – Skullvalanche (LP)
In Solitude – S/T (2xLP – reissue)
Indians – Somewhere Else (CD/LP)
Iron Reagan – Demo 2012 (LP – vinyl release for this 2012 demo from members of MUNICIPAL WASTE & DARKEST HOUR)
Katatonia – Brave Murder Day (LP reissue)
Keepsies – Dumb Fun (7″)
Kill Life w/ Dwid – Snake Kills Whole Family (7″)
Koldbrann – Vertigo (2xLP – limited to 250)
Les Conversions – S/T (LP)
Local Natives – Hummingbird (CD, deluxe CD or LP – w/ free poster while supplies last)
Lost Animal – Ex Tropical (CD/LP)
Lost Domain – Unnatural Act (LP)
Manpig – The Grand Negative (LP – 1992 recording finally released! Features members of INFEST)
Blind Willie McTell – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: October 18, 1927 – November 29, 1929 (LP – new on Third Man)
Mellow Harsher – Stinge (7″)
Mice Parade – Candela (CD/LP)
Mississippi Sheiks – Complete Recorded Works
1991 – High Tech High Life LP
1991 (MCMXCI) – s/t LP
Presented in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: February 17 to June 10, 1930 (LP – new on Third Man)
Needles – Desesperacion (7″)
Noisear – Turbulent Resurgence (LP – vinyl for this grindcore insanity)
The Nubs – I Don’t Need You (Cause I Got Me) (7″)
Oh No – Disrupted Ads (CD)
Om – Conference of the Birds (LP – picture disc reissue)
Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light (LP)
Part Time – Seashells (7″)
Charley Patton – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: June 14, 1929 to late November/early December 1929 (LP – new on Third Man)
Peaking Lights – Lucifer in Dub (12″)
Pseudogod – Deathwomb Catechesis (LP)
The Purist – Jealousy (feat DANNY BROWN) b/w Cold Heats (feat. BIG TWINS, HAVOC & SEAN PRICE)
Radar Brothers – Eight (LP w/ CD – limited to 1,000)
Raw Prawn – None Left (7″)
Mike Rep & the Quotas – Rocket to Nowhere (7″)
Repulsion – Horrified (LP – reissue)
Robbie M – Let’s Groove (LP)
Rotten Sound – Species of War (CDEP)
Ruby Suns – Christopher (CD/LP)
Sainte Anthony’s Fyre – S/T (CD/LP reissue)
Septicflesh – Mystic Places of Dawn (2xLP – reissue that includes the Temple of the Lost Race EP)
Sickness of Snakes – Nightmare Culture (CD/LP – reissue)
Strife – Witness a Rebirth (LP)
Systematik – S/T (12″)
Tall Firs – Out Of It & Into It (CD/LP)
Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob (CD/LP)
Terror – Hard Lessons b/w Only the Devil Knows (7″ – clear vinyl)
Dandy Teru – Fragile Things (12″ – blue vinyl)
Shugo Tokumaru – In Focus? (LP)
Tomahawk – Oddfellows (CD/LP ***vinyl is going fast, we’re working on getting more. call first)
Bobb Trimble – Take me Home Vienna (7″)
Wide Angles – Smile More (LP)
William Tyler – Oahspe (7″)
Wire Magazine (Oneohtrix Point Never cover)
Witch Cross – Fit for Fight (CD – reissue)
Wiz Khalifa – ONIFC (2xLP)
Xiu Xiu – Quagga (7″)
John Zorn – Filmworks XXV (CD)
V/A – Loosies (Cigarette-shaped USB stick with 22 new tracks from Fool’s Gold Records artists like DANNY BROWN, A-TRAK, KING L, CASEY VEGGIES & a million more people – seriously amazing)
V/A – Criminale Vol. 1 LP
V/A – Criminale Vol. 2 LP – great Italian film soundtrack comps.

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Reckless Records New Releases 1/22/2013

This is the first big new release week of many more to come in 2013! New albums from Toro Y Moi, Ex-Cops, Arbouretum, Mountains, Bad Religion, Voivod, and Ra Ra Riot. Vinyl for the new Broadcast and Neurosis albums. Reissues from Artifacts, Blue Nile, Lee Fields, Macabre, the Walkmen & a boatload more! Just take a look . . .

Adam Ant – Adam Ant is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter (CD)
Philip H. Anselmo/Warbeast – War of the Gargantuas (LP – split)
Arbouretum – Coming out of the Fog (CD/LP)
Arkhamin Kirjasto – Torches Ablaze (LP)
Artifacts – Between a Rock & Hard Place (CD – reissue of this untouchabble 1994 hip-hop album)
Ash Borer – S/T (CD – reissue of their limited, 2011 debut album)
At the Drive-In – Vaya (10″ – reissue of this classic EP)
Bad Religion – True North (CD/LP)
Battalion of Saints – Second Coming (LP – reissue, red vinyl)
Bell Gardens – Full Sundown Assembly (CD/LP)
Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal (LP – vinyl for their 2007 album)
Blue Nile – Hats (2xCD – reissue)
Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops (2xCD – reissue)
Bomb Banks – Not People (cassette – new on Love Lion)
Broadcast – Berberian Sound Studio (LP – now available after a delay)
Brokeback – Brokeback and the Black Rock (CD/LP)
Camper Van Beethoven – La Costa Perdida (CD)
Cave Dwellers – Run Around (2×7″ – new on Numero Group)
Chanes – Renegade Hands (cassette)
Charlambides – Rose/Thorn (LP)
Cheap Girls – Find me a Drink Home (LP – reissue)
Cheap Girls – My Roaring 20’s (LP – reissue)
Chuck & Mac – Powerful Love (7″ – reissue on Numero/Twinight)
Kelan Phil Cohran – Meditations (CD – 1996 recording finally gets a proper release)
Loren Connors – A Fire (LP – limited to 350)
Contrepoison – Until Next Morning (LP – limited to 400)
Kenny Cox – Clap Clap! The Joyful Noise (2xLP)
Chris Darrow – Artist Proof (CD/LP)
Emperor – Wrath of the Tyrant (LP – picture disc back in stock and limited)
Alameyahu Eshete – S/T (LP)
Ex-Cops – True Hallucinations (CD/LP – NOT the GWAR side project from the ’90s, that was X-Cops)
FaltyDL – Hardcourage (CD/2xLP)
Fashawn – Champagne & Styrofoam Cups (CD)
J Fernandez – No Luck b/w Fading Out (7″ – limited to 200)
Lee Fields – Let’s Talk it Over (CD/2xLP – reissue)
Follakzoid – Follakzoid II (CD/LP)
Foxygen – We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (CD/LP)
Lee Gamble – Dutch Tvashar Plumes (LP)
German Shepherds – Music for Sick Queers (LP w/ 7″ – reissue of this long-lost 1985 album)
Guided By Voices – Down by the Racetrack (CD/7″)
Petra Haden – Petra Goes to the Movies (CD/LP)
Helloween – Straight Out of Hell (CD)
Hilly Eye – Reasons to Live (CD/LP)
Holy Grail – Ride the Void (CD/LP)
Holydrug Couple – Noctuary (CD/LP)
Hot Water Music – Live in Chicago (3xLP – a few different colors of vinyl)
Jenn Grant – Beautiful Wild (CD/LP)
Hunx/Cassie Ramone – Split (7″)
In Solitude – S/T (CD – reissue)
Into Eternity – The Scattering of Ashes (LP – first time on vinyl)
JK Flesh/Prurient – Worship is the Cleansing of the Imagination (LP – this split 12″ is one of the final releases on Hydra Head Records)
Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law (CD)
Kesarbia Kerkar – S/T (LP)
Koldbrann – Vertigo (CD)
Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships (LP – clear vinyl)
Laurel Halo – Sunlight on the Faded (12″)
Lightning Swords of Death – Baphometic Chaosium (CD)
Lindstrom – Vos-Sako-Rv (12″ – TODD TERJE edits)
Low Culture – Screens (LP)
Macabre – Grim Reality: 25th Anniversary Edition (LP – 2013 reissue of this classic Chicago metal EP with original mixes and a remix of all seven tracks. Limited to 500 & numbered)
Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition – White Buffalo (CD)
Men – Electric b/w Water Babies (7″)
Mountains – Centralia (CD/2xLP)
Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay (2xLP)
Aaron Neville – My True Story (CD)
Night Marchers – Allez Allez (CD)
Nightlands – Oak Island (CD)
Nihilist – 1987-89 (LP – demos collection from this pre-ENTOMBED band)
Nosaj Thing – Home (CD/2xLP)
Obnox – Ragin’ in the Sun (7″ – limited to 500)
Pia Fraus – Silmi Island (LP w/ CD)
Moe Pope & Rain – Let the Right Ones In (CD/LP)
Jon Porras – Orilla Oscura (LP)
Pretty – Mustache in your Face (2×7″ – new on Numero Group)
Quantic & Alice Russell – Magdalena (12″ w/ CD)
Ra Ra Riot – Beta Love (CD)
Red Rippers – Over There…And Over Here (CD/LP)
Alasdair Roberts & Friends – A Wonder Working Stone (CD/LP)
Rodriguez – Searching for Sugarman (DVD/blu-ray)
Say Anything – All My Friends are Enemies: Early Rarities (3xCD)
Scorpion Violente – Unberschleiss (LP – red vinyl)
Ty Segall – Would You Be My Love? b/w For Those Who Weep (7″)
Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – Reverse Shark Attack (CD/LP)
Septicflesh – Mystic Places of Dawn (CD – reissue)
Six Organs of Admittance – Mariakapel (LP – import-only release from the Netherlands)
The Sleepers – Painless Nights (LP early San Fran post-punk feat. members of CRIME & TUXEDOMOON!)
Speck Mountain – Badwater (CD/LP)
Stooges – A Thousand Lights (LP)
Shugo Tokumaru – In Focus? (CD)
Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return (CD/2xLP)
Traditional Fools (Ty Segall alert!!) – S/T (CD/LP)
Treasure Fleet – Future Ways (LP)
Utarm – Apocryphal Stories (CD)
Voivod – Target Earth (CD)
The Walkmen – Bows & Arrows (LP – reissue)
Wicked Lester – You Are Doomed (2×7″ – not the pre-KISS band, new on Numero Group)
Renny Wilson – Sugarglider (LP)
Chris Wollard & the Ship Thieves – Canyons (CD/LP – clear vinyl)
Zip – Fabric 67 (CD)
V/A – Crying Princess: 78 RPM Records from Burma
V/A – Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol. 2 (LP)
V/A – Not So Quiet on the Western Front (LP – reissue of this classic punk compilation from 1982)
V/A – Pop Ambient 13 (CD/LP)
V/A – Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore & Malaysia 1964-1970 Vol. 1 (CD on Sublime Frequencies)
V/A – Rocket Infinity: Global Rise of Rocking Music 1942-1962 (10″)
V/A – Scattered Melodies: Korean Kayagum Sanjo from 78RPM Records
V/A – Stones Throw & Leaving Records Present: Dual Form (CD)
V/A – Studio One Ironsides (CD/2xLP)

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Reckless Records New Releases 1/15/2013

We are officially back in the saddle when it comes to new releases. Some important things to note: we only have DELUXE vinyl for the new Yo La Tengo for now. The regular LP was delayed. Same story with the vinyl for the new Pantha du Prince. Matador is having fits this week! Otherwise, a ton of great stuff this week including Agalloch vinyl reissues, Car Bomb vinyl, TWO Sean Lennon releases (one solo and one with Greg Saunier of Deerhoof as Mystical Weapons), Christopher Owens (ex-Girls), D’Angelo back in stock, A$AP Rocky and The National’s Virginia EP now on 12″! Come say hi at any one of our three stores!

Agalloch – Mantle (2xLP – reissue)
Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain (2xLP – reissue)
Alcest – BBC Live Session (LP, 3trk, one-sided live recordings with an etching on side B and a poster)
Alcest – Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde (LP – reissue w/ poster)
A$AP Rocky – Long Live A$AP (CD – vinyl next week, supposedly)
Body/Head (Kim Gordon & Bill Nace) – S/T (LP)
Car Bomb – WWWW (2xLP – vinyl for this amazing, late-2012 album)
Catholic Discipline – Underground Babylon (LP – reissue, limited to 1,000 on pink vinyl)
Crystal Ark – S/T (12″ – new on DFA)
D’Angelo – Voodoo (2xLP – reissue back in stock!)
Dead Ending – DE II (12″)
Diminished Men – Capnomancy (LP)
Don Caballero – Gang Banged With a Headache & Live (LP)
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (2xLP – mobile fidelity reissue)
Nico Gomez & his Afro Percussion Inc. – Ritual (LP)
Hilly Eye – Reason to Live (CD/LP)
Hot Water Music – Live in Chicago (3lp, on red, yellow or blue vinyl)
In Aeternam Vale – La Piscine (12″)
KG Band – Disco Train (LP – w/ 7″)
Sean Lennon – Alter Egos (CD/LP – soundtrack)
Love Live Life + One – Love Will Make a Better You (LP – reissue)
Mystic Siva – S/T (LP – reissue)
Mystical Weapons – S/T (CD/LP – Sean Lennon & Greg Saunier from DEERHOOF)
The National – Virginia EP (LP – these are the companion tracks that were released with the A Skin, A Night DVD but now on vinyl)
Os Brazoes – S/T (LP reissue)
Christopher Owens – Lysandre (CD/LP – new album from the former GIRLS member)
Pantha Du Prince & the Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light (CD ONLY – LP is delayed for two weeks or so)
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold (CD/LP)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce – Six String Sermon (LP – limited edition)
Popul Vuh – Affenstunde (LP – reissue)
Psychic TV – Dreams Less Sweet (LP)
Scientists – Swampland (2xLP – limited to 1,000)
Silencer – Death Pierce Me (LP reissue of this crazy, black metal classic!)
Solar Year – Night & Day b/w Magic Idea (7″)
Three Legged Race – Persuasive Barrier (LP)
Torch – Street Suite (LP – reissue)
Marcus Valle – S/T (CD/LP reissue)
Marcus Valle – Garra (CD/LP reissue)
Kurt Vile – Hunchback (LP – reissue)
Andre Williams – Bacon Fat: the Fortune Singles 1956=57 (LP)
Robert Williams & Ron Hardy – Robert Williams & Ron Hardy Present Muzic Box (12″)
The xx – Angels b/w Chained (7″)
Yo La Tengo – Fade (CD & DELUXE LP ONLY – the regular LP was delayed, but the deluxe version is limited, comes packaged with a bonus 7″ and will sell out)
V/A – Molam: Thai Country Groove from Isan Vol. 1 (2xLP)

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Reckless Records New Releases 1/8/2013

Hey folks! The holidays have been insanely busy for us, but we’ve still been accumulating new releases and there’s some great new stuff coming out this week. See below for new stuff we’ve gotten in over the past two weeks or so, and be to check reckless.com for availability!

Philip Anselmo/Warbeast – War of the Gargantuas (split CD – LP supposedly out 1/22)
Archie Whitewater – S/T (LP – reissue)
Big Boi – Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors (LP)
Blackhouse (Georgia Anne Muldrow & DJ Romes) – S/T (LP – finally available)
Boris/Joe Volk – Split (LP)
Broadcast – Berberian Sound Studio (CD – LP delayed until next week)
Cody Chesnutt – Landing on a Hundred (2xLP)
Code Orange Kids – Love is Love/Return to Dust (LP)
Crystal Castles – III (LP – vinyl finally available!)
Destroyer 666 – Cold Steel . . . for an Iron Age (LP reissue – limited to 500)
Destroyer 666 – Phoenix Rising (LP reissue – limited to 500)
DJ Nu-Mark – Broken Sunlight (2xCD w/ DVD or 2xLP – collection of the individual 10-inches he released in 2012)
Ethernet – Opus 2 (CD)
Fuzz – This Time I got a Reason b/w Fuzz’s Fourth Dream (7″ call first, these are almost gone. A repress is supposedly already in the works)
Heathered Pearls – Loyal (LP)
Heaven’s Cry – Food for Thought Substitue (CD reissue)
Heaven’s Cry – Primal Power Addiction (CD reissue)
Herbaliser – There Were Seven (2xLP)
I Hate Our Freedom – This Year’s Best Disaster (LP)
Incite – All Out War (CD)
JR & PH7 – Good Life (CD/2xLP)
Katalepsy – Autopsychosis (CD – new album from this brutal, brutal Russian death metal band)
Liminanas – La Fille de la Linge 15 b/w Mobylette (7″)
McElroy Bros. – Can’t You See Me Smilin’ (LP reissue)
Outer Minds – Behind the Mirror
Oyarsa – S/T (cassette – limited to 100)
Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical (CD reissue)
Pagan Altar – Lords of Hypocrisy (CD reissue)
Pagan Altar – Judgement of the Dead (CD reissue)
Pere Ubu – Lady from Shanghai (CD)
Michael Perilstein – The Deadly Spawn (LP – soundtrack)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce – Six String Sermon (LP)
Roc Marciano – Reloaded (2xLP)
Santah – You’re still a Lover (LP)
Scientists – Swampland (LP)
Solange – True (CD/LP)
Spine – Subhuman (7″ – new record from members of SORRY EXCUSE & WEEKEND NACHOS. Heavy stuff!)
Stars of the Lid – Ballasted Orchestra (LP reissue)
Tilly & the Wall – Love Riot (Remixes) (12″)
Torche – Harmonslaught (7″ – two new tracks, limited to 1,000)
Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff (LP)
Van Der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts (LP)
Watain – Sworn to the Dark (CD reissue)
Bill Withers – Just as I Am (LP – reissue on 4 Men With Beards, 180g)
Bill Withers – Still Bill (LP – reissue on 4 Men With Beards, 180g)
Wooden Wand – Blood Oaths of the new Blues (CD/LP)
Yellow Eyes/Monument – Split (cassette – limited to 100)
V/A – Rojac Story: Best of Rojac & Tay-Ster (2xCD)
V/A – Sadar Bahar Presents Soul in the Hole (CD/2xLP)
V/A – Velvet Underground & Nico: Castleface & friends (LP)

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Vinyl Sale!!

Take a look at these lowered prices in case there’s anything you’ve been holding out on…

Animal Collective – Centipede Hz $18.99
Band of Horses – Mirage Rock $17.99
Burzum – Umskiptar $17.99
Bob Dylan – 4X7″ boxset $29.99
Fleetwood Mac – S/T 2XLP 45RPM $29.99
Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes deluxe edition limited to 1000 $29.99
Matthew Friedberger – Solos 6xLP boxset $39.99
Neu Boxset 5xlps with book & stencil $159.99
Panda Bear – Tomboy 4XLP boxset $22.99
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light $16.99
Thin Lizzy – S/T LP Reissue w/ poster on Light in the Attic $19.99
Unrest – Perfect Teeth 7″boxset $34.99
V/A – East of Underground 3xlp $29.99

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Reckless Records 12/26/12 New Releases

We hope you’re having an excellent holiday season, we certainly did. There aren’t too many new releases this week but there’s definitely enough interesting stuff to mention.

New Releases
Bare Wires – Idle Dreams (LP)
Black Sabbath – Vinyl Collection (9xlps, 7″, book & downloads)
Body/ Gate/ Head – Glare Luring Yo (LP featuring Kim Gordon, Michael Morley (GATE) & Bill Nance)
Brainbox – Dark Rose: Their 45s (LP reissue)
Coloured Balls – Ball Power (LP reissue)
Tod Dockstader – Electronic Vol. 1 (LP)
Luc Ferrari – Presque Rien (LP)
Jesu – Christmas (CD single)
Kluster – Eruption (LP reissue)
Major Stars – Decibels of Gratitude (LP)
Ivo Malc – Triola Ou Symphonie Pour Moi-Meme (LP)
Mutiilation – Vampires of Black Imperial Blood (LP reissue)
Mutiilation – Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul (LP reissue)
Mutiilation – Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn) (LP reissue)
Ono – Machines That Kill People (LP reissue)
Outsiders – S/T (LP reissue)
Wall of Death – Main Obsession (CD on Born Bad)

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Reckless Records New Releases 12/18/2012

Alien Ballroom – Zero Pac A.D. (LP)
Altres – Archives (LP)
American Heritage – Sedentary (LP – clear vinyl)
Arthur Magazine (first new issue on a few years!!)
Beaters – Fishage (LP)
Andrew Bird – Hands of Glory (LP)
Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson – Dice Game (2xLP – vinyl for one of the year’s best hip-hop albums)
Burial – One/Two (CDEP/12″)
Burning Airlines – Mission: Control! (LP reissue)
Burning Airlines – Identikit (LP reissue)
Leroy Carr & Scapper Blackwell – Naptown Blues 1929-34 (LP)
Chief Keef – Finally Rich (regular or deluxe CD w/ bonus tracks)
Eric Clapton – Slowhand (CD or 2xCD reissues)
Destination Lonely – Kiss or Kicks (LP)
Dr. John – Splinter Trip Revisited (2xLP w/ CD)
DVA – Fly Juice (2×12″)
Ex-Cult – S/T (LP)
FaltyDL – Straight & Arrow (7″)
Father Finger – S/T (cassette)
FM3 – Buddha Machine 4 (4 versions in neon colors. best holiday gift ever??)
Girls Names – New Life (12″ – white vinyl)
Goblin – Tenebre (LP soundtrack for this classic early 80’s Argento flick)
Hecker – Chimerization (LP – Farsi version)
Hecker – Chimerization (LP – German version)
Hecker – Chimerization (LP – English version)
Mississippi John Hurt – 1928 Sessions (LP)
Fletcher C. Johnson – Salutations (LP)
Magic Touch & Sapphire – Just Wanna Feel (12″)
Malevolent Creation – Demo 1987 (LP)
Mephiskapheles – God Bless Satan (LP w/ 7″ – red vinyl)
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (LP – 180g reissue)
Natural Child – Hard in Heaven (LP)
North Highlands – Wild One (LP)
Nurse With Wound – Sucked Orange/Scrag (2xCD)
The Obsessed – Iron & Stone (7″ – reissue)
Old Firm Casuals – Born Criminal (7″)
The Pogues – In Paris (2xCD)
Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Christmas Album (LP – reissue)
Prince Rupert’s Drops – Run Slow (LP or cassette)
Product, the – Alive Again (LP)
Pupils – S/T (LP – French punk band with a STOOGES vibe)
Quintron & Miss Pussycat/Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys – Split (7″)
Rush – 2112 (CD/DVD or CD/Blu-Ray reissues)
Will Sessions – Xmas Break b/w Have a Funky Holiday (7″)
7even Thirty – Heaven’s Computer (2xLP)
Smegma – Ever & Anon (LP – limited to 300)
Smersh – Cassette Pets: Smersh 1981-1994 (2xLP)
Peter Stampfel – Live (LP)
T.I. – Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head (CD)
Vertical 67 – Soulmates (cassette)
VSS – Nervous Circuits (2xLP – reissue)
Casey Bill Weldon & Kokomo Arnold – Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetter of the 1930’s (LP)
Ray Woolf & the Avengers – Little Things that Happen (7″)
Frank Zappa – Yellow Shark (CD – reissue)
Frank Zappa – Lather (3xCD – reissue)
Frank Zappa – Ahead of Their Time (CD – reissue)
Frank Zappa – Lost Episodes (CD – reissue)
Frank Zappa – Finer Moments (2xCD – reissue)
V/A – Django Unchained (CD – soundtrack)

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Reckless Records 2012 staff lists

Another amazing music year at Reckless…

Angela Ziles
Best 2012 Releases (in no particular order)
Ty Segall – Twins, Hair w/ White Fence and Slaughterhouse w/ Ty Segall Band (Drag City)
Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes (Warp)
Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble s/t (Honest Jon’s)
Daughn Gibson – All Hell (White Denim)
Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everybody Love Free Music But Nobody Loves Free People (Palilalia)
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet – Stellar Pulsations (Delmark)
Joshua Abrams – Represencing (Eremite Records)
Peter Brotzmann & Jason Adasiewicz – Going All Fancy (Bro Records)
Wild Nothing– Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
Liars – WIXIW (Mute)
OFF! s/t (Vice)
Goat – World Music (Rocket Recordings)
Ceremony – Zoo (Matador Records)
Tropic of Cancer – Permissions of Love (Mannequin)
Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi – Imikuzushi (Black Truffle)
The Men – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Blues Control – Valley Tangents (Drag City)
Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute)
Sonic Youth – Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin’)
Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears (Light In The Attic)
Donnie & Joe Emerson – Dreamin Wild (Light In The Attic)
V/A: Eccentric Soul: A RBG Production (Numero)
V/A: Buttons: From Champaign To Chicago (Numero)

Colin Blanton
in no particular order:
1. guardian alien-” see the world given to a one love entity”
2. goat- “world music”
3. loscil- “sketches of new brighton”
4. rambletamble- “twang of the void”
5. arica- “music in the nine rings”
6. Laurel Halo- “quarantine”
7. hecker/lopatin-“instrumental tourist”
8. difference clouds- “shiro”
9. sun araw/congos-“icon give thank”
10. suum cuique-“ascetic ideals”
11. Camera-“radiate!” DUUUUHHHH sooo good.

Anthony Illarde
Captain Beefheart – Abba Zaba 45 (Sundazed)
Alexandre Desplat – Moonrise Kingdom (Soundtrack) (ABKCO)
Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)
Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox (Atlantic)
Paul McCartney – Ram (Mono LP) (Apple)
Menahan Street Band – The Crossing (Dunham)
Public Nuisance – Gotta Survive (Reissue) (Third Man)
Rockin’ Horse – Yes It Is (Reissue) (Sing Sing)
Ty Segall – Twins (Drag City)
Frank Zappa – Why Don’cha Do Me Right 45 (UME)
Various – Man Chest Hair (Finders Keepers)
Various – TV Sound And Image: British Television, Film & Library Composers 1956-80 (Soul Jazz)
Wes Anderson – Moonrise Kingdom (Focus Features)
Dale Sherman – Kiss FAQ (Backbeat Book)

Michael Gillilan
Records (no particular order)
Liars – WIXIW (Warp)
Chris Cohen – Overgrown Path (Captured Tracks)
Actress – R.I.P. (Honest Jon’s)
Angel Olsen – Half Way Home (Bathetic)
Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II (In the Red)
Joshua Abrams – Represencing (Eremite)
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam)
Ricardo Villalobos – Dependent and Happy (Perlon)

Reissues/ Compilations:
Porter Ricks – Biokinetics (Type)
George Harrison – Early Takes Vol. 1 (Universal)
Sensations Fix- Music is Painting in the Air (Rvng Intl.)
Francis Bebey – African Electronic Music 1975-1982 (Born Bad)

Shows:
Liars at Metro
Mac DeMarco at the Empty Bottle
Ono at the Burlington
Angel Olsen at Township (Panchos-Township(Formerly Panchos))
Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society at the Hideout

Courtland Green
2012 BEST OF IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
1. VA 122 BPM
2. FRANCIS BEBEY AFRICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1975-1982
3. QUAKERS S.T.
4. VA PERSONAL SPACE
5. JOSHUA ABRAMS REPRESENCING
6. BOBBY WOMACK BRAVEST MAN IN THE UNIVERSE
7. SONIC YOUTH LIVE AT SMARTBAR
8. BILL ORCUTT WHY DOES EVERYBODY LOVE FREE MUSIC BUT NOBODY LOVES FREE PEOPLE
9. KIKI GYAN 24 HOURS IN A DISCO
10. TINDERSTICKS THE SOMETHING RAIN
11. VA ORIGINAL SOUND OF CUMBIA
12. CAN LOST TAPES
13. ANNETTE PEACOCK I’M THE ONE
14. VA VOGUEING VOL1 & 2
15. NENEH CHERRY AND THE THING
16. KIKI GYAN 24 HOURS AT THE DISCO
17. LONNIE HOLLEY JUST BEFORE MUSIC

Mark Lux
in no particular order
bare mutants: without you 7″
fake limbs: man feelings
djin aquarian pcws: destroy the world
howlin rain: russian wilds
bobby womack: bravest man in the universe
blues control: valley tangents
chris lee: bury the king jeremy spencer: bend in the road
goat: world music
jessica bailiff: at the down turned jagged….
loscil: sketches from new brighton
rotomagus: sky turns red (reissue)
pin group: ambivalence (reissue)

Charles Taylor
BEST JAZZ 2012
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
Peter Brotzmann: Yatagarou
Eddie Prevost: Impossibility In Its Purest Forms
Tony Bevan/Joe Morris: Tony-Joe Bucklash
Living By Lanterns: New Myth/Old Science
Mary Halvorson: Bending Bridges
Ab Baars: 20 Years
Jason Robinson: Tiresian Symmetry
Ken Vandermark: DKV Trio 1994 – 2011

Emily Elhaj
The Best Albums of 2012

Furze – Psych Minus Space Control (Fysisk Format)
Windy and Carl – We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute/Spoon)
Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland (Hype Williams) – Black Is Beautiful (EBONY) (Hyperdub)
Bonobo – Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Alleujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
Mac Demarco – Rock and Roll Night Club / 2 (Captured Tracks)
The Men – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (DefJam)
Dunes – Noctiluca (Post Present Medium)
Swans – The Seer (Young God)
Chris Cohen – Overgrown Path (Captured Tracks)
Mirrorring – Foreign Body (Kranky)
Raajmahal – Celandine (Digitalis) cassette
Runawei – Abduction (Digitalis) cassette
Tim Hecker / Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist (Software)
VCMG – Ssss (Mute)
Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)
The Dreebs – Bait An Orchard (Rotted Tooth)
Musette – Drape Me In Velvet (Hapna)
Maggi Payne – Ahh-Ahh: Music For Ed Tannenbaum’s Technological Feets 1984-1987 (Root Strata)
Orcas – Orcas (Morr)
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
Field – Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
Angel Olsen – Half Way Home (Bathetic)
Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream (RCA)
Young Prisms – In Between (Kanine)
Francis Bebey – African Electronic Music 1975-1982 (Born Bad)
V/A – Remolino de Oro (Domino Sound)
V/A – Amhara Wedding Songs (Domino Sound)
Broken Water – Tempest (Hardly Art)
Kelan Philip Cohran and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – s/t (Honest Jon’s)
Torben – Demo
Dinosaur Jr. – I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)
Holy Other – Held (Tri Angle)
Billy Gibbons/ Matt Sweeney/ Bonnie Prince Billy – Oh Well 7
Matthew E. White – Big Inner (Hometapes)
Bomb Banks – Not People (Love Lion)
Nu Sensae – Sundowning (Suicide Squeeze)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – s/t (Fat Possum)
Oozing Wound – Vape and Pillage cassette
Merchandise – Children of Desire (Katorga Works)
Lord Mantis – Pervertor (Candlelight)
Anatomy of Habit – II (AOH)

Reissues
Durutti Column – Short Stories For Pauline (LTM)
Should – Folding Sieve (Captured Tracks)
Sensations’Fix – Music Is Painting In the Air (ReRvng)
Michael Chapman – Rainmaker (Light in the Attic)
Doug Jerebine – Is Jesse Parker (Drag City)
Rob Thomsett – Yaraandoo (Thee Roundtable)
Michael Chapman – Rainmaker (Light in the Attic
Lee Hazelwood – LHI Years (Light in the Attic)
Wicked Lady – The Axeman Cometh (Guerssen)
Sleep – Dopesmoker (Southern Lord)

Shows
Fielded/ Oozing Wound/ Mayor Daley – Crown Liquors
Yob – Empty Bottle
Bitchin Bajas – Music Box Theatre
Steve’s Shredfest: Zath/ Peace Warriors/ Mayor Daley – Crown Liquors
Talk Normal – Lincoln Hall
The Dream – House of Blues
Sister Spit – Wicker Park Art Center
Disappears/ Lotus Plaza/ Implodes – Lincoln Hall
Thou – Siberia, New Orleans
Lucky Lou – Noizfest, New Orleans
Hoax – Mousetrap
Madalyn Merkey – the Charleston
Codeine – Lincoln Hall
Dinosaur Jr. – Subterranean
Winged Victory – Pritzker Pavilion
Captcha Benefit – Burlington
Skoal Kodiak – Nick and Eddies, Minneapolis
Guerilla Toss – Butcher Shoppe, Boston
Nu Sensae – Empty Bottle
Animal City – Cafe Mustache
Angel Olsen – Schubas
Storm Thorgerson Exhibit – Public Works
Big Business – Bottom Lounge
Dirty Three – Lincoln Hall
Lord Mantis – Ultra Lounge
Cat Power – The Vic
ONO – Quenchers
Torben – Alderaan
The Dreebs/ Toupee/ Unmanned Ship – Situations

Labels
Domino Sound
Light in the Attic
Guerssen
Rotted Tooth
Honest Jon’s
Root Strata
Kranky
Sahel Sounds

Jim Magas
In no particular order
Various Artists – Man Chest Hair
Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everybody Love Free Music But Nobody Loves Free People
Drexciya – Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller Vol. 3
N. Racker – Flock Toxicant
Aaron Dilloway – Modern Jester
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
Nate Young – Regression Vol. 3
Moon Pool & Dead Band – Human Fly
Demdike Stare – Elemental 1-4
Arica – Music In the Nine Rings
Vatican Shadow – Ornamented Walls
Andrew WK – I Get Wet reissue
Harry Pussy – One Plus One
Kevin Drumm – Relief
Raime – Quarter Turn Over a Living Line
Haxan Cloak – s/t
John Carpenter reissues on Death Waltz (esp. Escape From NY and Halloween III)
Theo Parrish – Handmade
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Wicked Lady reissues
Von Lmo – Tranceformer LP
Various Artists – El Topo soundtrack
Editions Mego’s Recollection GRM series
Blues Control – Valley Tangents
Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar

Matt Jencik
Abysme “Strange Rites”
Aphex Twin “Selected Ambient Works Vol. II LP reissue
Arica “Music in the Nine Rings” LP
Atomic Forest “Obsession” reissue
Jessica Bailiff “At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky”
Ken Camden/ Matthew Hale Clark split 10″
Can “Lost Tapes” boxset
Michael Chapman “Rainmaker” reissue
Death and Vanilla “s/t”
Devil “Time To Repent” (2011 release)
Disappears “Pre Language”
Dreamscape “La-Di-Da Recordings”
Drudkh “Eternal Turn of the Wheel”
Enslaved “Riitiir”
Fake Limbs “Man Feelings”
Franco Falsini “Cold Nose” LP reissue
Furze “Psych Minus Space Control”
Goat “World Music”
Great Unwashed “Clean Out of Our Minds” LP reissue
Harmonia “Live 1974” LP
Lee Hazlewood all reissues
Karl Hendricks Trio “The Adult Section”
Horseback “Impale Golden Horn” LP
Karen Novotny X “Nothing Here Now but These Recordings: 78-79” LP
Katatonia “For Funerals to Come” reissue
David Kilgour “Here Come the Cars” LP reissue
Liars “Wixiw”
Mayor Daley “Sand Bath”
Mirrorring “Foreign Body”
Odz Manouk “s/t”
Pin Group “Ambivalence”
Public Nuisance “Gotta Survive” LP reissue
Rolling Stones “Charlie is My Darling” documentary
Runawei “Abduction” cassette
Sensations’ Fix “Music is Painting in the Air 1974-77”
Spiritualized “Sweet Heart Sweet Light”
Tropic of Cancer “Permissions of Love” 12″
Van Halen “A Different Kind of Truth”
Wicked Lady LP reissues
Gareth Williams & Mary Currie “Flaming Tunes” LP reissue
Winterfylleth “Threnody of Triumph”
Neil Young and Crazy Horse “Psychedelic Pill”

shows
Altar of Plagues
Bitch Magnet
Codeine
Dinosaur Jr.
Iggy and the Stooges
Louis C.K.
Nekromantheon
Spiritualized
Van Halen
Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Chris Connelly
SCOTT WALKER – BISH BOSCH
MYRNINEREST- JHONN UTTERED BABYLON
COMUS – OUT OF THE COMA
XTG – DESERTSHORE/THE FINAL REPORT
SWANS – SEER
ANNETTE PEACOCK- I’M THE ONE
CAN – THE LOST TAPES
DURUTTI COLUMN- SHORT STORIES FOR PAULING
BAT FOR LASHES – HAUNTED MAN
COLOURBOX – COLOURBOX

Dan Maloney
Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
Father John Misty- Fear Fun
Bobby Womack- Bravest Man in The Universe
Goat- World Music
Melodies Echo Chamber- S/T
Matthew E White- Big Inner
Death & Vanilla- S/T
Bill Fay-  Life is People
Mark Lanegan- Blues Funeral
Tame Impala- Lonerism
Quakers- Quakers
Nas- Life is Good
Thee Oh Sees- Putrifers II
Tight Phantomz- Silk Prison
Prince Rupert’s Drops- Run Slow
Crybaby- Crybaby
Reissues:
Public Nuisance- Gotta Survive
Terry Manning- Home Sweet Home
Lee Hazlewood- (Light in the Attic Reissue Campaign)
Buttons- Start Kit (Numero Group Comps)
Rockin’ Horse- Yes it Is
V/A Country Funk 1969-1975
Agitation Free -2nd/ Migration
V/A Personal Space
Francis Bebey- African Electronic Music 1975-1982
William Basinksi- Disintegration Loops Box Set
V/A Vogueing Volume One & Volume Two
Annette Peacock- I’m the One
Archers Of Loaf Merge Reissue Campaign
Thin Lizzy- Thin Lizzy
Can- Lost Tapes
V/A 122 BPM
Sensations Fix- Music is Painting in the Air
Ride- Going Blank Again/ Nowhere
Pale Saints- Comforts of Madness
Paul & Linda McCartney- Ram (Stereo/Mono)
Nick Nicely- Elegant Daze (Late 2011, but did not discover til 2012)

Casey Sabatka
1. Young Magic “Melt”
2. Goat “World Music”
3. Ty Segall “Twins”
4. Pterodactyl “Spills Out”
5. S. Carey “Hoyas EP”
6. Thee Oh Sees “Putrifiers II”
7. Milk Maid “Mostly No”
8. Moon Duo “Circles”
9. Clinic “Free Reign”
10. Andy Stott “Luxury Problems”
11. Om Advaitic Songs
12. Grass Widow “Internal Logic”
13. Track: Horse Feathers “Last Waltz”
14. Track: Animal Collective “Today’s Supernatural”
15. Reissue: The Velvet Underground & Nico
16. Reissue: My Bloody Valentine Loveless / Isn’t Anything
17. Reissue: Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set
18. Reissue: The Raincoats S/T
19. Show: Every minute of SXSW (but specifically – Amen Dunes, Psychic Ills, Mikal Cronin, Crystal Antlers, Young Magic, Polica, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Bass Drum of Death, Prince Rama)
20. Show: Jeff Mangum @ Athenaeum
21. Show: Spiritualized @ Metro

Tim Quinlan
1. cloud nothings “attack on memory”
2. frank ocean “channel orange”
3. flying lotus “until the quiet comes”
4. daughn gibson “all hell”
5. goat “world music”
6. lee fields & the expressions “faithful man”
7. killer mike “r.a.p. music”
8. menahan street band “the crossing”
9. brother ali “good mourning in america”
10. gaslight anthem “handwritten”

Colman Cooney
Top 5 in order:
1) The Men – Open Your Heart
It’s like a kick in the dick in the best way possible.

2) Goat – World Music
This Swedish “alternative fusion music group” (wikipedia) comes out of absolutely nowhere to give the perfect fuzzy, tribal psyche soundtrack for summoning your familiars to sacrifice your neighbor’s butterball first-born.

3) George Harrison – Early Takes Vol. 1
I like All Things Must Pass, but I could never really love it- I always thought it tried to do too much. So here, with 10 tracks, 35 minutes, and simple (if any) arrangements, George’s songwriting gets a bare-bones display, and is all the more moving for it.

4) Bobby Womack – Bravest Man in the Universe
The soul staple pours his dying guts out to a club beat. I don’t know what Lana del Rey is doing here (besides emaciated moaning), but Gil gives a posthumous appearance immediately after to balance it out a little.

5) Donnie & Joe Emerson – Dreamin’ Wild
The kind of dudes you’d expect to see performing at a bowling alley on a Monday night in 1982, playing outdated AM funk, singing unintelligible lyrics to a sad discoball backdrop and a bad teenage makeout session. And they’re totally sincere and it’s the most endearing thing I’ve maybe ever heard.

And the rest:
Peaking Lights – Lucifer
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Nenah Cherry & the Thing – The Cherry Thing
Dr. John – Locked Down
Liars – WIXIW
Wild Nothing – Nocturne
Dinosaur Jr. – I Bet on Sky
AC Newman – Shut Down the Streets
V/A – Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers EP
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Beach House – Bloom
Royal Headache – Royal Headache
Tanlines – Emotions
Gentleman Jesse – Leaving Atlanta

Gar Brandt
In no particular order
Clinic “Free Reign”
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell “Don’t Hear It Fear It”
Men “Open Your Heart”
High On Fire “De Vermis Mysteriius”
Goat “World Music”
Frank Ocean “Channel Orange”
Meshuggah “Koloss”
Swans “Seer”
Bloodiest “Descent”
Howler “America Give Up”
Turing Machine “What Is The Meaning Of What”
Japandroids “Celebration Rock”
Off “Off”
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Favorite Live Show
Japandroids at Pitchfork
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Favorite in-store
Bloodiest at WP Record Store Day

Steve Rahman
Top 5 Hip Hop Releases, in no particular order
Oddisee – “People Hear What They See”
Long awaited, but so worth it. If you’re like O has one of the best
flow/ voice/ lyrics combos in the game, & this is a great example of
that.

Aesop Rock – “Skelethon”
Never really liked this sort of left field Hip Hop, but what stands out
to me here is through the density of the lyrics and the dark feeling of
paranoia that’s just all over this record, the soundscape has a groove
to it.

Kendrick Lamar – “Good Kid, m.A.A.d City”
This is one of those records that straddles the line between mainstream
largesse, & underground artistry with great results. A more complete
record, in terms of what’s become the template for Hip Hop I didn’t hear
all year. Kendrick really makes good on the hype.

Nas – “Life is Good”
This record is Nas doing what Nas does best. Over some of the best
production he’s had since “Illmatic.” While it’s not the “Hear, My Dear”

Apollo Brown & O.C. / Guilty Simpson – “Trophies / Dice Game”
I know it’s supposed to be my top 5, but these two really stand together
to make the point that Apollo Brown makes dope beats, and that’s really
saying something with two world class MCs really going hard on these
records.

Top 5 Everything Else

Metric – “Synthetica”
Esperanza Spaulding – “Radio Music Society”
Robert Glasper Experiment – “Black Radio”
Rihanna – “Unapologetic”
Frank Ocean – “Channel Orange”

Leo Ciccone
THE ALCHEMIST. RUSSIAN ROULETTE
KAREEM RIGGINS. ALONE TOGETHER
JEFF PARKER TRIO. BRIGHT LIGHT IN WINTER
LAZER SWORD. MEMORY
RICARDO VILLALOBOS. WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY FRIENDS?
ELIOT LIPP. SHARK, WOLF, RABBIT, SNAKE
CLARK. IRADELPHIC
MAKER. MAKER VS NOW & AGAIN 2
KILLER MIKE R.A.P.
JOSH ABRAHAMS. REPRESENCING

Dan Worland
The Men – Open Your Heart
Royal Headache – s/t
DIIV – Oshin
Disappears – Pre Language
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
White Wires – WWIII
Bry Webb – Provider
Tight Phantomz – Silk Prison

Arpad Lep
10 favorites from 2012
10. SERENGETI “Kenny Dennis EP” South Side Chicago raps on Vienna Beef & Shaq
9. TENNISCOATS “Papa’s Ear” Japanese couple accompanied by folksy studio musicians make bedroom rock CD ONLY
8. MUSETTE “Drape Me in Velvet” Quiet vintage soundtrack music gently reworked by a Swedish nerd
7. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS “Cut the World” Recorded in Copenhagen with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra
6. MARIACHI EL BRONX “Mariachi El Bronx/ The Bronx” Hard rock mariachi music from California RSD 2012 LP ONLY
5. BITCHIN BAJAS “Vibraquatic” Arpeggiated modulated synthesizer ragas from Chicago RSD 2012 LP ONLY
4. DEATH & VANILLA “Death & Vanilla” Dreamy Swedish “library music” 20 years too late for a Duophonic Super 45
3. KELAN PHILIP COHRAN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE “Kelan Philip Cohran & the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble” Father & (eight!) sons’ Chicago jazz group goes way beyond the drum line
2. GOAT “World Music” Sweden- not Belize- & what garage rock should sound like. Screaming lady, burning guitar, tribal drums
1. DEAN BLUNT & INGA COPELAND “Black is Beautiful” Hyperdub records’ elegant yet dreadful electronic beats meets “20 Jazz Funk Greats”
ALSO
Martin Sorrondeguy (LOS CRUDOS, LIMP WRIST) released “Get Shot- A Visual Diary 1985-2012” a photo essay (hardcover book) of punk culture by a living legend

Billy Smith
Bob Mould “Silver Age”
Soundgarden “King Animal”
Rufus Wainwright “Out Of The Game”
Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnasan “Solaris”
Thomas Ades “Tevot”, Rattle; Berliner Phil
Swans “Seer”
Fiona Apple “Idler Wheel”
Florence & The Machines “Ceremonials”
Jonsi “We Bought A Zoo” soundtrack
Van Halen “Different Kind Of Truth”
Mason Jennings “Minnesota”

That Gotye song
That Fun. song
St Vincent ‘Cruel’ song

Matt Orenstein
1. Swans – The Seer
2. Dead Can Dance – Anastasis
3. Maggi Payne – Ahh Ahh
4. Guided by Voices – Bears for Lunch
5. Grass Widow – Internal Logic
6. John Maus – Collection of Rarities
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Alleluia …
8. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
9. Windy and Carl – We Will Always Be
10. Jessica Bailiff – At The Down Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky

Melissa Grubbs
-in alphabetical order
Joshua Abrams – Represencing
Allah-Lahs- Catamaran 7″
Francis Bebey- African Electronic Music 1975-1982
Blouse – S/T
Ken Camden/ Matt Clark (split)
Can- Lost Tapes
Death & Vanilla- Death & Vanilla
Devil – Time to Repent (2011)
Diiv- Oshin
Dinosaur Jr- I Bet On Sky
Disappears- Pre Language
Fake Limbs- Man Feelings
Billy Gibbons- Oh Well 7″
Goat- World Music
Kiki Gyan- 24 Hours In A Disco
Lee Hazlewood- LHI Years
Jeremy Lemos/ Matt Jencik (split)
Liars – WIXIW
Ondatropica- Ondatropica
Annette Peacock- I’m the One (vinyl reissue)
Wendy Rene- After Laughter Comes Tears
Spiritualized- Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Allen Toussaint- Life Love & Faith (vinyl reissue)
Sharon Van Etten-  tramp
Gareth Williams & Mary Currie- Flaming Tunes (vinyl reissue)
Witch- We Intend To Cause Havoc box set
Neil Young- Psychedelic Pill
v/a- Country Funk 1969-1975
v/a- Eccentric Soul: Omnibus  (45 box set)
v/a- Essential Seven B Collection (45 box set)
v/a- Man Chest Hair
v/a- Remolino De Oro: Coastal Cumbias from Columbia’s Disco Fuentes 1961-1973
v/a- Personal Space
v/a- Voguing & the House Ballroom Scene vol.1&2

Dave Hofer
Between the Buried & Me – Parallax II: Future Sequence
Car Bomb – WWWW
Chris Cohen – Overgrown Path
El-P – Cancer for Cure
Goatwhore – Blood for the Master
Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown – Dice Game
Jar’d Loose – Goes to Purgatory
Like Rats – S/T
Mesuggah – Koloss
Nokturnal Hellstorm – S/T
Quakers – S/T
Strong Arm Steady & Statik Selektah – Stereotype
Sulaco – Build & Burn

Chris Wilkus
BEST ALBUMS OF 2012 (Alphabetically by Artist)

ANGEL OLSEN “Half Way Home” (BATHETIC)
ATTALOOM “Dream World” (BANDCAMP)
BLUES CONTROL “Valley Tangents” (DRAG CITY)
BRIAN ENO “Lux” (WARP RECORDS)
CARETAKER, THE “Extra Patience (After Sebald) (soundtrack) (BANDCAMP)
CHROMATICS “Kill For Love” (ITALIANS DO IT BETTER)
DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT “Love This Giant” (4AD)
DEAN BLUNT “The Narcissist II” (HIPPOS IN TANKS)
DIRTY PROJECTORS “Swing Lo Magellan” (DOMINO RECORDS)
DISAPPEARS “Pre Language” (KRANKY)
DYLAN ETTINGER “Lifetime of Romance” (NOT NOT FUN)
GOAT “World Music” (STRANDED REKORDS)
HAROLD BUDD “Bandits of Stature” (DARLA RECORDS)
HOLY OTHER “Held” (TRI-ANGLE RECORDS)
M. GEDDES GENGRAS “Test Leads” (HOLY MOUNTAIN)
MATTHEW E. WHITE “Big Inner” (HOMETAPES)
MI AMI “Decade” (100% SILK)
MOMUS “Bibliotek” (DARLA RECORDS)
MONSTER RALLY “Beyond the Sea” (GOLD ROBOT RECORDS)
MUSETTE “Drape Me In Velvet” (HAPNA)
SOFT MOON, THE “Zeros” (CAPTURED TRACKS)
TANLINES “Mixed Emotions” (TRUE PANTHER)
THEE OH SEES “Putrifiers II” (IN THE RED)
TIM HECKER & DANIEL LOPATIN “Instrumental Tourist” (SOFTWARE)
UMBERTO “Night Has a Thousand Screams” (ROCK ACTION)

BEST EP’s of 2012 (Alphabetically by Artist)

DUM DUM GIRLS “End of Daze EP” (SUB POP)
JOHN FRUSCIANTE “Letur-Lefr EP” (RECORD COLLECTION)
oOoOO “Our Love Is Hurting Us EP”
STAY+ “Fuck Christian Aids EP”
TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke & Lunice) “TNGHT EP” (WARP RECORDS)

BEST HIP HOP/R&B ALBUMS OF 2012

10 RON ARTISTE (ROC ‘C’ & CHALI 2NA) “R.I.D.S. (Riot In Da Stands)” (KASHROC)
9 IGGY AZALEA “Trap Gold” (GRAND HUSTLE)
8 THEOPHILUS LONDON “Rose Island, Vol .1” (LVRS)
7 MAIN ATTRAKIONZ “Bossalinis & Fooliyones” (YOUNG ONE)
6 SPACEGHOSTPURRP “Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles” (4AD)
5 FREDDIE GIBBS “Baby Face Killa” (SELF-RELEASED)
4 BIG BOI “Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors” (ISLAND/DEF JAM)
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS “GOOD Music presents Cruel Summer” (GOOD MUSIC/DEF JAM)
2 FRANK OCEAN “Channel Orange” (DEF JAM)
1 THE WEEKND “Trilogy” (3CD Reissue) (REPUBLIC RECORDS)

Brook Sinkinson Withrow
Top digs:
Lonnie Holley – Just Before Music
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Goat – World Music
Angel Olsen – Halfway Home
The Orb – The Orbserver in the Starhouse (ft. Lee Scratch Perry)
Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet the Congos – Icon Give Thank & Icon Eye
Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Cherry Thing
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems ft. Alison Skidmore

Top comp:
Personal Space – Chocolate Industries, research by Rob Sevier of Numero Group

& some reissues too:
RAM – Paul & Linda McCarthy
Rodriguez – Cold Fact
D’Angelo – Voodoo
Sha’Lor – I’m in Love

Kevin Moser
(no particular order)
*V/A “Man Chest Hair”
*V/A- Voguing & the House and Ballroom Scene of New York City
*V/A “Personal Space”
*Blouse “S/T”
*Neneh Cherry & The Thing “Cherry Thing”
*Annette Peacock “I’m the One” (reissue)
*Andy Stott “Luxury Problems”
*Death & Vanilla “S/T”
*Melody’s Echo Chamber “S/T”
*Scott Walker “Bish Bosch”

Kate Ruggeri
GOAT- WORLD MUSIC
SCOTT WALKER- BISH BOSCH
QUAKERS- S/T
FRANK OCEAN- CHANNEL ORANGE
BOBBY WOMACK- BRAVEST MAN IN THE UNIVERSE
ANDY STOTT- LUXURY PROBLEMS
NENEH CHERRY & THE THING- THE CHERRY THING
CAN- LOST TAPES
WITCH- WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC! BOX
GEORGE HARRISON- EARLY TAKES
ORB & LEE SCRATCH PERRY- OBSERVER IN THE STAR HOUSE
V/A- PERSONAL SPACE: ELECTRONIC SOUL 1974-84
V/A- VOGUING & THE HOUSE & BALLROOM SCENE OF NEW YORK CITY

Patrick Campbell

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti –  mature themes
matthew friedberger – matricidal sons of bitches
et habit – panthers on the roof
apache dropout – bubblegum graveyard
bitchin bajas- vibraquatic
Mr Impossible- Black Dice
death grips – money store
timmys organism – raw sewage roq
radar eyes – s/t
running- asshole savant

Kevin Hein
In no particular order-
Ant’lrd- Seeming Fields (collage/folk/classical/books&
spoken/children’s music)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon- s/t- (Slowdive meets Vashti Bunyan meets J Dilla)
Blues Control- Valley Tangents (flutes/fuzz guitars/midi trumpets)
Mirroring- Foreign Body (riding your bike though the fog)
Actress- RIP (the span of time when you are neither awake or asleep)
Arborist- Wooded Hoodlands (lost in the forrest with a backpack and a sampler)
Whirr- Distressor (crushing 3-guitar gaze for your afternoon beer buzz)
Jefre Cantu Ledesma- Faceless Kiss 7″ (Tim Hecker meets Cocteau Twins)
Gaurdian Alien- See The World Given To A One Love Entity (tribal psych shit)
Flying Lotus- Until The Quiet Comes (“thai restaurant music” -co-worker)
Sun Araw/Congos- Icon Give Thank (more FRKWYS! thanks RVNG INTL!)
Dean Blunt/Inga Copeland- Black Is Beautiful (ancient samurai cocaine den)
Andy Stott- Luxury Problems (subterranean thump a-whump bump thump)
Hecker/Lopatin- Instrumental Tourist (a co-worker and I dreamed up this collaboration long before it happened. then it did. and it sounds just like you think it would)
Lovesliescrushing- Glinter (ethereal whispers amongst the clouds. beautiful packaging to boot)
Camera- Radiate (care of Michael Rother)
Teengirl Fantasy- Tracer (80’s MIDI pop- now with digital pan flute arpeggios!)
Steve Hauschildt- Sequitur (synth-pop? new age.)
Emeralds- Just To Feel Anything (Emeralds have been listening to Harold Faltermeyer and 90’s Tangerine Dream)
Laurel Halo- Quarantine (“is she getting stabbed in the recording booth?” -Billy Smith)
Loscil- Sketches of New Brighton (bleak bliss)

Comps/Reissues-
Medicine LP box set (Shot Forth Self Living/Buried Life/Sounds of Medicine)
Ride- Going Blank Again LP (affordable domestic reissue, 45 rpm! wheee)
Loop- Heaven’s End LP (way to go Reactor! now can we have the other two?)
Harold Budd- In The Mist LP issue (came out last year, but not pressed on vinyl till 2012.)
Robin Guthrie- After The Night Falls / Before The Day Breaks / Bordeaux w/Harold Budd (also for the first time on vinyl!)
Maggi Payne- Ahh-Ahh: Music for Ed Tannenbaum’s Technological Feets 1984-1987 (Apple II-core)
D’Angelo- Voodoo LP (much needed reissue, as the original usually goes for over $100)
Sensations’ Fix- Music is a Painting On Air (RVNG INTL at it again)
Dreamscape- La-Di-Da Recordings (lush chorused out haze)
My Bloody Valentine- EPs 1988-1991 (Instrumental #2!)

Dominique D’Amico
Top 10 releases of 2012 in no particular order:
Bert Jansch – Heartbreak  30th Anniversary Edition (reissue)
Musette – Drape me in Velvet
Shoes – Black Vinyl Shoes (reissue)
Spritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Cottonwood – Camaraderie (reissue)
George Harrison – Early Takes Volume 1
Michael Chapman – Rainmaker (reissue)
Donnie and Joe Emerson – Dreamin’ Wild (reissue)
Carroll King – The Legendary Demos
Belbury poly and the Advisory Council – Study Series 08

Ethan D’Ercole
ZIPPS- Kicks & Chicks: Ever Stoned (Pseudonym)
MOTIONS- Wasted Words: the Havoc 45’s (Pseudonym)
COSMIC DEALER- Crystallization (Pseudonym)
FRANCIS BEBEY- African Electronic Music (Born Bad)
SUMMER GIRLFRIENDS- Shockwaves (Addenda)
V/A- Personal Space (Chocolate Industries/Numero)

Friends of Reckless

Stephen Sowley (Studio manager at Electrical Audio, FAKE LIMBS nudist)
21 for ‘12—No Order
Killer Mike—R.A.P. Music DLP
Nick Edwards—Plexzationz DLP
Azaelia Banks—Fantasea mixtape
RyJ—Nicki Minaj Pickle Juice Mix
everything IRON LUNG RECORDS released this year (Slices, True Radical Miracle, Walls, Kim Phuc, Dead Language, Useless Children, and so on into infinity.)
Daughn Gibson—All Hell LP
Bill Orcutt—Why Do People Love Free Music But Don’t Love Free People? cass//Harry Pussy—One + One DLP
Sublime Frequencies 45’s
Can—Lost Tapes CD Boxset
Shoppers—Silver Year LP
Aufgehoben—Fragments Of The Marble Plan LP
the band No Statik
Ropes—Demo II 7”
Andy Stott—Luxury Problems DLP
Swans—The Seer TLP
Codeine—When I See The Sun box set
Hysterics—2012 Demos cassette
Shannon Wright live.
Jessica Skolnik’s Civil Union Ceremony Playlist
Screaming Females—Ugly DLP
Joshua Abrams—Represencing LP

LOVE ALWAYS WINS: John Grabski III, Jason Noble, Reggie Destin and Tony Janda.

Chris Robert (ex Reckless)

vapor gourds-dagger music
aaron dilloway- modern jester
eliane radigue- feedback works
ricardo villalobos – dependent & happy
harry pussy- 1+1
shadow ring- remains unchanged
gareth williams and marie curie- flaming tunes
robert turman- flux
yeast culture- iys
duane pitre- feel free
moritz von oswald trio- fetch
burt jansch- LA turnaround
mayor daley- live in NOLA
shantytown orchestra final performance
v/a- many, many ethiopian tapes from domino record shack

Antoine Richard (Onite/ Hands in the Dark Records)
My 5 favorite records this year, no particular order and excess jigoism:
– Death and Vanilla ‘S/T”
– Fabulous Diamonds “Commercial Music”
– Mind Over Mirrors “Check Your Swing”
– Goat “World Music”
– Mirroring “Foreign Body”

Bobby Burg (Joan of Arc/ Love of Everything)
Earthquake Party- vs Pizza (cassette)
The Men – Open Your Heart
Bare Mutants- Inside My Head (7″)
Mind Spiders – Meltdown
Heavy Times – Jacker
Bleached – Electric Chair (7″)
Iceage – New Brigade
Total Control – Henge Beat
Jimmy Whispers – Summer in Pain (unreleased)
Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls

Brian Case (Disappears)
Top 11

Liars – WIXW
Beak> – >>
Clinic – Free Reign
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II
Raime – Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Savages – EP and 7″
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
Oneida – A List of The Burning Mountains
Metz – Metz
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
White/Light – Live cover of Maggot Brain

Reissues / Unreleased

Dreamscape – La Di Da Recordings
Sensations Fix – Music is Painting in the Air
Sonic Youth – Live at Smart Bar
Naomi Punk – Naomi Punk (technically a re-issue!)
Can – Lost Tapes

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani (Matador Records)

The Best Records Of 2012
1. Black Breath – Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
2. White Lung – Sorry (Deranged)
3. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe (XL)
4. Ceremony – Zoo (Matador)
5. The Men – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
6. Cate Le Bon – CYRK (The Control Group)
7. Shintaro Sakamoto – How To Live With A Phantom (Other Music Recordings)
8. Bob Mould – Silver Age (Merge)
9. Die Antwoord – Ten$ion (Zef Recordz)
10. Nude Beach – II (Other Music Recordings)
11. A.C. Newman – Shut Down The Streets (Matador Records)
12. Father John Misty – Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
13. 200 Years – 200 Years (Drag City)

DRAG CITY’S BEST OF 2012
Allah Las – S/t (Innovative Leisure)
Apache Dropout – Bubblegum Graveyard (Trouble In Mind)
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel… (Clean Slate/Epic)
The Babies – Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
Baby Tears – Rusty Years (Rainy Road)
Bailter Space – Strobosphere (Arch Hill)
Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made the Radio (Capitol)
Josh Berman & His Gang – There Now (Delmark)
Bitchin’ Bajas – Vibraquatic (Kallistei Editions)
Cat Power – Sun (Matador)
Sylvan Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu – Palmimpsest (Schwebung)
Kehlan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – S/t (Honest Jon’s)
Al Cisneros – “Dismas” 7″ (Sinai)
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
Django Django – S/t (Because Music)
Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
Harris Eisenstadt – Canada Day Octet (482 Music)
Emptyset – Medium (Subtext)
Every Hidden Color – Luz (Streamline)
Maxine Funke – Felt (self-released)
Guida – “Get Over It” 7” (White Zoo)
Herculaneum – UCHŪ (self-released)
Home Blitz – “Frozen Track” EP (Mexican Summer)
The Howling Hex – Navajo Rag cassette (self-released)
If – Bill (self-released)
Innergaze – Mutual Dreaming (Cititrax)
Graham Lambkin – Amateur Doubles (Kye)
Ahmad Jamal – Blue Moon (Jazz Village)
King Blood – Vengeance, Man (Richie Records/Testostertunes)
Kool Keith – Love and Danger (Junkadelic)
KTL – V (Editions Mego)
Lazy – “Party City” 7” (Moniker)
Steve Lehman Trio – Dialect Florescent (Pi Recordings)
Mad Scene – Blip (Siltbreeze)
Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Fetch (Honest Jon’s)
The Mynabirds – Generals (Saddle Creek)
Puffy Areolas – 1982: Dishonorable Discharge (Hozac)
Royal Headache- Royal Headache (What’s Yr Rupture)
Ruined Fortune – “Bulls Eye” 7” (RIP Society)
Running – Asshole Savant (Captcha)
Ty Segall – Slaughterhouse (In the Red)
Shackleton – Music for the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar EPs (Woe to the Septic Heart!)
Aram Shelton – Everything For Everybody (Singlespeed Music)
The Soft Moon- Zeros (Captured Tracks)
Spacin’ – Deep Thuds (Richie Records/Testostertunes)
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum)
Street Chant- “Frail Girls”/”Salad Daze” 7” (Arch Hill)
Times New Viking – Over and Over (Siltbreeze)
Transverse – Carter Tutti Void (Mute)
U.S. Girls GEM (Fatcat)
UV Race – Racism (In the Red)
VCMG – Ssss (Mute)
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch (4AD)
White Fence – Family Perfume Vol 1 & 2 (Woodsist)
Windbreaker/Gel Set – Split 12″ [Seehrs]
Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In the Universe (XI)
ZZ Top – La Futura (Mercury)

Reissues

Arica – Music In the Nine Rings (Poodle)
Can – Lost Tapes (Mute)
Celer – I, Anatomy (Streamline)
Don Cherry – Organic Music Society (Caprice)
Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation (B-Music)
Miles Davis – Miles Ahead (mono) (Columbia)
Dead C – Harsh 70s Reality (Siltbreeze)
Cleaners from Venus – Midnight Cleaners/Blow Away Your Troubles/On Any Normal Monday (Captured Tracks)
Clare Fischer Orchestra – Extension (International Phonograph)
Gary Sloan and Clone – Harmonitalk (B-Music)
Grateful Dead – Dark Star, Olympia Theatre, Paris France, 5/4/72 (Rhino)
Grateful Dead – Winterland, May 30, 1971  (Rhino)
Julius Hemphill – Dogon AD (International Phonograph)
Hotlegs – You Didn’t Like It Because You Didn’t Think of It: The Complete Sessions 1970 -71 (Grapefruit)
laiyaraaja – Fire Star (Bombay Connection)
Jade Warrior – Released (Tapestry)
David Kilgour –  Here Come the Cars (DeStijl)
Albert Mangelsdorff – Tension (Jazzhus)
Paul and Linda McCartney – Ram (mono) (EMI)
Noh Mercy – S/t (Superior Viaduct)
Annette Peacock – I’m The One (Light In The Attic)
The Pin Group – Ambivalence (Flying Nun)
Porter Ricks – Biokinetics (Type)
The Shadow Ring – Remains Unchanged (Kye)
Screaming Urge – “Homework” 7” (Sing Sing)
Sema – Time Will Say Nothing 1982-1984 Box (Vinyl On Demand)
Sleep – Dopesmoker (Southern Lord)
Toy Love – Live at the Gluepot (Real Groovy/Goner)
Tronics – Love Backed by Force (What’s Your Rupture)
Trypes – Music for Neighbors (Acute Records)
V/A – Personal Space: Electronic Soul (Chocolate Industries)
V/A –  Time To Go (Flying Nun)

Dave Destroyer (Revolver Distribution)
– KRAUS “Supreme Commander”
– CHEATER SLICKS “Reality is a Grape”
– PETE SWANSON “Pro Style”
– MOON POOL & DEAD BAND “Human Fly”
– NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS “Night Coercion into the Company of Witches”
– PUMICE “Puny”
– POD BLOTZ “White…Black…Spectrum Infinity”
– STRATEGY “Strategy”
– BLUES CONTROL “Valley Tangents”
– LA VAMPIRES WITH MARIA MINERVA “Integration LP”

Todd C. Curtis (Music Direct)
bailter space – strobosphere (fire)
david kilgour – here come the cars (de stijl)
furze – psych minus space control (FYSISK FORMAT)
goat – world music (rocket recordings)
grimes – visions (4ad)
lee ranaldo – between the times and the tides (matador)
mad scene – blip (siltbreeze)
peaking lights – lucifer (mexican summer)
remolino de oro: coastal cumbias from colombia’s discos fuentes (domino sound)
time to go: the southern psychedelic moment 1981-1986 (flying nun)
tukaaria – raw to the rapine (profound lore)
tyvek – on triple beams (in the red)
unwound – live leaves (unwound)
violens – true (slumberland)
violeta vil – lapidas y cocoteros (discoteca oceano)

reissues:
aphrodite’s child – 666 (missing vinyl)
gene clark – no other (4 men with beards)
pin group – ambivalence (flying nun)
ride – going blank again (obscure)
tears for fears – songs from the big chair (mobile fidelity)
the max block – aire ache in the belly of the leech (siltbreeze)

Scott Morrow (ALARM Magazine music editor)
Liberteer: Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees (Relapse)
Sigh: In Somniphobia (Candlelight)
Meshuggah: Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
Clark: Iradelphic (Warp)
Matt Chamberlain: Company 23 (Yanki Arc)
Squarepusher: Ufabulum (Warp)
Killer Mike: RAP Music (Williams Street)
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra: BUM BUM (Alien Transistor)
Om: Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
Guano Padano: 2 (Ipecac)
Jerseyband: Forever Hammer EP
Menomena: Moms (Barsuk)
Between the Buried and Me: The Parallax II: Future Sequence (Metal Blade)
P.O.S: We Don’t Even Live Here (Rhymesayers, 10/23/12)
The Casket Lottery: Real Fear (No Sleep)
Sole: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing

Henry Owings (Chunklet)

New stuff:
Major Stars “Decibels of Gratitude” (Important/Twisted Village)
Loincloth “Iron Balls of Steel” (Southern Lord)
Mount Carmel “Real Women” (Siltbreeze)
Disappears “Pre Language” (Kranky)
Gay Witch Abortion “Opportunistic Smokescreen Behavior” (Learning Curve)
No Anchor “John Dominance Tapes” “The Golden Bridge” & “Rope” 7″ (self released)
Video “Leather Leather” (Play Pinball)
Dope Body “Natural History” (Drag City)
Obnox “I’m Bleeding Now” (12XU)
Blank Realm “Go Easy” (Siltbreeze)
Apache Dropout “Bubblegum Graveyard” (Trouble in Mind)
Metz “Dirty Shirt” & s/t (Sub Pop)
Old Baby “Forthcoming LP” (Karate Body)
Van Halen “A Different Kind of Truth” (Interscope)
Telephone Man “reissue” (Temp Residence)
Bill Fox “One Thought Revealed” (Jar Note)
Kim Phuc “Copsucker” (Iron Lung)
Fake Limbs “Man Feelings”
I also have been listening incessantly to a handful of live recordings by Survival Knife (Trosper/Unwound’s new jam), along with various tracks by OBNIIIs, Stnnng and Obits.

Old stuff:
Alex Chilton “Free Again 1970 sessions” (Omnivore)
Unwound “Live Leaves” (self released)
Can “Lost Tapes” box (Mute)
Wicked Lady reissues
Rites of Spring “6 Song Demo” (Dischord)
Moss Icon “Discography” (TempRes)
Velvet Underground and Nico “IN MONO!!!!!” (Universal)
Soggy “Slog” (Memoire Neuve)

Jefre Cantu (Root Strata)

In no particular order:
Suzanne Ciani – Voices Of Packaged Souls
Roe Enney – All Or Nuthin (Rhyme Or Reason)
The Durutti Column- Short Stories for Pauline
Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996 & Dutch Tvashar Plumes
Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescalleet – Grapes & Snakes
Andrew Chalk – Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies’ Wave Serene
Jandek – Maze of The Phantom
Woo – It’s Cozy Inside
Gareth Williams & Marie Currie – Flaming Tunes
Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe

Brett Andrew Grossman (Resident Animal Doctor/ Former Child Star)

In an order:
1. Samantha Glass “Midnight Arrival” (Buy Tape) / Mysteries from the Palomino Skyliner” (Not Not Fun)
2. Thought Broadcast “Emergency Stairway” Editions Mego
3. Lotus Plaza “Spooky Action at a Distance” (Kranky)
4. Human Teenager “Animal Husbandry” Spectrum Spools
5. Chris Cohen “Overgrown Patch” (Captured Tracks)
6. Ty Segall “Twins” (Drag City)
7. Animal Collective “Centipede Hz” (Domino)
8. Tame Impala “Lonerism” (Modular Recordings)
9. Swans “The Seer” (Young God)
10. Bare Mutants “Without you (Hozac)
11. Au “Both Lights” (Home Tapes)
12. Woods “Bend Beyond” (Woodsist)
13. Andrew Bird “Break it Yourself (Mom & Pop)
14. Blitzen Trapper “Destroyer Of The Void” (Subpop)
15. Orcas “Orcas” (Morr Music)
16. Daniel Rossen “Silent Hour” EP (Warp)
17. Angel Olsen “Half Way Home” (Bathetic)
18. Beach House “Bloom” (Sub Pop)
19. Merchandise “Children of Desire” (Katorga Works)
20. Grass Widow “Internal Logic” (HLR)
21. Goat “World Music” (Rocket)
22. White Fence “Family Perfume Vol 1 & 2” (Woodsist)
23. Peaking Lights “Lucifer” (Mexican Summer)