>> DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN – No Need for Alarm 2LP (Get On Down) *30th Anniversary – #’d & Ltd. Color Vinyl
Sophomore release from DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN, & 30 years later it’s become a classic. Del’s first LP was put together with some help from his cousin, ICE CUBE & it should be no surprise to listeners that this second record, produced primarily by Hiero crew members Domino, A-Plus, Casual & Del himself, is a bit Jazzier & less G-Funky. Del’s got a great ear, a great pen, & an incredible voice, & if you don’t have a copy of this recOrd, you should grab this anniversary release before it’s too late. Promise you it’s worth it. RECOMMENDED!
>> ARIEL KALMA, JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA HONER – The Closest Thing to Silence LP/CD (International Anthem)
This collaboration between French-Australian new age luminary ARIEL KALMA and Int’l Anthem experimentalists JEREMIAH CHIU and MARTA SOFIA HONER was born at first from a meeting on BBC Radio’s “Late Junction” series, where the trio would exchange and work on fragments of each other’s original music. The initial twenty minute broadcast inspired them to expand their collaboration into a full length album, weaving together classical minimalism, fourth world rhythmic jazz, drone & sound design into a captivating collage. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> THE LAST DINNER PARTY – Prelude to Ecstasy LP (Island) *”Midnight” Black Vinyl w/ poster
UK five-piece THE LAST DINNER PARTY have built up an impressive amount of hype in their short time as a band, cracking the charts overseas and opening for the STONES all without a full-length to their name. Now Prelude to Ecstasy is finally here and, frankly, it rules. Bombastic & theatrical alt-pop in the vein of SPARKS or KATE BUSH with hooks for days, a really inventive rhythm section, and some serious guitar heroics that also line this up neatly with ST VINCENT or T.REX. Produced by JAMES FORD (JESSIE WARE, ARCTIC MONKEYS) and HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Chicago “experimental heavy band” METH. are back with another heater, their second on Prosthetic Records. Shame’s seven tracks assault the senses relentlessly with pummeling tempos & harsh sonics that, in concert with the vox & lyrics, offer a stark, harrowing glimpse into cycles of addiction, trauma & depression. They channel many of the same influences as peers like CHAT PILE and PRIMITIVE MAN – i.e. if you’re a fan of GODFLESH, THE JESUS LIZARD, SWANS BIG BLACK/SHELLAC etc, you’ll find lots to love here and you’ll relish the challenging listen. Another Chi-town drop we can be proud of… RECOMMENDED!
OTHER NEW RELEASES, REISSUES & RESTOCKS:
ALL TIME LOW – Put Up or Shut Up LP (Hopeless) *2024 Reissue – Yellow Vinyl
ANGEL HAIR – Insect Immortality LP (Three One G) *Reissue – Color Vinyl
STEVIE WONDER – Songs in the Key of Life 2LP (Motown) *Reissue w/ book & 7″ – Back in stock!
LINK WRAY – Jack the Ripper LP (Sundazed) *Blood Red Vinyl
VARIOUS – Eccentric Soul: The Shoestring Label LP (Numero Group) *Black or Ltd. “Jimmie Green” Vinyl
>> VARIOUS – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits LP (Heavenly Sweetness) *Back in stock!
VARIOUS – Industrial Accident LP (Wax Trax!) *Soundtrack to 2018 documentary featuring “unrealeased & classics” by FRONT 242, MINISTRY, KMFDM, CHRIS CONNELLY and more w/ 40 pg. book – Black Vinyl back in stock and Ltd. Blue Vinyl now available✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
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>> BENNY THE BUTCHER – Everybody Can’t Go LP/CD (Def Jam)
Griselda’s knife-man is always ready to kill a beat. BENNY THE BUTCHER has an uncomplicated flow & style that’s never out of place. That’s not to say he’s not a great lyricist, that’s to say that sometimes the gymnastics aren’t the draw. See, what Benny does is put together rhymes, flows, & beats for a complete experience, you can vibe to it, but the drums knock hard enough to get people on the dance floor. You can put it on at the party, but your writer-ly friends can rock with the penmanship. It’s a one-stop shop for any fan of good Hip-Hop music. RECOMMENDED!
>> FUTURE ISLANDS – People Who Aren’t There Anymore LP (4AD) *Black or Indie Exclusive Clear Vinyl
7th full length album for Baltimore indie mainstays FUTURE ISLANDS, rooting themselves again in their trademark synth-pop sound influenced instrumentally by NEW ORDER and THE HUMAN LEAGUE with Sam Herring’s recognizable bellow floating above. On 4AD and RECOMMENDED!
>> ZANDER RAYMOND – To Have Several Lives LP (Sound As Language) *Remastered – Ltd. Green Vinyl ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Beautiful ambient record from Chicago’s ZANDER RAYMOND that was originally released in 2022. To Have Several Lives centers on improvisation, making use of modular synths and samples to construct a non-linear sound design. The result is a beautiful, often surprising set of vignettes, sketching outer worlds and inviting Inner calm. Now newly remastered for vinyl, this comes HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> TY SEGALL – Three Bells 2LP/CD/CS (Drag City)
Three Bells might be the most sprawling record TY SEGALL has ever made, and if you’re familiar with Ty’s work then you know that’s no small feat. Many of these tracks aren’t “songs” so much as they are densely layered suites: they start at one point before morphing over several minutes into an entirely different beast, and then they build to a mighty crescendo before moving on to the next cycle. If you imagine the Abbey Road medley made album length then you’re not far off, but you’d also have to factor in Ty’s recent knack for channeling as many genres as possible – garage & psych of course, but also new wave, freak folk, knotty funk, art punk, and the most abrasive bursts of interstitial noise this side of NIN’s Downward Spiral. The sprawl is tied together by a massive sense of groove and an almost jazzy swing to the drums (played by Ty himself), lending the set a swagger that few of Ty’s contemporaries can rival. It’s always a thrill when a songwriter as brilliant as Ty challenges himself & his own conventions, and even more so when they stick the landing. Produced with COOPER CRAIN (✶ ✶ ✶ ✶), on DRAG CITY and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> THE SMILE – Wall of Eyes LP (XL) *Black or Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl w/ limited listening party swag available with purchase while supplies last
This sophomore full length from JONNY GREENWOOD, THOM YORKE and TOM SKINNER drapes their unconventional rhythms in a gauzy, dream-pop atmosphere, at times channeling orchestral, spiritual jazz with textured string & brass arrangements and swirling cosmic synth. Unlike many of the later RADIOHEAD efforts that appear as immaculate studio soundcraft, Wall of Eyes seems instead to embrace disharmony. The ideas are frenetic and loose, and neither YORKE nor GREENWOOD have been as energetic as songwriters in years as they are here. RECOMMENDED!
>> SPRINTS – Letter to Self LP (City Slang) *Ltd. Red Vinyl
Young Irish band SPRINTS drop their debut full-length on City Slang, building off the buzz of a pair of great EPs & a reputation for a ferocious live show. They level up from their road-tested garage-punk sound with a heavy grunge feel that places this in the same continuum as classic HOLE & PJ HARVEY, even as the tempos amp up a la prime MOTÖRHEAD. Band leader Karla Chubb’s world-beating voice & lyrics are the icing on the cake, tying the songs together to make a piece of defiantly cathartic art. Instantly one of the best rock albums of 2024. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> VARIOUS – Sonic Transmutations 8LP Box (Clone)
Sonic Transmutations is an extended compilation album celebrating over three decades of Clone Records. Marking the 31 years – which is coincidentally the national Dutch telephone code – the 8×12 inch box set draws together veteran talent and emerging iconoclasts, transmitting a frequency rooted the imprint’s signature blend of essential dance music while journeying off into territories unknown. In a constant state of unfolding, morphing across phases of matter, Sonic Transmutations purveys an elemental energy that stands in testament to Clone’s enduring legacy and explorations of sounds and structures. RECOMMENDED.
OTHER NEW RELEASES, REISSUES & RESTOCKS:
>> ADAM X – My Acidic Being 12″ (Pinkman)
ALKALINE TRIO – Blood, Hair, & Eyeballs LP (Rise) *Black or Ltd. Black & Bone Color Vinyl – Exclusive “floating eyeball” pen available with purchase while supplies last ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
BANE – Don’t Wait Up LP (Equal Vision) *Reissue – Baby Blue Vinyl
CHRISTOPHER BEAR & DANIEL ROSSEN – Past Lives (Score) LP (A24 Music) *Soundtrack to 2023 film from ex- GRIZZLY BEAR members, featuring new SHARON VAN ETTEN track
BLACK SABBATH – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath LP (Rhino) *50th Anniversary, Rhino “Start Your Ear Off Right” Series – Ltd. Smoke Vinyl
BLUE CHEER – The ’67 Demos LP (Beat Rocket) *Remastered – White Vinyl
PRIMUS – Sailing the Seas of Cheese LP (Interscope) *200g, Black or Yellow Vinyl – Back in stock!
REMEMBER SPORTS – Like a Stone LP (Father/Daughter) *Color Vinyl – Back in stock!
GRUFF RHYS – Sadness Sets Me Free LP/CD (Rough Trade) *Black or Indie Exclusive “Blackberry Neo-Neapolitan” Color Vinyl w/ alternate cover
KEITH RICHARDS – Vintage Vinos 2LP (Mindless) *2024 Reissue – Color Vinyl
>> RIHANNA – Anti 2LP (Def Jam) *Back in stock!
ROD WAVE – Nostalgia 2LP (Alamo) *2023 album now available
ARTHUR RUSSELL – Calling Out of Context 2LP (Audika) *Reissue – Back in stock!
ARTHUR RUSSELL – Instrumentals 2LP (Audika) *Back in stock!
>> ARTHUR RUSSELL – Iowa Dream 2LP (Audika) *Back in stock!
ARTHUR RUSSELL – Love is Overtaking Me 2LP (Audika) *Reissue – Back in stock!
>>ARTHUR RUSSELL – World of Echo 2LP (Audika) *Reissue w/ bonus tracks – Back in stock!
SAN KAZAKGASCAR – Long Tones of August CS (Trouble In Mind) *Explorer Series Vol. 29
YASUAKI SHIMIZU – Kakashi/ Kiren LP (Palto Flats) *Reissues, sold separately – Back in stock!
SIDE BY SIDE – You’re Only Young Once LP (Revelation) *Reissue – Pink Vinyl
SLEATER-KINNEY – Little Rope LP (Loma Vista) *Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl – Late arrival from last week now available, plus Black Vinyl & CDs still in stock
SLEEP TOKEN – Take Me Back to Eden 2LP (Spinefarm) *Back in stock!
THE SMITHEREENS – The Lost Album LP (Sunset Blvd) *Metallic Gold Vinyl, Ltd. 1000
>> SNOOPER – Super Snooper LP (Third Man) *One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock!
SOCCER MOMMY – Clean LP (Fat Possum) *Back in stock!
SPIRITUALIZED – Amazing Grace LP (Fat Possum) *180g, Reissue – Black or “Dove Grey” Vinyl w/ new artwork
THE STROKES – Is This It LP (RCA *Import, Reissue – Ltd. Transparent Red Vinyl w/ alternate “original” glove cover
THE SUPERFINE DANDELION – The Superfine Dandelion LP (Sundazed) *Remastered – Blue Vinyl
THE TANGERINE ZOO – The Tangerine Zoo LP (Sundazed) *Remastered – Chlorophyll Glass Green Vinyl
SUSAN TEDESCHI – Just Won’t Burn LP (Fantasy) *25th Anniversary
TELEVISION – The Blow-Up 2LP (ROIR) *Blue & Green Vinyl – Back in stock!
THUNDERCAT – It is What it Is LP (Brainfeeder) *Red Vinyl – Back in stock!
TORRES – What an Enormous Room LP/CD (Merge) *Black or Peak Vinyl Edition Color Vinyl w/ Blue Side A & White Side B – Posters included w/ purchase while supplies last
ALI FARKA TOURÉ – The Green Album LP (World Circuit) *Reissue
>> TRESPASS FIELD – Trespass Field CS (Trouble In Mind) *Explorer Series Vol. 20 – Back in stock!
>> TWIN PEAKS – Sweet ’17 Singles LP (Grand Jury) *Back in stock! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
>> TWIN PEAKS – Wild Onion LP (Grand Jury) *Back in stock! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
ULVER – Bergtatt LP (Century Media) *180g, Remastered w/ book – Color Vinyl
>> DANNY BROWN – Quaranta LP/CD (Warp) *Black or Ltd. Red Vinyl – One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks now in stock!
After a relatively quiet couple of years, DANNY BROWN got busy in 2023, as Quaranta followed his avant-goofball collaboration with JPEGMAFIA on Scaring the Hoes. Quaranta was written during that interim, and showcases BROWN’s more introspective, reflective side. Lots of jazzy, proggy leftfield production on this – partially helped by THE ALCHEMIST – with features by KASSA OVERALL, MIKE and BRUISER WOLF. EXCELLENT and RECOMMENDED!
>> 90 DAY MEN – We Blame Chicago 5LP Box (Numero Group) *Black or Ltd. “Super Illuminary” Vinyl ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
The late 90s/early 00s was a brilliant time in Chicago music history & one of the finest bands from that era was 90 DAY MEN. They got their start in the St. Louis punk & emo scene then relocated to Chicago. Their sound was a mix of Touch & Go style post-punk & WIRE/BAUHAUS influenced art rock with a solid but fluid rhythm section & towards the end the addition of the Fender Rhodes which gave them a really unique sound. Guitarist/vocalist Brian Case went on form DISAPPEARS and FACS as well as releasing multiple solo records; Bassist Rob Lowe formed LICHENS & worked with Johann Johannsson on the Arrival soundtrack & scored the Candyman remake; and drummer Cayce Key played in BLOODIEST. Their 3 albums are included in this box along with some outtakes & Peel Sessions & another Chicago legend in his own right Tim Kinsella wrote the liner notes. RECOMMENDED!
>> LOU REED – Hudson River Wind Meditations 2LP (Light In The Attic) *Remastered – Black or Coke Bottle Color Vinyl
Originally released in 2007 on a small indie label, LOU REED’s final solo album is available again thanks to Light in the Attic. This music wasn’t originally intended for public release – instead Reed composed these pieces as background music for his meditation, yoga & tai chi practice. The opening piece is nearly 30 minutes of deep, circulating synthesizer tones that sound like a machine breathing, maybe a deep space traveler in cryosleep. Some of the other pieces are darker, almost sine wave & tone experiments that would fit in well on a COIL album. We’re really glad to be able to stock this in our racks. RECOMMENDED!
>> WINDY & CARL – Unreleased Home Recordings 1992-1995 3CD Box (Windy & Carl) *#’d Ltd. Edition w/ signed insert
Originally released in 2020, this collection of home recordings from 1992-1995 is available again in a nifty box with a signed insert! Beautiful dream pop & drone from one of our all-time favorite duos. RECOMMENDED!
>> HIROSHI YOSHIMURA – Surround LP (Temporal Drift) *Remastered – Black or LITA Exclusive Blue Vinyl
This is the first ever reissue of the wonderful 1986 album Surround by HIROSHI YOSHIMURA. The master of Japanese environmental music was selected by an architect to compose music to compliment his company’s new living spaces. Similar to Yoshimura’s other environmental classics inspired by ENO’s ambient works, the music is a meant as a companion to the space where it’s being played or heard. Percussive & melodic vibraphone-esque sounds & mellow digital synth drones with Yoshimura’s expert use of reverb & space. Fans of his other great work, Eno, STEVE ROACH & MIDORI TAKADA should pick this up for sure. RECOMMENDED!
OTHER NEW RELEASES, REISSUES & RESTOCKS:
>> JOE ACOSTA – The Power of Love LP (Now Again) *Reissue
ARILD ANDERSEN GROUP – Affirmation LP (ECM)
>> MULATU ASTATKE – New York – Addis – London: Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 2LP (Strut) *Back in stock!
AWAKEBUTSTILLINBED – Chaos Takes the Wheel & I Am a Passenger 2LP (Tiny Engines) *Ltd. Black & Gold Vinyl
LIAM BAILEY – Dance With Me b/w Mercy Tree 7″ (Big Crown)
THE BETHS & PICKLE DARLING/ CAR SEAT HEADREST – Brand New Colony b/w We Looked Like Giants 7″ (Sub Pop) *”Double A-side” split single with THE POSTAL SERVICE and DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE covers
BIG BLACK – Racer X LP (Touch & Go) *Remastered – Back in stock! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
BIG PUN – Yeeeah Baby 2LP (Get On Down) *Reissue
BILLOW OBSERVATORY – Calque/ Soliton LP (Felte) *Whirlpool Blue Vinyl
BIRTHMARK – Birth of Omni LP (Polyvinyl) *”Goldenrod” Vinyl✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
>> BLACK JOSH & WINO WILLY – Today’s the Day LP (RRC Music)
BLU & NOTTZ – Afrika LP (Nature Sounds)
CLIFFORD BROWN – Memorial Album LP (Blue Note) *180g, Remastered – Classic Vinyl Series
BTS – Dark & Wild Vol. 1 CD (Big Hit) *Box set w/ photocards
>> FAT JON (THE AMPLE SOUL PHYSICIAN) – Lightweight Heavy 2LP (Young Heavy Souls) *Orange Vinyl
>> PAPO FELIX & RAY RODRIGUEZ – Papo Felix Meets Ray Rodriguez LP (Now Again)
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN – So What 2LP (ORG) *25th Anniversary w/ bonus track – RSD Black Friday release back in stock!
GHOST LIFE – Afterlife of the Party LP (Mom’s Basement)
>> GIANNI BREZZO – Filigrani LP (Jakarta)
>> GRAVEDIGGAZ – 6 Feet Deep 2LP (MNRK) *Reissue
GRIM – Message LP (Urashima) *Import, Reissue
>> GOYA GUMBANI – When the Past Bloomed LP (RRC Music)
GREEN DAY – Saviors LP/CD/CS (Reprise) *Black Vinyl, Indie Exclusive Black & Hot Pink Vinyl w/ printed PVC sleeve (while supplies last – first come first serve), or Ltd. Deluxe Edition w/ embossed gatefold jacket & poster
GYPSY – In the Garden LP (Sundazed) *Remastered – Purple Vinyl
GYPSY FARI – Chi-Town Reggae b/w Hail Jah 7″ (Soundway)
MARIKA HACKMAN – Big Sigh LP (Chrysalis) *Indie Exclusive Green Vinyl
MARY HALVORSON – Cloudward LP (Nonesuch)
JOE HARRISON – Shadowboxing LP (Madlib) *Madlib Invazion Music Library Series #7
HI-TEK – Beatbox Studios 2 LP (Fat Beats)
ILL BILL – Billy 2LP (Uncle Howie) *Clear Vinyl
J-ZONE – Intoxicated Skull LP (Madlib) *Madlib Invazion Music Library Series #3
COLTER WALL – Songs of the Plains LP (RCA) *Reissue – Red Vinyl
COLTER WALL – Western Swing & Waltzes LP (RCA) *Reissue – Red Vinyl
>> JAMILA WOODS – Water Made Us LP (Jagjaguwar) *”Arctic Swirl” Vinyl – One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
WOODS OF DESOLATION – As the Stars LP (Season Of Mist)
YIN YIN – Mount Matsu LP (Glitterbeat) *Import
>> HIROSHI YOSHIMURA – Green LP/CS (Light In The Attic) *Black or Color Vinyl – Back in stock!
VARIOUS – Cowboy Bebop LP-Box (Soundtrack) 11LP Box Set (Victor) *25th Anniversary – Ltd. Edition
VARIOUS – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label LP (Numero Group) *Black or “Super Funky Forest” Green & Blue Splatter Vinyl
VARIOUS – Habibi Funk Vol. 1 & Vol. 2: Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World LPs (Habibi Funk) *Both 2LP vols. available, sold separately – Back in stock!
VARIOUS – Hardspace Vol. 1 2LP (Hardspace)
VARIOUS – The Music of Red Dead Redemption II LP (Lakeshore) *Back in stock!
VARIOUS – Nuggets Vol. 2: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1964-1968 2LP (Rhino) *Planned follow-up to the original 1972 comp never before released – Ltd. “Psychedelic Pslatter” Vinyl
VARIOUS – The Soul of New Jersey Vol. 1 LP (Continued Sound)
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RECKLESS RECORDS 1/12/24 NEW RELEASES, REISSUES & RESTOCKS
JHENE AIKO – Sail Out LP (Def Jam) *2024 Reissue
ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK – Computer Sourire LP (Tempo Dischi) *Reissue
ALICE IN CHAINS – Rainier Fog LP (BMG) *5th Anniversary – Exclusive Smog Vinyl
AMON DÜÜL – Disaster/ Lüüd Noma 2LP (Ohr) *Reissue
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO –A.A.C.M., Great Black Music – A Jackson in Your House LP (BYG Actuel) *Import, Remastered – Black or Ltd. Orange Vinyl ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
DOROTHY ASHBY – Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby LP (Cadet) *Verve By Request Series – Back in stock!
GARY CLARK & JOHN CARNEY – Flora & Son (Soundtrack) LP (Lakeshore) *Songs from the Apple musical film starring EVE HEWSON & JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT – Yellow Vinyl
>> JOHN FRUSCIANTE – Empyrean 2LP (Record Collection) *180g, 2nd Press – Back in stock! (12/29)
>> GENTILESKY – Ways of Seeing LP (Hozac)
>> LAUREL HALO – Atlas LP (Awe) *One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock! (12/29)
>> PJ HARVEY – I Inside the Old Year Dying LP (Partisan) **One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock!
>> HAPPY END – Happy End LP (Survival Research) *2023 Reissue – Pink Vinyl (12/29)
H.E.R. x FOO FIGHTERS – Glass 7″ (RCA) *Foo Fighters’ single w/ H.E.R. cover (12/29)
HOZIER – Hozier 2LP (Rubyworks) *Finally back in stock!
>> INCENDIARY – Change the Way You Think About Pain LP (Closed Casket Activities) *One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock!
THE KILLERS – Day & Age 2LP (Island) *10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition w/ bonus tracks – Back in stock!
LADY GAGA – Chromatica 3LP (Interscope) *Back in stock!
>> L.F.T. – Hollow Head LP (Mannequin) (12/29)
>> L.F.T. – SALZ EP (Mannequin) *Import – Back in stock! (12/29)
MELANIE MARTINEZ – After School EP 12″ (Atlantic) *2024 Repress – Orchid Splatter Vinyl
GETATCHEW MEKURYA – Ethiopiques: Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol. 5 LP (Heavenly Sweetness) (12/29)
NED’S ATOMIC DUSTBIN – God Fodder LP (Music On Vinyl) *Import, Reissue – #’d Ltd. Color Vinyl
NIRVANA – Nirvana LP (Geffen) *2002 greatest hits compilation – Back in stock!
OVLOV – Am LP (Exploding In Sound) *2024 Repress – Purple & Clear Vinyl
>> OVLOV – Buds LP (Exploding In Sound) *2024 Repress – Green Vinyl
OVLOV – Tru LP (Exploding In Sound) *2024 Repress – Blue & White Vinyl
PARAMORE – Paramore 2LP (Fueled By Ramen) *10th Anniversary Reissue w/ alternate cover art – Poster & 12×12″ art print available with purchase while supplies last (WP only, other stores next week)
IGGY POP – Lust for Life LP (Virgin) *2017 Reissue – Back in stock!
SKEPTA – Can’t Play Myself (A Tribute to Amy) 12″ (Más Tiempo)
NINA SIMONE – I Put a Spell on You LP (Verve) *180g, Acoustic Sounds Series – Back in stock!
NINA SIMONE – Pastel Blues LP (Verve) *180g, Acoustic Sounds Series – Back in stock!
>> SWELL MAPS – Jane From Occupied Europe LP (Secretly Canadian) *2012 Reissue – Back in stock! (12/29)
>> SWELL MAPS – A Trip to Marineville LP (Secretly Canadian) *2012 Reissue w/ bonus 7″ – Back in stock! (12/29)
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – Flood LP (Idlewild) *Green “Multiverse” Color Vinyl – Back in stock!
RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight LP (Island) *Reissue – Back in stock! (12/29)
TRASHCAN SINATRAS – Cake LP (Last Night From Glasgow) *Remastered – Black or Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Live at Max’s Kansas City 2LP (Cotillion) *Rhino “Start Your Ear Off Right” Series – Expanded Edition, Ltd. Orange & Magenta Vinyl
VIAGRA BOYS – Cave World LP (Year0001) *Back in stock!
V/Z – Suono Assente LP (AD93) (12/29)
WEDNESDAY – I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone LP (Dead Oceans) *Reissue – Back in stock! (12/29)
>> WEDNESDAY – Rat Saw God LP (Dead Oceans) *Ltd. Purple Vinyl – One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock! (12/29)
WHITNEY – Light Upon the Lake LP (Secretly Canadian) *Back in stock! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ (12/29)
RECKLESS RECORDS 12/22/23 NEW RELEASES, REISSUES & RESTOCKS
AGAINST ME – Reinventing Axl Rose LP (Fat Wreck Chords) *2019 Reissue – Back in stock!
WALLY BADAROU – Colors of Silence LP (Be With Records) *Import, Reissue
>> BARKER – Utility LP (Ostgut Ton) *Import
BEHERIT – Oath of Black Blood LP (Nuclear War Now) *180g, Reissue – Back in stock!
JORGE BEN – Sacundin Ben Samba LP (Destination Moon) *Import, Reissue – Clear Vinyl
ART BLAKEY – Orgy in Rhythm LP (Destination Moon) *Import, Reissue – Clear Vinyl
BRAINSTORY – Nobody but You b/w Gift of Life 7″ (Big Crown)
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – Their Satanic Majesties Second Request 2LP (A Recordings) *180g, Import – Back in stock!
WESLEY BRIGHT & THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION – Six Minute Mile 7″ (Palmetto St)
>> VASHTI BUNYAN – Just Another Diamond Day LP (DiCristina) *Reissue – Back in stock!
KATE BUSH – Aerial LP/CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue – Black or Color Vinyl w/ OBI strip
KATE BUSH – Director’s Cut CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue
KATE BUSH – TheDreaming LP/CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue – Color Vinyl w/ OBI strip
KATE BUSH – 50 Words for Snow 2LP/2CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue – Color Vinyl w/ OBI strip
KATE BUSH – Hounds of Love LP/CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue – Black or Color Vinyl w/ OBI strip
KATE BUSH – The Kick Inside CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue
KATE BUSH – Lionheart CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue
KATE BUSH – Never for Ever LP/CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue – Black or Color Vinyl w/ OBI strip
KATE BUSH – The Red Shoes 2LP/CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue
KATE BUSH – Sensual World LP/CD (Fish People) *Import, Reissue – Color Vinyl w/ OBI strip
>> CHAT PILE – God’s Country LP (The Flenser) *Back in stock!
CHAT PILE – Remove Your Skin Please CS (The Flenser)
CHAT PILE – This Dungeon Earth CS (The Flenser)
CARLO MARIA CORDIO – DeComposing 2LP (Ship To Shore)
ANDY CROWN – Why Do I Love You 7″ (Numero Group) *Clear Vinyl ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
LANA DEL REY – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd 2LP (Interscope) *Ltd. Green Vinyl w/ alternate artwork – One of Reckless’ Best of 2023 staff picks back in stock!
CHRISTOPHER DEMARCO – Music from The Toxic Avenger Parts II & III (Soundtrack) LP (Ship To Shore)
DEMONCY – Black Star Gnosis LP (Dark Descent)
EELS – Eels So Good: Essential Eels Vol. 2 2LP (E Works) *Color Vinyl
>> FALL OUT BOY – Folie à Deux 2LP (Island) *Color Vinyl w/ poster – Finally back in stock! ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
FRED AGAIN… – Actual Life 3 LP (Warner) *Back in stock!
>> FUTURE ISLANDS – Singles LP (4AD) *Back in stock!
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG – 5:55 LP (Because) *2023 Edition
GALAXIE 500 – On Fire LP (20/20/20) *2009 Reissue – Back in stock!
GALAXIE 500 – This is Our Music LP (20/20/20) *2009 Reissue – Back in stock!
GALAXIE 500 – Today LP (20/20/20) *2009 Reissue – Back in stock!
Yo LaTengo / Wednesday / Kara Jackson Ratboys / a.s.o. / Laurel Halo Tirzah / Hotline TNT / Feeble Little Horse
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RECKLESS RECORDS STAFF – WICKER PARK, BELMONT, and the LOOP
<< JOLIE THOMPSON >> (Wicker Park)
FAVORITES OF 2023 (in no particular order)
Like..? by Ice Spice Pure, raw talent. She also hung out with Kim Kardash
Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) by Yves Tumor Fun and exciting experimental pop!
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey Y’all may not know butttt…this is my girl. My day one. She gets better and better! This record is insightful, dynamic, and just real. Listen if you haven’t yet!!!
With a Hammer by Yaeji Awesome pop record, cool unique sounds.
Rat Saw God by Wednesday Did I hear someone say they like y’all-ternative…
Everyone’s Crushed by Water From Your Eyes ATTENTION: Chicago/Brooklyn group on Matador!
Super Snooper by Snooper Young punks from Nashville
Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 by Aphex Twin You know what it sounds like…but it’s still awesome!!
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You by Bonnie “Prince” Billy Comfy and cozy with this record, nice for fall and winter I would say!
Javelin by Sufjan Stevens If you know how I feel about Sufjan Stevens you’d know not to ask me a single thing about this record…I would not shut up for at least 10 minutes. That being said, it’s amazing!
Lemon Lights by Seablite Blah blah shoegaze… IT’S GOOD!!!
Tracey Denim by bar italia They’re British AND they put out two really good records this year. Can you believe it?!
Girl With Fish by Feeble Little Horse Adorable Pittsburgh band, awesome Sophomore album. Doesn’t get better
Several Songs About Fire by A. Savage I was so excited for this release and it did NOT disappoint! Fans of Parquet Courts and the like should check it out.
HONORABLE MENTION (we haven’t gotten it in the store yet): Sugar World by Jonatan Leandoer96
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<< PHILIP CERZA >> (Wicker Park)
All That was East is West of Me Now // Glen Hansard // Favorite track: “The Feast of St. John” The Ballad of Darren // Blur // Favorite track: “The Narcissist” Black Rainbows // Corinne Bailey Rae // Favorite track: “Erasure” Bless This Mess // U.S. Girls // Favorite track: “Futures Bet” Careful! // Deeper // Favorite track: “Build a Bridge” Cartwheel // Hotline TNT // Favorite tracks: “Protocol,” “Spot Me 100” Change the Way You Think About Pain // Incendiary // Favorite track: “Echo of Nothing” Cousin // Wilco // Favorite track: “Evicted” Dead Meat // The Tubs // Favorite tracks: “Sniveller,” “Round the Bend” Desolation’s Flower // Ragana // Favorite track: “Pain” Diagnosis // Sen Morimoto // Favorite track: “Pressure on the Pulse” Domino // Diners // Favorite track: “The Power” The Enduring Spirit // Tomb Mold // Favorite track: “Will of Whispers” Hard Light // Drop Nineteens // Favorite track: “Scapa Flow” The Holey Bible // Florry // Favorite track: “From Where You Are” I Inside the Old Year Dying // PJ Harvey // Favorite track: “A Child’s Question, August” Last Day of Sun // Fuming Mouth // Favorite track: “The Silence Beyond Life” Life Under the Gun // Militarie Gun // Favorite tracks: “Do it Faster,” “Never Fucked Up Once” Lucky for You // Bully // Favorite track: “Lose You” No Thank You // Little Simz // Favorite track: “Gorilla” Quaranta // Danny Brown // Favorite track: “Ain’t My Concern” Rat Saw God // Wednesday // Favorite tracks: “Bull Believer,” “Chosen to Deserve” The Record // Boygenius // Favorite tracks: “True Blue,” “Not Strong Enough” Safe to Run // Esther Rose // Favorite track: “Safe to Run” SAVED! // Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter // Favorite track: “ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL” Secret Stratosphere // William Tyler & The Impossible Truth // Favorite track: “We Can’t Go Home Again” This Stupid World // Yo La Tengo // Favorite track: “Fallout” Time Ain’t Accidental // Jess Williamson // Favorite track: “Hunter” Water Made Us // Jamila Woods // Favorite track: “Practice” Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? // Kara Jackson // Favorite tracks: “no fun/ party,” “pawnshop” The Window // Ratboys // Favorite tracks: “The Window,” “Black Earth, WI,” “It’s Alive”
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<< TIM QUINLAN >> (Wicker Park & Belmont)
top 10 in no particular order:
1. red moon in venus by kali uchis 2. the enduring spirit by tomb mold 3. a.s.o. by a.s.o. 4. madres by sofia kourtesis 5. spirits by the circling sun 6. let’s start here by lil yachty 7. call me if you get lost: the estate sale by tyler the creator 8. ooh i rap ya by george clanton 9. a new tomorrow by zulu 10. genesis by peso pluma
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<< LUKE DAHLGREN >> (Belmont)
Here’s my “Best of 2023”. Kept it short n sweet. All stuff that Reckless carried this year…
— NEW MUSIC — @ – Mind Palace Music (Carpark) AKASHA SYSTEM – Phytopia (100% Silk) A.S.O. – a.s.o. (Low Lying) DEAD TIMES – Dead Times (Thrill Jockey) DORISBURG & EFRAIM KENT – Further (Boss Musik) LAUREL HALO – Atlas (Awe) SOFIA KOURTESIS – Madres (Ninja Tune) MARTINOU – Chiral (Nous’klaer) NATURAL WONDER BEAUTY CONCEPT – Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (Mexican Summer) PROTOMARTYR – Formal Growth in the Desert (Domino) PURELINK – Signs (Peak Oil) A. SAVAGE – Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade) MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI – Humid Sun (Telephone Explosion) TIRZAH – trip9love…? (Domino) DANIEL VILLARREAL – Lados B (International Anthem)
— REISSUES & COMPILATIONS — ACETONE – I’m Still Waiting. (New West) JON HASSELL – Further Fictions (Ndeya) HYDROPLANE – Selected Songs 1997-2003 (World of Echo) LUSH – Spooky / Split / Lovelife (4AD) STEVE MONITE – Only You (Soundway) ARTHUR RUSSELL – Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika) PHAROAH SANDERS – Pharoah (Luaka Bop) LORI VAMBE – Space-Time Dreamtime (Strut) v/a – Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition Into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa)
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PJ Harvey / Sufjan Stevens / Tomb Mold
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<< SAM BROWN >> (Wicker Park)
Full Body 2 – infinity signature Halloween – Self Titled Blimp – Egg Feeble Little Horse – Girl With Fish Unrecovery – It’s Agreed, My Willing Test Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity 38KEA – the hawk and the nightingale Bar Italia – Tracey Denim Liv.e – Girl in the Half Pearl Luster – Dopamine Loop Welp! – Welp! Sideshow – JAM Na-kel Smith – FREE POPS FR
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<< DAVE CARTWRIGHT >> (Wicker Park)
OSSUARY – FORSAKEN OFFERINGS LAMP OF MURMUUR – SATURNIAN BLOODSTORM AUFGANG B – AB WERK EP RON MORRELI – HEART STOPPER AUTOPSY – ASHES, ORGANS, BLOOD & CRYPTS BRENDA RAY – D’YA HEAR ME! NAFFI YEARS 1979-83 HARUOMI HOSONO – N.D.E. ULTRADYNE – NATIVIST R.B. – B14 VASTUM – INWARD TO GETHSEMANE L.F.T. – HOLLOW HEAD MORTUARY DRAPE – BLACK MIRROR BAR ITALIA – TRACEY DENIM PORTRAYAL OF GUILT – DEVIL MUSIC
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<< HADLEY HENDRIX >> (Belmont)
1. Laurel Halo – Atlas 2. Ryuichi Sakamoto – 12 3. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World 4. Kate NV – Wow 5. Deerhoof – Miracle-Level 6. Everything but the Girl – Fuse 7. Sparks – The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte 8. Actress – LXXXVIII 9. Pylon – Chomp (repress) 10. Anatomy of a Fall (movie)
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<< JON MASSEY >> (Wicker Park & Belmont)
i think i missed a lot of good music this year but i did find time to listen to some Albums. asterisk means we carry/carried it here at the shop
→ Here are the ones i listened to “A Lot”: *Various – Spirit Cry Flutes and Bamboo Jews Harps from Papua New Guinea (Ideologic Organ) – spent alot of 2023 with bad tinnitus and this was the only music i found soothing at all. Half of the tracks is just dudes going “boing boing boing” on a mouth harp and then the other half is chirruping bamboo flutes. It’s seriously something else. Anyone interested in hearing something they’ve never heard before must cop *The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble…) – “ex Joanna Gruesome” always makes the year end list *Laurel Halo – Atlas (Awe) – i think i would call this “Ambient Plus” *Ratboys – The Window (Topshelf) – “The Gang Makes An Album With Chris Walla” *Various – Canto A Lo Divino (Mississippi) – gorgeous billion string guitar music. Probably all about Jesus but guess what so are Sufjan Stevens albums *Asher White – New Excellent Woman (Ba Da Bing) – kind of elephant six-y textures married to really rich harmonies and lyrics *Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World – Gods favorite band Curling – No Guitar – this band is sick as hell *Hydroplane – Selected Songs 1997-2003 (World Of Echo) – great retrospective from ex-Cat’s Miaow members thats somewhere between clasico indie pop and trip-hop.Thank you World of Echo, very cool! *Erik Hall – Canto Ostinato (Western Vinyl) – this piece by Simeon Ten Holt has been recorded 1,0000 times but this version really takes it all the way into “library-based period drama soundtrack” territory Frog – GROG – Frog’s back
→ Special award for great albums by local bands You Are The Garden – Six Leaf Clover Prathloons – Live Loons: The Bronze 8.4.23 *Ok Cool – Fawn – ive never felt older than when i saw this band live and they covered “A-Punk” Model Living – Alignment Doom Flower – Limestone Ritual (Record Label) Half Gringa – Ancestral Home *Tom Musick – The Many Moods of… – see you at Weegees
→ Here are albums i liked in theory and listened to a couple times and now theyre on this list: // “normal person” category *Subsonic Eye – All Around You (Topshelf, natürlich) – what’s going on in Singapore?? *@ – Mind Palace Music (Carpark) – new innovations in ungoogleability *En Attendant Ana – Principia (Trouble in Mind) *Black Country New Road – Live at Bush Hall (Ninja Tune) – i will NOT put the comma in this band name. do not ever ask me to do that *L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer) *Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings (Ghostly)
// “record store employee” category *Masahiro Takahashi – Humid Sun (Telephone Explosion) *Martinou – Chiral (Nousklaer) – fell off the dance music train in 2023. I will do better next year *American Analog Set – For Forever (Darla) – strips away the gauzy production & showcases the evil side of what many people are calling “Death Cab for people still renting in their 30s” *Mike Cooper – Life & Death in Paradise (Reissue) *Drop Nineteens – Hard Light (Wharf Cat) *Beau Wanzer + Champagne Mirrors – Gub (Sophomore Lounge)
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Tim Hecker / Drop Nineteens / The Tubs
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<< ZACH WAGENFUEHR >> (Belmont)
If I Promise – On Departure (self-released) Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (True Panther) Cicada – Seeking the Sources of Streams (flau) Tim Hecker – No Highs (Kranky) Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf) Lia Kohl – The Ceiling Reposes (American Dreams) Mu tate – They’re With You Always (3XL) Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador) The Necks – Travel (Northern Spy) Flooding – Silhouette Machine (Ghost Is Clear) Purelink – Signs (Peak Oil) Infant – Sigla, Sone (Warm Winters) Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) Euclid C Finder – The Mirror, My Weapon, I Love You (Dark Trail) Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz) Rolin/ Pulice/ Powers – Prism (Cached) Diles Que No Me Maten – Obrigaggi (Come Algo) Sundae Painters – Sundae Painters (Leather Jacket) Hashirat – A Place To Myself (self-released) Asha Sheshadri – Whiplash (Recital) Bar Italia – Tracey Denim (Matador) Sprain – The Lamb as Effigy (The Flenser) Erik Hall/ Simeon ten Holt – Canto Ostinato (Western Vinyl) Great Falls – Objects Without Pain (Neurot) Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, & Shahzad Ismaily – Love in Exile (Verve) Gridlink – Coronet Jupiter (Willowtip) Onewaymirror – Onewaymirror (Zegema Beach) Approaching Mountains – Ley (self-released) herlovebeheadsdaisies – carving initials (self-released) Feeble Little Horse – Girl With Fish (Saddle Creek) Hysterical Love Project – Lashes (Motion Ward) iANO – What Will We See (Dismiss Yourself) Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano (Jagjaguwar) Oldstar – On the Run (Rope Bridge) Martyna Basta – Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering (Warm Winters) Zorn – Zorn (Furo Bungy) Ex Pilots – Ex Pilots (Smoking Room) Voice Actor – Fake Sleep (Stroom) Arthur Russell – Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika) *archival 7038634357 – Neo Seven (Blank Forms) Old Saw – Sewn the Name (Lobby Art) Raphael Roginski – Talan (Instant Classic) The Motifs – I’m the Only One You Love… (Daisart) *archival Gigi Masin/ Rod Modell – Red Hair Girl at Lighthouse Beach (13) Kitchen – Breath Too Long (okwhatever) Masahiro Takahashi – Humid Sun (Telephone Explosion) Alice Phoebe Lou – Shelter (self-released) what is your name? – My Name Is… (5am)
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<< ANDREW MIN >> (Loop)
-replacements – tim (let it bleed edition) –yeah not a new lp but hearing this incredible new mix from ed stasium, it might as well be.
-yeule – softscars –such well crafted, intricately produced and personal music. As catchy as it is great headphone music.
-a.s.o – a.s.o. –if u dig on trip-hop, u dig on this new duo out of berlin.
-hotline tnt – cartwheel –sick guitar driven lp out on third man records. like blown out teenage fanclub. sugary melodies/scuzzed out production.
-caroline polachek – desire, i want to turn into you –scratches my frou frou/imogen heap pop itch. probably the best vocalist in the game.
-bully – lucky for you –her 4th lp might be her best yet. emotional and sooo hooky. the kind of record that makes u immediately check for tour dates.
-pinkpantheress – heaven knows –great debut of bedroom dnb pop tunes. simultaneously feels nostalgic and like the future.
-grian chattan – chaos for the fly –poetic and intimate solo offering from fontaines dc frontman. engaging on a totally different level but just as excellent.
-anohni & the johnsons – my back was a bridge for you to cross –i feel this is her most accessible and moving lp yet which i think is saying a lot! as haunting as it is uplifting.
-vyva melinkolya – unbecoming –best shoegaze release of the year, all enveloping, comforting and heavy.
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<< STEVEN RAHMAN >> (Loop)
In 2023 I found these things worth discussing or recommending to other peoples: –Don’t miss the opening/ support acts. I finally got to see the Smoking Popes featuring one former co-worker (Hi Eli!), & a few bands I hadn’t really heard before, including Teenage Halloween (from New Jersey), who absolutely killed during their set, so much so, I went & bought a shirt. If you like power-pop like Pup, but with a little more Punk influence, you’ll love Teen Ween’s 2023 record Til You Return. –The best beat boxer I’ve ever seen live plays bass for Phum Viphurit. This is probably hyperbole, I’ve seen both Doug E. Fresh & Rahzel, but during Phum’s set at the House of Blues this unassuming but awesome bassist took center stage while Phum & the rest of the band took a break. Pom Tanapon picked up a mic & for 4 or 5 minutes the whole crowd sat transfixed as we saw the worldwide appeal of hip-hop music. It was such a cool little scene, a massive departure from the band’s normal psychedelic, summery, soul-adjacent guitar music, which you can hear on the record Viphurit dropped earlier this year on The Greng Jai Piece. –50 years in Hip Hop keeps growing & expanding. Some of the best rapping I heard all year came fromwomen. Big Boss Vette on Resilience, KenTheMan on Back to 304’n, Chika on Samson, & Flyana Boss on Hello Christ…; all of these sets have incredible performances on the mic. We also got some great “grown man raps” from acts that I really love to hear from: Black Milk dropped Everybody Good, Black Thought teamed up with El Michels Affair for Glorious Game, Oddisee gave us To What End, & Open Mike Eagle’s another triumph… all took approaches that we don’t always get to see in hip hop. We also got some excellent documentation, May the Lord Watch from Rap Portraits & What Had Happened Was season 4 from Stony Island Audio. –This was a pretty good year for R&B & Soul music. I went looking for good R&B this year, & boy howdy did I find it. Victoria Monet with Jaguar II, Jordan Ward with Forward, & Leon Thomas with Electric Dusk. And those are just the 3 I liked best. Each has a different vibe, each has a different approach, but they make you want to move, to feel & sing along. – We were due for a ska revival & I think it’s here! I for one welcome this development. It’s a good time for Bad Times Records who put a tour on with Kill Lincoln, We Are the Union, Catbite, & J. Navarro & the Traitors this year & also released Flying Racoon SuitMoonflower. We also got an ep from Fishbone, & a ripper of a record from ska-adjacent Jeff Rosenstock with Hellmode. There’s a lot of DIY pop music happening out there right now & I’m glad people are still making fun music for fun’s sake. I’m sure I missed something, but that’s what I remember from this year… Cheers!
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Parannoul / Bully / Vanishing Twin
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<< DYLAN SOWLE >> (Belmont)
Hole Dweller – “Crossroads” (Dungeons Deep) Death’s Dynamic Shroud – “After Angel” (Ghost Diamond) Parannoul – “After The Magic” (Topshelf) Oneohtrix Point Never – “Again” (Warp) Bell Witch – “Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate” (Profound Lore) Fucked Up – “One Day” (Merge) Asian Glow & Sonhos Tomam Conta – “Dreamglow” (Longinus Recordings) Oozing Wound – “We Cater To Cowards” (Thrill Jockey) En Attendant Ana – “Principia” (Trouble In Mind) Sadness & Abriction – “Sadness // Abriction” (Canti Erectici Productions) Squid – “O Monolith” (Warp) Time Is Away [Various Artists] – “Searchlight Moonbeam” (Efficient Space) Quest Master – “Sword & Circuitry” (Out Of Season) Caroline Polachek – “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” (Perpetual Novice) Sufjan Stevens – “Javelin” (Asthmatic Kitty) The Armed – “Perfect Saviors” (Sargent House) Mort Garson – “Journey To The Moon & Beyond” (Sacred Bones) Ratboys – “The Window” (Topshelf) Tim Hecker – “No Highs” (Kranky)
Honorable Mention: Miserable People – “Miserable EP” (Rat’s Pizza) [This is my band’s tape and I’m using my year-end list to advertise it to you, dear reader. I do think it’s pretty good though.]
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<< NATHAN BROWN >> (Loop)
Albums I Liked in 2023 (No Particular Order) Maps – Kenny Segal and Billy Woods Am I Good Enough – Jabee 2MM Don’t Just Stand There – Sideshow A.S.O – A.S.O tracey denim – Bar Italia Call Me if You Get Lost: The Estate Sale – Tyler, the Creator Skinemaxxx – Fly Anakin Saturday nights – Carrtoons Swinging Stars – Mapache Ways of Knowing – Navy Blue Voir Dire – Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist Faith is A Rock – MIKE and Wiki Snaxxx – Mndsgn PS: I had the pleasure of working on one of my favorite albums of this year POTE BABY By Devin. It’s a shameless self-promo, but so much of my year was spent with some of my best friends making some music that we are incredibly proud of. Please check it out if you want.
EPs/Singles I Liked this Year (No Particular Order) Flying High – The Alchemist 18 Tons – Smut Scaring the Hoes: DLC Pack – JPEGMAFIA New Heart Designs – Turnstile and BADBADNOTGOOD Crush on You – Madlib I Want More (Telemakus Remixes) – Sons of the James Do you? But it’s only the best part – Marigold Igy – Dj Harrison Human Nature – Saba
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<< ANTHONY ILLARDE >> (Belmont)
THE ACTION Rolled Gold (Guerssen LP) ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI Storie Di Guerra (Holy Basil LP) BUTCHER’S DOG Age Of Inversion (Violent Pest 7″) THE DAMNED Darkadelic (Ear Music LP) MORT GARSON Journey To The Moon And Beyond (Sacred Bones LP) LIFE SENTENCE Demos (Alonas Dream 7″) KURT MICHAELS Stones From The Garden (Melodic Revolution CD) SUPERCHUNK Everything Hurts / Making A Break (Merge 7″) DAVE SWANSON’S MYSTERY AIRSHIP D.S.M.A (Neon Cat CD) VANISHING TWIN Afternoon X (Fire LP)
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<< SPENCER SILLS >> (Belmont)
Sit Down For Dinner– Blonde Redhead This Stupid World– Yo La Tengo Welshpool Frillies– Guided By Voices Everything is alive– Slowdive Black Duck– Black Duck C- Rex (reissue) In Ribbons– Pale Saints (reissue) Gasms– Smokey Robinson Mogwai reissues (namely Young Team, Come On Die Young, and Government Commissions) Happiness– Fridge (reissue)
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<< REY SAFLOR >> (Belmont)
1. LOMA PRIETA – LAST 2. WEDNESDAY – RAT SAW GOD 3. FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE – GIRL WITH FISH 4. FLOODING – SILHOUETTE MACHINE 5. LARRY JUNE & THE ALCHEMIST – THE GREAT ESCAPE 6. THE ARMED – PERFECT SAVIORS 7. PORTRAYAL OF GUILT – DEVIL MUSIC 8. BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL – MAPS 9. ZULU – NEW TOMORROW 10. FIRE-TOOLZ – I AM UPSET BECAUSE I SEE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THERE
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Bar Italia / Slowdive / Niecy Blues
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<< MATT JENCIK >> (Wicker Park)
André 3000 New Blue Sun Ellen Arkbro Sounds While Waiting A.S.O. A.S.O. Meg Baird Furling Björk & Rosalia Oral Black Sun Ensemble Black Sun Ensemble reissue Blonde Redhead Sit Down For Dinner Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge Bar italia Tracey Denim Lucinda Chua Yian Shana Cleveland Manzanita John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy Evenings At the Village Gate Depeche Mode Memento Mori Drop Nineteens Hard Light Enslaved Heimdal FACS Still Life In Decay Laurel Halo Atlas PJ Harvey I Inside the Old Year Dying Horrendous Ontological Mysterium Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer Mag-Amplitude Wizards of Today Midwife & Vyva Melinolya Orbweaving Minor Threat Out of Step Outtakes Mortuary Drape Black Mirror Niecy Blues Exit Simulation Nighttime Keeper Is the Heart Arvo Pärt Tractus Shizuka Heavenly Persona reissue Slowdive Everything Is Alive Stella Kola Stella Kola Tirzah Trip9love…??? Tomb Mold Enduring Spirit The Tubs Dead Meat The Who Who’s Next / Life House: Super Deluxe Edition Worm Gloomlord reissue Neil Young Chrome Dreams Neil Young Somewhere Under the Rainbow
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<< JAMIE DRIER >> (Wicker Park)
A.S.O. – A.S.O. 7038634357 – Neo Seven Tirzah – Trip9love…??? Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano JK Flesh – No Exits Zaumne – Parfum Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings Immediate Proximity – IMPROX 1+2 Hollie Kenniff – We All Have Places That We Miss Suchi – Birdy Bell Ciel – Orlando Tzusing – Invincible East Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Blonde (soundtrack) YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO – To The Forest To Live A Truer Life V/Z – Suouno Assente Hilary Woods – Acts Of Light Niecy Blues – Exit Simulation KMRU – Dissolution Grip Svitlana Nianio – Transilvania Smile, 1994 BCMC – Foreign Smokes Paavoharju – Yon Mustia Kukkia Flora Yin-Wong – Cold Reading Martinou – Chiral Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya – Orbweaving Romance – Fade Into You
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<< LEA BOARD >> (Belmont & The Salt Shed)
In no particular order, just some albums I really liked: Yves Tumor: Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume Skrillex: Quest For Fire JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown: Scaring The Hoes 100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs Magdalena Bay: Mini Mix Vol. 3 Gel: Only Constant Militarie Gun: Life Under The Gun Model/ Actriz: Dogsbody Uniform & Boris: Bright New Disease White Reaper: Asking For A Ride
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<< BEN HEGY >> (Wicker Park & Metric Coffee)
Eddie Chacon- sundown [stones throw] Anna Meike- theatre [nettwerk] Tirzah- trip9love…??? [domino] Roselit Bone- ofrenda [get loud] Slowdive- everything is alive [dead oceans] Blue Lake- sun arcs [tonal union records] Laurel Halo- atlas [awe] Mandy, Indiana- i’ve seen a way [fire talk] Kara Jackson- why does the earth give us people to love? [september] Nourished by Time- erotic probiotic 2 [scenic route] u-ziq- 1977 [balmat] Kelela- raven [warp] Gia Margaret- romantic piano [jagjaguwar]
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FRIENDS OF RECKLESS!
<< ALI BARTHWELL >> (Writer for Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and Vulture)
Beyoncé – Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (IMAX) Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? Kylie Minogue – Tension Janelle Monáe – The Age of Pleasure Olivia Rodrigo – Guts Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense (IMAX) Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! Various Artists – Barbie: The Album Suits: Seasons 1-9 (Netflix)
ALBUMS Dina Ögon Oas (Playground Music) Natural Information Society Since Time Is Gravity (Eremite) Sluice Radial Gate (Ruination) ÆON FLUX boxset (Waxwork) Angel Olsen Forever Means (Jagjaguwar) PJ Harvey I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan) Fielded Plus One (Backwoodz Studioz) Dream Sitch, Michael Nau, Floating Action Long Rattle (Airloom) Rahill Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada) Josiah Steinbrick For Anyone That Knows You (Unseen Worlds) Tirzah trip9love…??? (Domino) V/A Blacklips Bar: Androgyns & Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology) Alice Phoebe Lou Shelter (self) BC Camplight The Last Rotation of Earth (Bella Union) Youth Lagoon Heaven Is A Junkyard (Fat Possum) Spencer Cullum Coin Collection 2 (Full Time Hobby) Feist Multitudes (Polydor) Fantasy Dub & Sofia Bolt “Rendez-vous” Sven Wunder Late Again (Piano Piano) Dim s/t EP (Physical Medium) Mac DeMarco Five Easy Hot Dogs & One Wayne G (MRL) Yo La Tengo This Stupid World (Matador) Peel Dream Magazine Magic Is Pocketed (Slumberland) Grupo Frontera y Bad Bunny “un x100tu” (Rimas) Mapache Swinging Stars (Innovative Leisure) Danava Nothing But Nothing (Tee Pee) V/A All Micro Ambient Music: Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto (Micro Ambient Music) Now And Blue Space Is Burning Noon (Sloth Mate) FURZE “Foresee His Infernal Rites” (self) Conrad Clipper 降雨 / Rainfall (self) 2022 Dick Stusso S.P. (Hardly Art) Daniel Lanois Belladonna (MNRK) Duster Remote Echoes (Numero) Voice Actor Fake Sleep (Stroom) Jonathan Wilson Eat the Worm (self) Niecy Blues Exit Simulation (Kranky) Lou Tides Infinite Loop EP (self) Charles Curtis Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 (Saltern) Purelink Signs (Peak Oil) Chatham Rise “Splinter” (self)
Bruce Adams You’re With Stupid (University of Texas Press) 2022 Book
REISSUES Bowery Electric Beat (Kranky) Michael Hurley Sweetkorn (Mississippi) Manuel Göttsching Inventions For Electric Guitar (MG Art) Tresa Leigh I Remember (Efficient Space) Alain Goraguer La Planéte Sauvage (C.A.M.) Kuku Sebsibe s/t (Little Axe) Julee Cruise Floating Into the Night (Sacred Bones)
SHOWS Mdou Moctar, Brunswick Ballroom Bikini Kill, Golden Plains Festival Crumb, Nine Lives Festival Caroline Rose, The Fonda Sofia Bolt, Gold Diggers The Cure, Hollywood Bowl Amyl & The Sniffers, Rock en Seine The Strokes, Forest Hills Stadium Yeah Yeah Yeahs, All Points East Erin Rae, Tee Gee Kara Jackson, Regency Ballroom Cass McCombs, End of the Road Angel Olsen, Hollywood Forever Project Pat, Zebulon Natural Information Society, Thalia Hall
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Mandy, Indiana / Caroline Polachek / Yves Tumor
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<< MARYA E. GATES >> (Chicago film critic/writer at RogerEbert.com, The Playlist and more)
100 gecs – 10,000 gecs Beach House – Become Blur – The Ballad of Darren Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Iggy Pop – Every Loser Janelle Monáe – The Age of Pleasure Kelela – Raven Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People To Love? Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen A Way Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Neil Young and Crazy Horse – All Roads Lead Home Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Council Skies Olivia Rodrigo – Guts Ryuichi Sakamoto – 12 Sigur Rós – Átta Sufjan Stevens – Javelin Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World Youth Lagoon – Heaven Is A Junkyard
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<< ED HYNDS >> (Matador Direct)
Here are my top picks for ’23: Jonnine – Maritz COBRAH – SUCCUBUS MC Yallah – Yallah Beibe WaqWaq Kingdom – Hot Pot Totto Spivak – You Win Again COUCOU CHLOE – FEVER DREAM Saeko Killy – Morphing Polaroids Fever Ray – Radical Romantics Tirzah – Trip9love The Umlauts – Slags Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice Stinky Jim – Social Awareness – The Remixes Sampha – LAHAI Nervous Gender – Music From Hell (reissue)
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<< ANDY LARSEN >> (Matador Direct)
Suishou No Fune – The wind is spring. There is a rainbow in the sky. Love is hiding in the waves. Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X Wolf Eyes and Model Home – More Difficult S*Glass – Cesspool of the Angels Nakibembe Embaire Group – Nakibembe Embaire Group Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru – Jerusalem Shizuka – Heavenly Persona Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy Ryuichi Sakamoto –12 John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy – Evenings At The Village Gate Sarah Davachi – Long Gradus Les Rallizes Denudes – CITTA’ ‘93 Milford Graves with Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover – Children Of The Forest Reverend Kristin Hayter – Saved! Clara! – Pulso Spiral Dub – Spiral Dub Dorothy Ashby – With Strings Attached Augustus Pablo – Roots, Rockers, & Dub Tyvek – Overground Tozibabe – Discography 1984-1986 Rrose- Please Touch Sonic Youth – Live In Brooklyn 2011
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<< DAVID MARTIN >> (Supporter of Record Stores/ Tour Manager for hire)
NEW RECORDS Thee Retail Simps – Live on Cool Street – Total Punk Cheater Slicks – Ill Fated Cusses – In The Red Divine Horsemen – Bitter End Of A Sweet Night – In The Red Lewsberg – Out And About – 12XU Tyvek – Overground – Ginko Lankum – False Lankum – Rough Trade Facs – Still Life In Decay – Trouble In Mind Sundae Painters – S/T – Leather Jacket Meg Baird – Furling – Drag City Lifeguard – Dressed In Trenches / Crowd Can Talk – Matador Star/Time – Like An Owl Exploding – Means Of Production CIA Debutante – Down Willow – Siltbreeze Barbara Manning – Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow – Ba Da Bing Lower Plenty – No Poets – Bedroom Suck XV – On The Creek Beds On The Thrones – Ginko Rocket 808 – House of Jackpots – 12XU The Native Cats – The Way On Is The Way Off – Chapter Music Famous Mammals – Instant Pop Expressionism Now – Siltbreeze Cindy – Why Not Now? – Mt. St. Mtn. / Tough Love Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection – Petty Bunco Mary Lattimore – Goodbye Hotel Arkada – Ghostly Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips – Fat Possum Natural Information Society – Since Time Is Gravity – Eremite Xylouris White – The Forest In Me – Drag City Son of Dribble – Son Of Dribble Against The Wind – Minimum Table Stacks Sharp Pins – Turtle Rock – Tall Texan Feeling Figures – Migration Magic – Perennial / K Records Fastbacks – Z2 – No Threes Dippers – Clastic Rock – Goner Records Fairytale – Shooting Star – Toxic State Civic – Taken By Force – ATO Records Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Maps – Backwoodz Studios
REISSUES Weak Signal – War & War – 12XU High Rise – III – Black Editions Sonic Youth – Live in Brooklyn – Silver Current Records White Heaven – Strange Bedfellow – Black Editions Gee Gee Decorator- S/T – Coq Au Vinyl INU – Don’t Eat Food – Mesh Key Peter Gutteridge – Pure – Superior Viaduct Graeme Jefferies – I’m Not Listening To Your Station – Cakekitchen Records Tolerance – Divin & Anonym – Mesh Key Peter Jefferies – Closed Circuit – Grapefruit Dream Syndicate – Days of Wine and Roses box – Fire Violin Sect – Vile Insect – Minimum Table Stacks Zyklon B Zombies – Skull – Minimum Table Stacks Francisca Griffin – The Spaces Between – CocoMuse Bettie Serveert – Palomine – Matador Playthings – S/T – Leather Jacket Tyvek – Blunt Instrumentals – Ginko The Sheaves – Excess Death Cult Time – Minimum Table Stacks Da Slyme – If There’s No Rubble, You Haven’t Played – Celluloid Lunch Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner – XL Recordings V/A – If There’s Hell Below – Numero Group My Dad Is Dead – Pow! / Peace Love & Murder – Scat Shizuka – Heavenly Persona / III – Black Editions / Concentric Circles PG Six – Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites – Amish Mag-Amplitude – Wizards Of Today – Zaius Tapes
EPs/SINGLES Blast – Damned Flame b/w Hope – Ancient Grease Married FM – EP – Self Released Body/Head – Come On – Open Mouth / Three Lobed Non-Plus Temps – Dark On Harmon – Self Released CIA Debutante – The Punch b/w The Garden – Digital Regress Thee Retail Simps – Rubble – Goodbye Boozy Rat Nip – My Pillow – Song Book Records Drain Brugs – Elevator b/w Nitghsifth (Mikey Young Remix) – Cannery Records Secretors – Comparing Missile Size Vol. 1 – Roach Leg Fastbacks – A Quiet Night – No Threes
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If you bought music from us or spent any time in our shops this year, we appreciate your support so much. See you in 2024! — Reckless Records
>> BAR ITALIA – Tracey Denim & The Twits LPs (Matador) *Signed by the band before their 12/10 show at the Empyt Bottle! Limited copies available at Wicker Park
THE BEATLES – Now & Then 12″/7″ (Apple) *Back in stock!
MARCUS BELGRAVE – Gemini II LP (P-Vine) *Reissue
BENÉT – Can I Go Again? LP (Bayonet)
THE BLACK CROWES – The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion LP (American) *Remastered – Single LP or 4LP Super Deluxe Edition Box
BLUES LAWYER – Sight Gags on the Radio 7″ (Dark Entries)
BEN BÖHMER – One Last Call 12″ (Ninja Tune) *Extended b/w Alternate Version
BOLDY JAMES & CHANHAYS – Prisoner of Circumstance LP (Next)
MUIREANN BRADLEY – I Kept These Old Blues LP (Tompkin’s Square)
BTS –O!RUL8,2?CD (Big Hit) *Reissue
BTS – 2 COOL 4 SKOOL CD (Big Hit) *Reissue
JIMMY BUFFETT – Christmas Island LP (MCA) *Available on vinyl for the first time
BULLA EN EL BARRIO – Vámonos que nos vamos LP (Fat Beats) *White Vinyl
BUSTA RHYMES – Blockbusta 2LP (Epic) *Now available at all locations
DAVID BYRNE – Live From Austin TX: Austin City Limits 2LP (New West) *Yellow Vinyl
PHIL CAIVANO – Caivano LP (CHUDTUNES) *Debut solo album from MONSTER MAGNET guitarist
BOBBY CALDWELL – Heart of Mine LP (Victor) *Reissue, Import w/ OBI strip
>> CAT POWER – Cat Power Sings Dylan1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert 2LP (Domino) *White Vinyl – Back in stock!
CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE – Christie Front Drive LP (Dark Operative) *25th Anniversary – Silver Vinyl
MARGO CILKER – Valley of Heart’s Delight LP (Fluff & Gravy) *Fall 2023 album now available
ZZ TOP – Eliminator LP (Rhino) *40th Anniversary, Gold Vinyl – Back in stock!
VARIOUS – Ariwa Sounds: The Early Sessions LP (Fat Beats)
VARIOUS – Singles Vol. 2: Blues for a T-Shirt (Soundtrack) 2LP (Mondo) *180g – More music from CAMERON CROWE’s film including PAUL WESTERBERG demos and tracks from CHRIS CORNELL, MUDHONEY, ALICE IN CHAINS & more
VARIOUS – That Thing You Do (Soundtrack) LP (Mondo) *First time available on vinyl – Red Vinyl w/ bonus 7″
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>> BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY – This House is Made of Corners EP (ATO) *Clear Pink Vinyl ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY is a fantastic name for a band. We have to start there, but that’s certainly not the end for this fantastic Chicago group. They’re going to have a bit of a hard time shaking comparisons to THE SMITHS due to the velvety vocal stylings of Wes Leavins & the sort of jangly guitar parts here. It also owes a lot to the guitar rock of the early 2000s with a little bit of ARCTIC MONKEYS & THE STROKES thrown in. Their sounds & influences are quickly recognizable without feeling derivative at all & if you like any of the aforementioned bands, or maybe you’re into ROY ORBISON or CHRIS ISAAK… You should grab this one. RECOMMENDED!
Hard to believe it’s been 10 years of Double Cup. Here’s what we had to say about this great Chicago record back in 2013. We’ve come a long way… “Sadly, this is the final album from Chicago’s DJ RASHAD, who passed away in 2014. But what a final long-player! Double Cup is easily the biggest Footwork album that’s been released thus far. FYI, the name of the Footwork genre is born of a dancing style associated with the music, which evolved from juke. Repetitive, bass-heavy dance music that will appeal to House fans, for sure.” RIP DJ RASHAD! RECOMMENDED!
>> INCENDIARY – Change the Way You Feel About Pain LP (Closed Casket Activities) *Summer 2023 album now available – Color Vinyl
Long Island cult punk heroes INCENDIARY return with (the awesomely titled) Change the Way You Feel About Pain, the long-awaited follow-up to 2017’s killer Thousand Mile Stare. We’re happy to report that this is worth the wait and then some. Bone-crushing riffs and breakdowns pile up relentlessly under Brendan Garrone’s blunt-force vocals, which are often a ringer for Zach De La Rocha and make this a worthwhile pickup for fans of RAGE just as much for the NYHC heads. Every song here is prime heel wrestler entrance theme music – real ones know. This is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> JUDICIARY – Flesh + Blood LP (Closed Casket Activities) *Spring 2023 album now available– Color Vinyl
West TX thrash/hardcore crossover goons JUDICIARY drop another heater on Closed Casket Activities. They push the metallic edge of their music even further here with help from producer ARTHUR RIZK, already a legend in the scene for his work on the classic POWER TRIP albums. Monstrous riffs course through this thing like sandworms while perfectly calibrated breakdowns and masterful shredding bring the violence. THIS RULES. HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> MISERABLE PEOPLE – Miserable EP CS (Rat’s Pizza) ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Chicago’s own MISERABLE PEOPLE deliver their debut EP of 5 fast & angry songs. Clocking in at barely 10 minutes, it’s the feeling of existential dread & hopelessness boiled down to its most immediate & essential. Reckless veteran Dylan Sowle delivers vocals that would fit in nicely on an SST Records comp, with music that straddles the line between thrash punk & post-hardcore. For fans of: RITES OF SPRING, CIRCLE JERKS, the absurdity of human existence. RECOMMENDED!
FIONA APPLE – Extraordinary Machine/ The Idler Wheel…/ Tidal/ When the Pawn LPs (Epic) *Long out-of-print albums now available again on vinyl, sold separately
DEREK BAILEY & PAUL MOTIAN – Duo in Concert LP (Frozen Reeds)
>> RATBOYS – The Window 2LP (Top Shelf) *180g, Splatter Vinyl – Back in stock!✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
RED RED MEAT – Bunny Gets Paid 2LP (Jealous Butcher) *Remastered – Violet & Orange Vinyl✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
MARTIN REV – Sum of Our Wounds: Cassette Recordings 1973-85 LP (Bureau B) *Black or Red Vinyl
JOSH RITTER – So Runs the World Away LP (Plytheas) *Remastered – Ltd. Silver Vinyl
THE ROLLING STONES – Hackney Diamonds LP (Geffen) *Ltd. MLB Edition variants w/ alternate cover art – Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox variants each available, sold separately
RECKLESS RECORDS 11/24/23 & 12/1/23 NEW RELEASES (Call or search on website to check availability on 11/24 titles)
>> DREAM UNENDING & WORM – Starpath LP/CD (20 Buck Spin) *Black or Ltd. Pink & Blue Vinylw/ poster (11/24)
20 Buck Spin cap another banner year for their label with this split release from two of the best bands on their roster. DREAM UNENDING waylay the CURE-isms of the brilliant Song of Salvation for slower tempos and a heavy grunge feel with bluesy leads & extended solos a la 90s Metallica and even Pearl Jam (but with pitch black vocals). On their side, WORM continue sharpening their death metal attack, adding ethereal synths to the mix that amp up the cosmic & otherworldly elements of their music even higher. Whether this is just a one-off (two-off??) or an exciting tease of what’s to come from both bands, doesn’t matter – this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Continuing the Artificial Intelligence Series reissue campaign, Warp reintroduces us to RICHIE HAWTIN’s full length debut, a transcendent ambient techno record that would define a sound of the 90s and chart the path forward for HAWTIN as a force in avant-garde dance music. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> GUIDED BY VOICES – Nowhere to Go but Up LP/CD (GBV Inc.) (11/24)
3rd album of ’23 (and 39th overall!!!) from ROBERT POLLARD’s GBV is his most bracing, immediately accessible pop record since he shacked up with Ric Ocasek for Do the Collapse. Infectious ear worms abound but with less scuzz than usual, exploding out of the speakers in glorious hi-fi that especially suits the crisp guitar tones & bright riffage of Bob’s co-conspirators on this current hot streak, Doug Gillard & Bobby Bare Jr. His lyrics are extra special on this one, too, surreal as ever but also disarmingly candid about time & aging. Bottom line is Bob’s a master & we’re lucky to have this. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
>> FELA KUTI – Fela Vinyl Box Set 6 7LP Box (Knitting Factory) *Box set curated by IDRIS ELBA
Acclaimed actor (and rapper/DJ) Idris Elba curates the sixth FELA KUTI vinyl box set, which features a 24 page book, a poster and notes by Afrobeat historian Chris May. With Open & Close, Music of Many Colors (featuring ROY AYERS), Stalemate, I Go Shout Plenty!!!, Live in Amsterdam (2LP), and Opposite People… This set, like any FELA set, comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
LA duo MONDE UFO makes lo-fi loungy psychedelia that dips its toes into free jazz, drone and ambient music. Originally released in 2021, this version of 7171 comes with a bonus 7″ of their Four Songs EP which reimagines early FUGAZI tracks. RECOMMENDED!
DAVE EVANS – Elephantasia LP (Earth) *Reissue (11/24)
FATHER JOHN MISTY – Real Love Baby 7″ (Sub Pop) *Single-sided w/ etching (11/24)
FKA TWIGS – M3LL155X LP (XL) *Back in stock! (11/24)
FLYCATCHER – Stunt LP (Memory Music) *Blue Vinyl
ROBBEN FORD – Night in the City LP (Edel) *180g
FU MANCHU – FU30 Vol. I-III LP (At The Dojo) *Grey Vinyl (11/24)
FUCKED UP – Generation 7″ (Get Better) *Reissue
FUCKED UP – Huge New Her b/w I Don’t Want to Look 7″ (Get Better)
FUCKED UP – Litany 12″ (Get Better) *Reissue
FUCKED UP – One Day b/w The Void I Left 7″ (Get Better)
FULL OF HELL & NOTHING – When No Birds Sang CD (Closed Casket) *LPs coming next week…
PETER GABRIEL – I/O LP/CD (Real World) *2LP “Bright-Side Mix” w/ pink OBI, 2LP “Dark-Side Mix” w/ blue OBI, 2CD both mixes w/ orange OBI, or 2CD both mixes w/ blu-ray & green OBI
>> GOLD DIME – No More Blue Skies LP (No Gold)
MURIEL GROSSMANN – Devotion 2LP (Third Man) *Black or Ltd. Color Vinyl
THE JIMMY GIUFFRE 3 – Music for People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes LP (Candid) *180g, Remastered
HAAI – DJ-Kicks 2LP (K7)
LEE HAZLEWOOD – 13 2LP (Light In The Attic) *Deluxe Edition w/ bonus tracks (11/24)
LEE HAZLEWOOD – Cowboy in Sweden 2LP (Light In The Attic) *Deluxe Edition w/ bonus tracks (11/24)
>> LEE HAZLEWOOD – The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides 1968-71 2LP (Light In The Attic) *Finally back in stock! (11/24)
ROD WAVE – Ghetto Gospel LP (Alamo) *2019 album available on vinyl for the first time
ROD WAVE – Pray 4 Love LP (Alamo) *2020 album available on vinyl for the first time
LUCINDA WILLIAMS – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road LP (Mercury) *Reissue – Indie Exclusive Yellow Vinyl
AMY WINEHOUSE – Frank 2LP (Island) *Ltd. Pink Vinyl – Back in stock!
FLORA YIN WONG – Cold Reading LP (Modern Love) (11/24)
>> WORM – Bluenothing LP (20 Buck Spin) *Black Vinyl – Back in stock! (11/24)
YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Mosquito LP (Interscope) *Back in stock!
YO LA TENGO – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 2LP (Bandbox) *Reissue – Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl (11/24)
DWIGHT YOAKAM – Live From Austin, TX: Austin City Limits 2LP (New West) *Blue Vinyl
THE YULETIME LIFTERS – Time for Love b/w Instrumental 7″ (Daptone) (11/24)
VARIOUS – Call Me By Your Name (Soundtrack) 2LP (Music On Vinyl) *180g, Reissue – Purple Vinyl w/ rainbow laminate sleeve (11/24)
VARIOUS – Christmas Dreamers: Yuletide Country 1960-1972 LP (Numero Group) *Santa Suit Red Vinyl – Back in stock!
>> VARIOUS – Doing it in Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria 3LP (Soundway) *2019 repress w/ bonus 7″ – Back in stock! (11/24)
VARIOUS – Istanbul 70 Vol. I-VI: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits by Baris K 2LP (Nublu)
>> VARIOUS – Pacific Breeze 2LP (Light In The Attic) *Black or “Beach Umbrella Edition” Color Vinyl – Back in stock! (11/24)
VARIOUS – Pacific Breeze 2 2LP (Light In The Attic) *Color Vinyl – Back in stock! (11/24)
>> VARIOUS – Pacific Breeze 3 LP (Light In The Attic) *Now in stock on Seafoam Green Vinyl! Pink Vinyl also back in stock! (11/24)
VARIOUS – Phil Spector Christmas Album LP (Dol) *Import, Reissue – Gold Vinyl (11/24)
VARIOUS – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana 2LP (Numero Group) *Black or Ltd. Blue Swirl Vinyl
VARIOUS – Spectra Ex Machina: Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 LP (Sub Rosa) (11/24)
VARIOUS – The Warriors (Soundtrack) 2LP (Waxwork) 180g, Remastered – w/ insert (11/24)
VARIOUS – Yellowjackets: Season 2 (Soundtrack) 2LP (Universal) *Featuring new music from ALANIS MORISSETTE and JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL plus tracks from NIRVANA, GARBAGE, THE CRANBERRIES, SPARKS and more
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