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Reckless Records New Releases 2/26/2013

Not a huge list this week, but we’ve got plenty of great new stuff as always! New albums from Atoms for Peace, Acteurs (members of Disappears and White/Light), Deathfix (with Brendan Canty of Fugazi), Johnny Marr and Ill Bill. Reissues from Witch, Quicksand, Search Party and Vera Sienra. Plus a new 7″ from Chicago’s own Heavy Times, the Czarface album (Inspectah Deck, 7L & Esoteric) and some hot-as-the-sun restocks! See you soon!

NEW
Abominable Putridity – In the End of Human Existence (CD)
Acteurs – S/T (LP – Brian of Disappears & Jeremy of White/Light)
Atoms for Peace – Amok (CD/LP – there are deluxe versions of both formats. No extra music on the deluxe versions, just limited packaging. Limited vinyl is supposedly already out of print!)
Barreracudas – 7th Time Around (7″ – part of Windian Records’ subscription series)
Beachniks – In Color (LP)
Boduf Songs – Burnt (CD/LP)
Botanist – IV: Mandragora (CD)
BOY – Mutual Friends (LP)
Cankun – Culture of Pink (LP)
Deathfix – S/T (CD/LP)
Kevin Drumm – Tannenbaum (CD)
Fall of Saigon – Untitled (12″ – reissue of a 1983 post-punk EP from UK band Fall of Saigon)
Grave Babies – Crusher (CD/LP)
Heavy Times – K-7 (7″ – part of Windian Records’ subscription series)
Jimi Hendrix – Somewhere b/w Power of Soul (7″)
Ill Bill – The Grimy Awards (CD/DVD)
Inspectah Deck, 7L & Esoteric – Czarface (limited CD w/ pop-up or 2xLP w/ poster and no pop-up, sadly)
Peter King – African Dialects (CD/LP)
Los Vidrios Quebrados – Fictions (CD – reissue)
Clint Mansell – Stoker (CD)
Johnny Marr – The Messenger (CD/LP)
Masta Killa – Selling My Soul (LP – clear vinyl)
Maston – Shadows (CD)
Misfits – Dead Alive! (CD)
Mount Moriah – Miracle Temple (CD/LP)
Nobunny – Love Visions (LP reissue)
Nuclear Assault – Atomic Waste (CD/LP – official demos & rehearsals collection)
Popstrangers – Antipodes (CD/LP)
Elvis Presley – A Date With Elvis (LP – 180g reissue)
Prurient/Nico Vascellari – Jesus (2xLP – intense live split inspired by GG ALLIN & KLAUS KINSKI.)
Quicksand – Slip (LP 180g, 20th anniversary reissue)
Quicksand – Manic Compression (LP – 180g, 20th anniversary reissue)
Saaad – Orbs & Channels (cassette)
Ulrich Schnauss – A Long Way to Fall (LP)
Search Party – Montgomery Chapel (2xCD – reissue)
Seravince – Hear to See (CD – new from Vincent Helbers AKA Flowriders)
Shout Out Louds – Optica (CD/LP)
V/A – Mystic Soundz of Africa (LP)
V/A – Soul Spectrum 1 (CD/LP)
Vera Sienra – Nuestra Soledad (CD – reissue)
Warm Climate – Glass Singer (LP)
Witch – Introduction (LP – Now Again is releasing the individual Witch albums outside of the amazing box set they released in 2012. This is the first album . . .)
Witch – In the Past (LP – reissue . . . and this is the second one with more to come!)

SWEET-ASS RESTOCKS
Atmosphere – Overcast! (12″)
Nick Drake – Pink Moon (LP – reissue, duh)
King Khan & BBQ Show – S/T (2xLP)
Nobunny – Love Visions (LP – reissued on Almost Ready Records)
Pete Rock – Petestrumentals (2xLP)
The Spits – 19 Million AC (LP)
The Spits – First S/T Album (LP)
The Spits – Third Album (LP)
Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania (2xLP)
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II (LP)
Total Control – Henge Beat (LP)
M. Ward – Transfiguration of Vincent (LP – back in print after being OOP since 2009)

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Reckless Records New Releases 2/19/2013

WHOA. This is a crazy week for new releases, so let’s get to some highlights! New albums from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Iceage, Suffocation, Matmos, Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Flea, the Swingin’ Utters, Psychic Ills and Portal. Reissues from the Durutti Column, Cryptopsy, Syl Johnson and Jesus & Mary Chain. Plus the first taste of the collabo between Madlib, Med & Blu, the Bongripper/Hate split LP, a new 7″ from Ill Bill, a reissue of the first Jungle Rot album/demo, vinyl for Oh No’s Disrupted Ads and a split 7″ between Cass McCombs & White Magic. Plus a bunch of other awesome stuff, natch. See you soon!

Jesse Abraham – I Am Water (CD)
Archon – Ouroboros Collapsing (CD)
Atlas Genius – When it was Now (CD)
Beach Fossils – Clash the Truth (CD, LP or super limited LP with silk-screened sleeve & poster)
Black Boned Angel – The End (3×7″)
Black Sunroof! – 4 Black Suns & a Sinister Rainbow (2xCD)
Black Twig Pickers – Rough Carpenters (CD/LP)
Blu, Med & Madlib – The Burgundy (12″ – first glimpse at the upcoming full-length collabo between these three)
Bongripper/Hate – Split (LP)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away (CD, super-limited 2xCD or LP w/ bonus 7″)
Cryptopsy – None So Vile (CD – reissue)
Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh (CD – reissue)
Datsuns – Death Rattle Boogie (2xLP)
Dismember – Where Ironcrosses Grow (CD – 2004 release back in print)
Dobie – We Will Not Harm You (CD/2xLP)
Doldrums – Lesser Evil (CD/LP)
Julie Dorion & the Wooden Stars – S/T (LP – reissue)
Durutti Column – Return of the Durutti Column (CD – reissue)
Durutti Column – LC (CD – reissue)
Eat Skull – III (LP)
Eight Bells – The Captain’s Daughter (CD)
English Boogie – Long Island (CD/2xLP)
Euphoric Defilement – Ascending to the Worms (CD)
Flea – Helen Burns (CD/LP)
Flume – S/T (CD)
Dan Friel – Total Folklore (CD/LP)
Jerry Garcia Band – Garcialive Vol. 1: Capitol Theater (3xCD)
Garbage & the Flowers – Eyes Rind As If Beggars (LP/CD)
Godflesh – Hymns (2xCD – reissue)
Guided By Voices – Flunky Minnows (7″)
Hadez – Guerreros De La Muerte (3xLP boxset)
Howling Hex – Best of Howling Hex (CD/LP)
Iceage – You’re Nothing (CD/LP w/ Iceage flag while supplies last)
Iceage – Ecstasy (7″- limited)
Ill Bill – When I Die b/w When I Die (PETE ROCK remix) (7″ – grey vinyl)
Inc. – No World (CD/LP)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (B-Sides & More) (LP – reissue)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Sound of Speed (LP – reissue)
Syl Johnson – Dresses Too Short (LP – reissue on Numero/Twinight)
Syl Johnson – Is It Because I’m Black? (LP – reissue on Numero/Twinight)
Jungle Rot – Skin the Living (CD – reissue of this Midwest death metal classic)
Kiki Pau – Pines (LP – green vinyl)
Mark Kozelek – Live at Phoenix Public House Melbourne (CD)
Mark Kozelek – Like Rats (CD)
Las Robertas – Dissected Affair (7″)
Leech – Tusks (12″)
Left For Dead – Devoid of Everything (LP)
Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t (7″)
Jamie Lidell – S/T (CD/2xLP)
Lust for Youth – Chasing the Light (12″)
Matmos – The Marriage of True Minds (CD/2xLP)
Maximillion Dunbar – House of Woo (CD/LP)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – What the Brothers Sand (CD/LP/cassette)
Cass McCombs/White Magic – Split (7″)
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Akosua b/w In My Heart (7″ –
Hair Police – Mercurial Rites LP
Mello Music 7″ series)
Mudhoney – Story of Mudhoney (DVD)
MV & EE – Fuzzweed (LP w/ CD)
Night Marchers – Allez Allez (LP, now on vinyl!)
Jeffrey Novak – Baron in the Trees (LP)
Obnox – Smoke Woody Haze (12″)
Oh No – Disrupted Ads (2xLP – w/ flexi & etched D-side)
Omar S. – several FXHE titles!
Oxes/Microkingdom – Split (7″ – featuring WILL OLDHAM & SAM HERRING from FUTURE ISLANDS)
Portal – Vexovoid (CD)
Psycho – You Love Us You Hate Us (LP – reissue)
Psychic Ills – One Track Mind (CD/LP)
Pussy – Plays (LP reissue of this psych monster!)
Raven Black Night – Barbarian Winter (CD)
The Relatives – The Electric Word (LP)
Martin Rev – S/T (LP – reissue)
Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry (LP – 180g domestic reissue)
Sadistik – Flowers for my Father (CD)
Shai Hulud – Reach Beyond the Sun (CD/LP)
Shockwave Riderz – S/T (12″)
Shockwave Riderz – 4-song tape (cassette)
The Sound – All Fall Down (CD/LP – reissue)
Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam (regular or deluxe CD – vinyl out in April)
Swingin’ Utters – Poorly Formed (CD/LP)
Swingin’ Utters/Modern Action – Split (7″)
Thergothon – Stream from the Heavens (LP – reissue, doom metal classic!)
Tsjuder – Desert Northern Hell (CD/DVD – reissue)
Voigt & Voigt – Die Zauberhafte Welt Der Anderen CD
Volunteers Park – S/T (7″)
Weekend Nachos – Watch You Suffer (7″)
Wingdale Community Singers – Night, Sleep, Death (LP)
V/A – Disco Love 3 (2xCD/2xLP)
V/A – Latin Noir (CD)
V/A – Son Of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (CD – crazy compilation with exclusive tracks from Keith Richards, Tom Waits, Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and somehow Frank Zappa)

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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)