Reckless Records end of year lists – Reckless Records London

Reckless Records end of year lists

by Charles Taylor

Here are what we've all enjoyed this year, some new, some not so new!

Alan

Top Ten 7"s I bought in 2020

1) Iron Maiden - Prowler (EMI Japan 1980)
2) John Carpenter -  Theme From "Halloween" (Columbia Japan 1979)
3) Ennio Morricone - Metti, Una Sera A Cena (Cinevox 1969)
4) The Times - Red With Purple Flashes (Static Shock 2020)
5) The Executives - Moving In A Circle (Festival 1968)
6) Third Ear Band - Fleance (Harvest Japan 1972)
7) The Dicks - Hate The Police (1-2-3-4-Go! 2020)
8) Al Green  - Love Ritual (Kickin' 2018)
9) Brenda Holloway - Can't Hold The Feeling Back (Deptford Northern Soul Club 2020)
10) Brute Force - King Of Fuh (Ace 2020)

 

Ben

10 albums I enjoyed...



1) Brigid Mae Power - Head Above The Water (LP)

2) Ana Roxanne - Because Of A Flower (LP)

3) Fleet Foxes - Shore (LP)

4) Laura Groves - Private Road (EP)

5) Jorge Elbrecht - Pierced By The Ice (EP)

6) The Left Outsides - Are You Sure I Was There? (LP)

7) Sault - Untitled (Rise) (LP)

8) Helena Deland- Someone New (LP)

9) Chubby & The Gang - Speed Kills (LP)

10) Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud (LP)

plus some singles, LP tracks etc...

Cass McCombs- The Wine Of Lebanon (Bandcamp download)

Jane Birkin - Ta Sentinelle (LP track)

Oneohtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone (LP track)

Andy Bell - Love Comes In Waves (LP track)

Phoebe Bridgers- Kyoto (LP track)

Chris Cohen - Physical Address (Bandcamp download)

Blake Mills- Vanishing Twin (LP track)

Damien Jurado - Birds Tricked Into The Trees (LP track)

Gunn-Truscinski Duo- Ocean City (LP track)

Lemon Twigs - The One (LP track)

 

Charles

1) Robbie Basho – Songs of the Great Mystery

2) Grateful Dead - Dave’s Picks 31 [Chicago 1979]

3) Bob Dylan – Rough & Rowdy Ways

4) Mary Halvorson – Artlessly Falling

5) Ready Or Not [Thom Bell comp]

6) Thumbscrew – The Anthony Braxton Project

7) Stephen Riley – Friday the 13th

8) Howard Riley – Complete Short Stories

9) Can’t Stop The Dread [Sonia Pottinger comp]

10) Yabby You – Walls of Jerusalem

 

Chris

Always: 

1) Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra

2) James Bernard - Atmospherics

3) Klute - F.P.O.P.

 

Late night sessions: 

1) Endless Reggae 45s

2) Paradox New Statement

3) Any Trouble - Trouble With Love

4) The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

5) Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head

 

Lockdown brought out a lot of nostalgia

1) Smashing Pumpkins

2) Pete Rock

3) Husker Du

4) Skate Punk

5) Life Of Agony

6) Deftones "Digital Bath"

7) Kool G Rap

8) Excruciating Terror

9) The Lemonheads

10) Bad Brains

 

Titles I bought in 2020

1) Bridge - Crying For Love

2) Brute Force - Nobody Knows

3) Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening

4) Ennio Morricone - Morricone Segreto

5) P-Vine and Tone Poet reissues

6) The Bees - I Love You

7) Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

8) Sully - Swandive (can't wait for the 12!)

9) The Microphones - In 2020

10) The Gerogerigegege - (decrescendo)

11) The Times - Red With Purple Flashes

12) Sansibar - Targeted Individuals

13) Muslimgauze - Return Of Black September

14) Triston Palmer - Time So Hard

15) Paradise Lost - Icon

16) Jackie Mittoo - Oboe

17) Endless amazing releases from Static Shock and La Vida Es Un Mus

 

Duncan

This year has been a dead loss for me for listening to new releases. 

  • Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways is the only thing I've played lots. 
  • King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band play Latin / African semi-psychedelic stuff and dress up for gigs like a Samba second-line street band.  
  • Mostly I listen to old stuff. Richard Thompson, Danny Gatton,  Lucinda Williams, Grateful Dead, old dead jazzers, old folkies, but I don't have any specific things to recommend.

    I don't like Spotify, it sounds crap.

Kris

1) Vivien Goldman - Private Armies

2) Roachee - All Day Long

3) Riechman - Wunderbar

4) The Beta Band - First LP

5) The Kraken - Side Effects

6) The Rings - I Wanna Be Free

7) The Jermz - Powercut

8) Tony McPhee - The Hunt

9) Keith Hudson - Pick A Dub

 

Scott


1) Mike Huckaby - Dance - Deep Transportation

2) Mike Huckaby - All By Myself - Deep Transportation

3) Mike Huckaby - Radiance - Deep Transportation

4) Mike Huckaby - Flashback 78’ - Deep Transportation

5) Roland King - Container 49 - M3

6) Norm Talley - Change (Mike Huckaby Remix) - Third Ear

7) Vladislav Delay - Recovery Idea (Mike Huckaby SYNTH Remix - Semantica

8) Mike Huckaby - Jazz Delirium - Cross Sections

9) Mike Huckaby - Tresor Track - Tresor

10) Mike Huckaby - Baseline 89 - SYNTH

Tom

1) Milk - Bricks 7" (Hysteria / AZ)

2) Muro - Pacificar LP (Adult Crash)

3) All Hits - Men and Their Work LP (Iron Lung)

4) Sweeping Promises - Hunger For A Way Out LP (Feel It)

5) The Annihilated - Demo (Self Released)

6) P22 - Human Snake 12" EP (PPM)

7) Kobra - Confusione LP (Iron Lung)

8) Arson - Savage Butchery Demo (Self Released)

9) V/A - Shellshock Rock CD/DVD Box Set (Cherry Red)

10) Misanthropic Minds - Welcome To The Homeland 7" (Sewercide)

Toru

1) The Isley Brothers - All

2) Tonehall - All

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