‘No music on a dead planet’ – Music Declares Emergency sum up the reason we’re thinking a lot about the impact Reckless Yes has on the environment and looking for ways to be greener in what we do, and what we make, as well as putting some of the label’s profit toward environmental action. In January … [Read more…]
The debut EP from Captain Handsome, I Am Not An Animal, is released digitally and on limited edition CD today. The solo project of Lily Rae, also of Fightmilk, takes influence from Mitski, Dolly Parton, and Kirsty MacColl to form a collection of intimate and introspective sad pop bangers. Premiering first single I Wish I … [Read more…]
Massive congratulations to LIINES, who took home the Breakthrough Act award, at the MEN CityLife Awards earlier this week. The Manchester-based post-punk band has had an amazing 18 months – a sold out release of their debut album Stop-Start, supporting Sleaford Mods on UK tour, finalists in Glastonbury Emerging, and live dates and festival appearances … [Read more…]
Reckless Yes are teaming up with Gringo Records to give the second album from Glasgow trio Order of the Toad a full release across vinyl, CD and digital in 2020. Quite unlike anything else around Order of the Toad sit somewhere between Baroque and Psyche, with touches of Country and Pop thrown in too. It … [Read more…]
The third single from Eilis Frawley, ‘intellectual men’, is set for digital release on 17 January ahead of debut EP Never Too Emotional on 7 February 2020. Following on from brilliantly received singles ‘illusions’ and ‘strangers’ Berlin-based Eilis Frawley is returning with third single ‘intellectual men’. The track which first drew attention from the likes … [Read more…]
Disco-punks Bugeye are teasing their debut album with the release of new single Don’t Stop, via independent label Reckless Yes on 28 February 2020. A first single from Bugeye for Reckless Yes Ferocious in their DIY spirit and having drawn comparisons to Sleater-Kinney, been described as a mash-up of Blondie and Pixies, this is disco-meets-Riot … [Read more…]
The second single from Captain Handsome, Halloween, is out today on all digital platforms. It lands ahead of debut EP I Am Not An Animal which is set for release digitally and on limited edition CD on 31 January 2020. The unseasonably titled Halloween is, in Captain Handsome’s own words, “part ode to Goth Christmas … [Read more…]
The second single from Eilis Frawley, strangers, is released digitally everywhere today via Reckless Yes. Find strangers on all digital platforms here. Taken from EP Never Too Emotional which is due for release in early 2020 the track blends rhythms with samples and spoken word vocals while lyrically the vulnerability of relationships is addressed. Premiering the … [Read more…]
The debut collection from enigmatic artist Peace Tape is out now as a co-release between Reckless Yes and Komponist. Across the 17 minutes of ‘Abstract Works’ both electronic and acoustic methods are manipulated to create an unsettling, unfamiliar, otherworldly sonic landscape for listeners to journey through. The pieces vary from melodic ambience to bursts of … [Read more…]
Everyone else is doing it so we thought, why not, let’s have a sale. And here we are – with up to 60% off selected records for a limited time. Bonus – they’ll ship and get to you in time for Christmas so if you’re gifting them (self-gifting definitely counts) they’ll be with you for … [Read more…]
