Expert Work Records

01/10/2024

Back in stock on our bandcamp and limited run pages. These are in perfect condition and are only $3. Grab one!!!

Thanks to and Eric Kmiec for the hook up.

01/05/2024

Two new singles from the Expert Work camp.

“Talking Tall” by from their upcoming record, “The Unbearable Tightness of Being”. Out February 2nd.

“Motion To Quash” from Twenty One Trillion. New record out March 15th.

Both streaming everywhere. Pre-orders via link in bio.

12/30/2023

This is what we did in 2023. Big thanks to for co-releasing stuff with me and design help. Big thanks to and many others for trusting me these releases. It’s not easy, it’s not always fun, but it’s important to me that this stuff is heard and not lost forever. I hope to keep it going in 2024.

12/24/2023

Tons of amazing reissues came out this year. These were my favorites. I’ve made a playlist of all of these as well for your convenience.

Reissues
1. Abiliene- End Burial
2. Antarctica- 81:03
3. Braid- Frame and Canvas
4. Breaker Morant- 1996-1999
5. C-Clamp- Dream Backwards
6. Charlie Brown Gets A Valentine-Dismissed
7. Chisel- Set You Free
8. Cleons Down- 1995-1997
9. Corm- Audio Flame Kit
10. De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising
11. Enon- Believo!
12. Everyone Asked About You- Paper Airplanes, Paper Hearts
13. Fiddlehead- The Chicago Reels (The Deaf Waiter)
14. Grain- We’ll Hide Away 1993-1995
15. Grandaddy- Sunday: Excess Baggage/The Cassette Demos
16. He**in- Discography
17. Hum- Electra 200
18. Hum- You’d Prefer An Astronaut
19. Hum- Downward is Heavenward
20. Hum- Inlet
21. The Jesus Lizard- Blue
22. Lync- These Are Not Fall Colors
23. Lynx- Lynx
24. Native Nod- This Can’t Exist
25. Nuzzle- No Love Like That: Stanford Sessions 1997
26. The Paperchase- Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know
27. Pinback- Some Offcell Voices
28. The Replacements- Tim: Let It Bleed Edition
29. Shotmaker- A moment In Time- 1993-1996
30. Vine- Forever

12/24/2023

I enjoyed these records that came out this year. I’ve made a Spotify playlist of all of these if you feel like checking any of these out.

Best of 2023
1. A.S.O - S/t
2. Ativin- Austere
3. Axis Sova- Blinded By Oblivion
4. Chat Pile/Nerver- Brothers In Christ
5. Coliseum- Infinity S**t
6. Cougars- COUGS
7. Deathchant- Thrones
8. Deerhoof- Miracle-Level
9. Duster- Remote Echoes
10. Exit Angles- A sickness and A Fire
11. Explosions In The Sky- End
12. FACS- Still Life In Decay
13. Fotocrime- Accelerated
14. Jaye Jayle- Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down
15. Jeromes Dream- The Gray In Between
16. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard- Petro Dragonic Apocalypse
17. Lifeguard-Crowd Can Talk/Dressed In Trenches
18. Protomartyr- Formal Growth In The Desert
19. DJ Shadow- Action Adventure
20. Slowdive- Everything Is Alive
21. Stuck-Freak Frequency
22. Sunwatchers- Music Is Victory Over Time
23. Terms- All Becomes Indistinct
24. Total Wife- in/out
25. The Van Pelt- Artisans and Merchants

12/24/2023

I’ve been revisiting thee entire catalog over the last few days with the recent reissues.

Here is my question, how do you rank their albums? Harder than you think. I’m curious what order you would put them in.

For me:
1. You’d Prefer An Astronaut
2. Electra 2000
3. Inlet
4. Downward is Heavenward
5.Fillet Show

12/20/2023

March 2024. Stay tuned.

12/12/2023

The record we put out this year made the list for best noise rock records of 2024

We currently have them for sale on our bandcamp page for $10 until the end of the year. Link in bio and it’s streaming everywhere.

12/06/2023

is such a massively underrated band in my opinion. One I rarely hear people talk about and I’m not sure why. They tick all the boxes, yet it seems like they get lost in the shuffle. Not to be confused with the other Fiddlehead.

recently reissued their “Deaf Waiter” 10” and got it remixed and remastered and then pressed it on a beautiful 12” with all new artwork. It sounds amazing honestly. Originally recorded in 1994 by Steve Albini.

Seriously seek this out if you have never heard it. It’s streaming on all the platforms.

12/02/2023

live in St. Louis at the Sinkhole. Glad I finally was able to see them.

11/25/2023

We still have our sale going on. Enter code:SHOPSMALL when you buy anything off of our bandcamp page and get 20% off.

Link in bio. Or go to expertworkrecords.bandcamp.com

11/21/2023

Nice write from .noise about the upcoming records we are putting out.

Link in bio to pre-order the records.

Also all this week get 20% off of your purchase on our bandcamp page. This includes the pre-order for the Sweetheart records. Enter code: SHOPSMALL at check out.

11/19/2023

Thanks for all your support this year and in the past. As a thank you we are having a sale on bandcamp.

Simply enter the code: SHOPSMALL at checkout and get 20% off your order. This is good until 11/26/23

Buy as much or as little as you want.
Link in bio. Or expertworkrecords.bandcamp.com

11/15/2023

Some words from on Sweetheart

11/15/2023

Some nice words from our friends on the upcoming Sweetheart records.

11/14/2023

Welcome Sweetheart to our little label.

First single steaming now on bandcamp (link in bio). Streaming everywhere else tomorrow.

Pre-order links for the LP and EP are up (link in bio). As well as a bunch of other merch options.

Lots more on Sweetheart to come. Stay tuned.

11/06/2023

My old band practiced in this house for a few years. We did a pretty cool photo shoot in the living room for a calendar that Insound.com put out. A few months ago a huge tree fell on the roof, and well…. I’m pretty sure this thing is gonna get plowed. End of an era. Another house we practiced at (about 2 blocks away) was torn down awhile back to make room for a brewery’s expansion. Sad to see these old houses go, lots of good memories and plenty of jams written in them.

11/04/2023

10/29/2023

Shirts! We now have some T-shirts by a few of the bands on our little label. I have a bunch printed bur I’m also kind of making/printing these to order. So feel free to grab one, it just might take me a week or so to ship them out. Available on bandcamp. Link in bio.

10/28/2023

The 20th Anniversary edition on glow in the dark vinyl. No worries I have an OG copy too.

10/27/2023

Work in progress. 21 Trillion mixes coming along nicely.

10/25/2023

Couldn’t make it to 2023? Well the entire set is now up on YouTube. Link in stories to watch the whole damn thing. Then go buy a freaking record.

10/16/2023

Hey hey hey!!!! This awesome festival is this weekend. If you live in Texas you should probably go check it out. If you don’t live in Texas try to make it. All the details over

will be playing on Saturday, be sure to check them out and grab a copy of their excellent new record “COUGS” that we put out earlier this year. It’s a total banger.

10/06/2023

It’s another
Nothing new over here, BUT we are getting pretty low on a few releases. So act fast if you want one.

-8 copies of Corm left
-4 copies of In Medias Res left
-less than 100 of Cougars left
And so on…..

Grab something and help us pay for some upcoming releases. Thanks!

10/02/2023

Only 10 copies left!

Grab one while you can. Link it bio.

Endless thanks to for helping me with this one. And to and for their blessings on re-issuing it.

And of course to and Rob Anthony for letting us do it and making an incredible record.

09/28/2023

Some unreleased Gila Bend songs now available DIGITALLY through our bandcamp page. You can also grab a copy of their s/t 7” while you’re at it.

09/28/2023

Available now!!! Through us via bandcamp or limited run.

Dead stock of the Gila Bend 7". Housed in a oversized, handmade, screen printed cardboard sleeve.

Originally released by Liberty Park Recordings in 1995.
The band members recently found a box of these and have shared them with Expert Work. Get a cool piece of Chicago emo history.

Gila Bend formed in Downers Grove, IL in late1993 under the name Double Odd Buck.
Double Odd Buck was vocalist Robert Glen Fogarty (ex. Ivy League, Sleepy Bear, and Smug), guitarist Mike Hanyzewski (ex: Black Bear), bassist Eric Kmiec (ex: Trigwater), and drummer Tim Albert.
As Double Odd Buck, the band recorded a 4 song cassette for Liberty Park Recordings and played shows through 1994.
In December of 1994, due to the exit of Fogarty and a house fire that destroyed almost all of the band's equipment, Hanyzewski, Kmiec, and Albert formed Gila Bend with bassist / songwriter Basil Shadid. Kmiec switched to guitar.
The new band spent the first few months of 1995 writing new songs and went into Experimental Sound Studios with engineer / producer Jacob Ross on April 15th and 16th of that year to record several songs, four of which would be released. The instrumental "Smile" (Hanyzewski) and the songs "Keep Your Head Up" and "A Falling Star" (Shadid) would be released as a self-titled 7 inch record and "My Dream Locomotive" (Shadid) would be released on the "Emo Schmeemo" 7 inch compilation. Both records would be released on Liberty Park Recordings.

09/14/2023

Attention European friends.

Our releases can be purchased through

09/13/2023

What I found in Halifax and Dartmouth. Not bad.