Retail Drugs will release their new LP Factory Reset, on December 5th via Angel Tapes/Fire Talk, ahead of it’s arrival, they have shared lead single/video, “Anti-Lonely.” Factory Reset follows the b-sides and demos collection rECKless dRIVing released earlier this summer, and comes a little more than a year after the band’s underground debut album i love you so !. Retail Drugs is the project of New York City artist Jake Brooks.

Factory Reset was engineered and mixed by Brooks himself, and was written and recorded in sequential order, with each track responding to the one before it. Lead single “Anti-Lonely” is the first full track to appear on the album, and — in Brooks’ words — “was the catalyst for Factory Reset.” The track bursts into existence with distorted bass and percussion lines, propelled by Brooks’ avant-punk screeches, whispers, and cries. “I was just getting home from my day job, and I was pissed off for some reason,” Brooks says of the track’s creation. “‘Anti-Lonely’ focuses on how it’s hard to follow online trends. The internet is an angel that at the end, rips my vocal chords out of my throat, taking my voice away.”

“Anti-Lonely” is presented alongside a video filmed by longtime Retail Drugs collaborators Josiah and David Martuscello, and edited by Josiah Martuscello. The “Anti-Lonely” music video is a deep-fried reflection on timeline addiction, burnout and contemporary habits.

Retail Drugs
Factory Reset
Tracklist
Fire Talk Records

1. Welcome To Factory Reset
2. Anti-Lonely
3. Is The Money Right?
4. Tru Luv
5. Outside
6. Black Tie
7. Knifetime
8. He Hears Us (Reprise)
9. Factory Reset Feels So Good!
10. Everybody Knows
11. Demon Town
12. Rhinebeck
13. ‘Gansett
14. Yeah! I’m Dancing
15. Factory Reset Got Me Down

Retail Drugs 2025 Tour Dates

Thu. Nov. 13 – Hamden, CT @ Best Video *
Fri. Nov. 14 – Boston, MA @ Pasta Planet *
Sat. Nov. 15 – New York, NY @ Berlin Under A *
Sun. Nov. 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Rug Club *
Mon. Nov. 17 – Albany, NY @ Tummy Rub Records *
Sat. Dec. 13 – New York, NY @ Alphaville [ALBUM RELEASE SHOW]

* w/ Herr God

Pre-order Factory Reset by Retail Drugs HERE