Big wheel keep on turnin’, Drift recs keep on burnin’
2023 is just hours in the rear view mirror and we’re already going to turn our collective attentions to what 2024 has in store for us. We broadly know what the next couple of months look like (excellent, it is excellent), but there will be some more announcements shortly and we’re hearing some really wild things about the Spring and Summer already.
Released in January 2024
New music from; Bill Ryder-Jones, Gruff Rhys, Danny Brown, Folly Group, MINING, Tapir!, Ty Segall, The Smile, The Vaccines, Marika Hackman, Lou Reed, Sleater-Kinney, Nailah Hunter, Ultrasonic Grand Prix (Little Barrie & Shawn Lee), SLIFT, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Torres, His Lordship, Katy Kirby and Andre 3000.
Reissues include; Fela Kuti, Karate, 90 Day Men, Stornoway, Saint Etienne, Bud Powell, Nuggets, John Coltrane, Bill Evans Trio and Hiroshi Yoshimura.
Released in February 2024
New music from; IDLES, Nadine Shah, Grandaddy, Omni, William Doyle, MGMT, Future Islands, Yard Act, Revival Season, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Laetitia Sadier, Real Estate, Itasca, Bingo Fury, Earl Sweatshirt & Alchemist, The Last Dinner Party, Ducks Ltd., Plantoid, The Chisel, J Mascis, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Brittany Howard, Helado Negro, Chelsea Wolfe, HEALTH, El Perro del Mar, John Bramwell, Laura Jane Grace, Levitation Room, Molly Lewis, Les Amazones d'Afrique and Katherine Priddy.
Reissues include; Suede, The American Analog Set, Austin Peralta, Sonic Youth, Scott Fagan, Yusef Lateef and Neil Young.
Released in March 2024
New music from; Bolis Pupul, Serpentwithfeet, Chastity Belt, Ed Harcourt, High Llamas, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, Meatbodies, Charles Moothart, Horsebeach, Francis Of Delirium, The Staves, Halo Maud, Gossip, USA Nails, Odetta Hartman and Logic1000.
Browse all of these and hundreds more in the Pre Order section.
What we think is coming in 2024...
In addition to the broadly confirmed release schedules above, the following is a list of things that we either slightly know about or have been heavily implied online via artist/label. In 2024, you can very much expect; Adrianne Lenker, Amen Dunes, Bored at My Grandmas House, Charli XCX, Chris Cohen, Chubby And The Gang, clipping., Cloud Nothings, Deftones, DIIV, Empress Of, Father John Misty, FKA twigs, Fontaines DC / Massive Attack / Young Fathers, Frank Ocean, JPEGMAFIA, Julia Holter, Justice, Kim Gordon, LCD Soundsystem, METZ, Michael Stipe, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Party Dozen, Perfume Genius, Phosphorescent, Pissed Jeans, Ride, Run The Jewels, Shabaka, Shellac, The Cure, The Lemonheads, The Shins, The Softies, The Strokes, The Weather Station, The xx, Thurston Moore Group, Vampire Weekend, Waxahatchee, Wet Leg and Yasmin Williams.
We’ll also do our annual shout out to that forthcoming My Bloody Valentine LP, you know it’s gonna drop one day and you just know it’ll be worth the wait too!
Lastly, and based only on little bits we’ve read over the last few weeks, that recent Joanna Newsom song has to appear on something at some point right? If you want it enough, just manifest it yeah!
So here’s to 2024!