Never meet your heroes, unless they happen to be brilliant people.
This past weekend, our very good friends at Caught by the River invited us to open the Drift rolling shop with them at the Port Eliot Festival in mythical St Germans....
Coming Soon; Soft Walls. Get Hyped now.
The story goes like this. Dan Reeves runs the Faux Discx label. We've talked about them on our websites often. He also plays in the band Cold Pumas; those two things...
Have a browse, it's Woman's Hour
Woman’s Hour are not your average band. The first clue comes in the name of the London-based four-piece, taken from a beloved female-focused news and culture show on BBC Radio...
Live instore; Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor
Tuesday 29th July at 7pm, The Drift Record Shop invite you to a special live in store from Devon Folklore Tapes. Live music, films, records and drinks.Theo Brown and the...
Olga Bell; Record shop curator
Over at the Curator section of the site, we were stoked this week to have Olga Bell pick us eight albums from our racks thats she's into. Damn good choices they...
Jess Rotter working up Country Funk II
Continuing our infatuation with all things Country Funk, here is a picture we really liked from Jess Rotter's instagram feed. She is responsible for the killer artwork for both volumes of...
Country Funk II, a new set of loose-talking, lap steel-twanging tracks.
Back in the mid summer of 2012, the most onomatopoeically titled album you could ever get hold of dropped into our life. Country Funk featured rare cuts by Bob Darin, Gray Fox,...
Two new servings of Numero's Eccentric Soul
If you've stopped past recently you'll have seen (and heard) that we've gone deep on Numero. We've been particularly feeling the Eccentric Soul series, each edition turns up countless soul gems.Today...
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Drift Sunday Classic: The Velvet Underground - Loaded
You could argue that Loaded isn’t necessarily The Velvet Underground’s “best album.” It is, however, one of the finest albums of all time.
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Drift Recommends
Staff curated and updated weekly, this is all the new things and all the old things that have been getting loads of plays at Drift.
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Record of the Month: Gustaf - Package Pt. 2
Sharp, wry and really pounding, Package Pt. 2 is the second studio set from Brooklyn no-wave / post-punks, Gustaf.
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2023 Records of the Year
We are delighted to release the 27th edition of our Deluxe Newspaper, a trip back through the Records of the Year in 2023.
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Drift Sunday Classic: Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Released in September 1970, Curtis is the eponymous solo debut from Curtis Mayfield, an album soothing soul and biting social commentary.
