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2020 Records of the Year

Albums, compilations, reissues and books from a year united in adversity. For your consideration, one hundred albums (plus choice reissues, books and compilations) released between January and late October of this year that we have loved playing. Hope you do too.

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2020 Records of the Year

Ambient

Some call it environmental music; Erik Satie called it furniture music (our favourite); but Brian Eno called it Ambient, and that's what stuck. Includes new age; drone; minimal electronic; and the softer side of experimental.

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Ambient, Minimal and New Age

These are the albums that have shifted moods and created new worlds. Slowly evolving music using synthesisers, field recordings, layered voices and ancient instruments. Concentrate intently or just let it all wash over you, a set of transcendental listening experiences new and old.

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Ambient, Minimal and New Age

Balladeers

Hard-learned life lessons from the cult-troubadours and long-roaming raconteurs. Tales of darkness and light with songs about all the vices. It's not a Country thing, it's just singing it like it is with a knowing gleam in the eye.

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Balladeers

Beat Based Electronic

Broadly, anything with a beat. Some fast, some slow, but all Electronic music that brings up big human emotions with textures from house, techno, synth and experimental. Here are hand selected electronic records at Drift with a propulsive drive through beeps and clicks.

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Beat Based Electronic

Beautiful Voices

A beautiful voice can express so much more than a smart lyric ever will, these are singers of collective experience and shared emotions. Above all else, these are heartbreaking or spirit raising vocals that swoon.

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Beautiful Voices

Books & Magazines

We love stocking books and magazines, they feel very much part of the same culture as the records we rack. Most of the books are about music, some aren't.

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Books & Magazines

Connor

Listens to the extreme via the extreme in a full circle to include literally everything in between. Hammers the discount, pictures to prove it.

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Connor

Dinked Editions

Dinked is a collective of like-minded, independent record shops from all over the UK. Available exclusively at Drift.

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Dinked Editions

Fizzing Pop Production

Shimmering, space-age, high concept and awe-inspiring pop music from the sharpest minds around. Production to dazzle, where you can't even tell what they are playing or how they are doing it... But you're definitely moving! It can sound glacial or it can sound saturated, never under estimate the smartness. 

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Fizzing Pop Production

Garage Rock Stompers

Wailing guitars, pounding drums, fuzzing distortion and driving energy; our favourite sides of Rock and roll euphoria! From modern antipodean psychedelics, to the dirging ferocity of these shores and the sun baked Californians. The (current) best Garage Rock Stompers from all around the world.

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Garage Rock Stompers

Goods Outlet

Lifestyle pieces that adorned Drift HQ in days gone by. Fine coffee, excellent Stationery and beautiful homeware. Snag a Drift artefact with 10% off all outlet items! 

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Goods Outlet

HNY24

The HNY24 sale has now finished, thanks for your orders. Join the mailing list to be the first to hear about the next one!

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Indie Record Shop Exclusives

Drift is proudly an independent record shop and many of the releases we stock have limited independent record shop editions. Coloured vinyl, extra tracks, deluxe packaging and bonus stuff. Don't sleep on them, they are always limited quantities.

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Indie Record Shop Exclusives

Jazz reissues

With the massive resurgence of interest in Jazz over the last ten years (Makaya McCraven, Kamasi Washington, Nubya Garcia, The Comet is Coming, Sons of Kemet, Ezra Collective...) it remains a total joy to see so many iconic and seminal albums from 75+ years of Jazz recording lovingly repressed by iconic labels like Blue Note, Impulse! and Decca.

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Jazz reissues

Jenny M

Jenny has been behind the counter since selling records was renting VHS videos. Has painted every inch of the shop at least twice now. Met Bagpuss.

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Jenny M

Lee

Artist of Drift's cartoon mascot Buddy the Cat, plus Metronomy tea towels & comics. Shop windows too. Provider of LEE'S FACTS. Always after something good to draw pictures to. Bring me your gossip. See my art here

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Lee

Long Lost Gems

Just because the recordings aren't new, it doesn't mean that they don't sound new! We're always looking backwards and discovering pure gold in the archives. Below, some of our recent favourite reissues to include anything from the iconic to the long lost. If you like this, we send out an email every Monday with the week's "Best New Reissues".

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Long Lost Gems

Merch & Gifts

Drift vibrations on tees, sweats, totes and more. Seasonal tones and our favourite prints, wear them and think of us. All our clothing uses the best quality garments, they are built to last and made to feel premium.

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Merch & Gifts

PAX

For the last decade, PAX have been refining the technology in their vaporisers to create - head and shoulders - the best experience available on the market.

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Post-punk and Art rock

Dark, heavy and bleak, but not without humour. Social commentary, dissatisfaction, kicking against the apathy (or the pricks) and taking us on a trip to get there. Ranting and screaming guitar based music that layers to euphoria. We are not alone.

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Post-punk and Art rock

Pre Order Releases

Available to pre order now at Drift. Check each title for its release date and shop early for a pre order discounted price.

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Pre Order Releases

Records of the Year / April 2023

Coming into bloom with floating landscapes, spectacular art-pop, pastoral lushness and fuzzed-out emotions. Record Store Day is dead.

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Records of the Year / April 2023

Records of the Year / August 2023

Staying hot and wistful with Country soothers from the Prince alongside some jacked-up synths, garage rock gnarlers, flashes of euphoria and seductive vocals.

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Records of the Year / August 2023

Records of the Year / Best New Reissues 2023

It has been another year where we’ve taken huge gratification in looking backwards at all time classics, anniversary editions, long lost gems and obscure favourites, the best new reissues that are all “new-not-new”.

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Records of the Year / Best New Reissues 2023

Records of the Year / February 2023

Shaking the dark nights away with the year’s most enduring hues, guitar jangles, hard metal, high-gloss pop and a sense of joyous release.

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Records of the Year / February 2023

Records of the Year / January 2023

Rumbling into the new year and the mid-winter with stark post punk, oozing metal, analogue amps, dense psychedelia and mesmerising hooks.

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Records of the Year / January 2023

Records of the Year / July 2023

Beach days and big summer pop energy, beautiful voices, moody electronic washes, a tirade of riffs and the most epic returns.

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Records of the Year / July 2023

Records of the Year / June 2023

Those first summer nights with country-tinged scorchers, Zamrock, bubbling pop dreams, full-throated freakouts and an exotic take on Middle Eastern spaghetti Western.

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Records of the Year / June 2023

Records of the Year / March 2023

Spring sprung with beautiful voices, folk traditionalists, Turkish blazers, knotty rhythms, new age soul soothers and the darkest goth pop.

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Records of the Year / March 2023

Records of the Year / May 2023

Bringing it all back home with early summer bangers, tropical pop, industrial landscapes and ambient meditations. What a month it was.

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Records of the Year / May 2023

Records of the Year / November 2023

Taking stock with firebrand new shoegaze, rousing vocals, brain-blastin’ smashers, experimental techno and well-boiled endorphins.

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Records of the Year / November 2023

Records of the Year / October 2023

Shorter nights for new soul sounds, heartbreaking whispers, minute textures, vintage balladeering and otherworldly wails.

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Records of the Year / October 2023

Records of the Year / September 2023

A goliath of a month with complex and knotty layers, dream pop icons, nocturnal jazz, rock belters, transcendental headspaces and soul voices.

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Records of the Year / September 2023

Rupert

Music is higher culture, maybe the highest culture? I get a rush from Jazz drummers. I also get a rush from bleeping synths. I also get a rush from crunching distortion. I really just love getting a rush. I'm not terribly positive about Record Store Day.

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Rupert

Sale

New releases, previous Record Store Day releases, the odd box set, warehouse finds and plenty more. Adding more daily so keep clicking, but when they're gone... They're gone!

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Sale

Sarah

Always and forever interested in a beautiful singing voice and uplifting beats. Sarah also really likes it when people send a remittance advice.

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Sarah

The Loud And Quiet Collection

For the last fifteen years, Loud And Quiet have printed a magazine under the ever forward driving sprint that "independent music and journalism is worth protecting". They are our people. Their below recommendations will be replaced by 12 fresh releases each month, each time offering a 10% discount to Loud And Quiet Members. Become a member here.

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The Loud And Quiet Collection

World Music

 

Starting with the newest titles, bellow is all the World Music that we currently have in stock at Drift. You can view the full list of everything we've had in recently here and get in touch if you're after anything in particular.

Accepting it is the crudest genre imaginable (Sorry) - World Music at Drift is predominantly Afro Rock & Jazz, South American Beats, The Balkans and Latin Soul & Jazz.

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