From the spiritually soothing to the Cocaine addled, a fine set to dive into from this week’s best new reissues.

Step on Step is an absolutely fantastic set of rare home recordings from the late Chicago producer, arranger, musician and composer Charles Stepney.

Much revered, his orchestral arrangements feature on works by Minnie Riperton, Howlin Wolf, Terry Callier, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rotary Connection and many more, earning him the reputation moniker of “baroque soul”. Released on the International Anthem Recording Co. label, this debut LP features 23 bare-bones, demo-style home recordings, most of which are Stepney originals that were never again recorded by him or any other artist. The click of the drum machine is super evocative and there is such a lush squelch to this. Really highly recommended.

+ Available on limited double Gold colour vinyl.

To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, The Heads Under Sided receives a really luxurious pressing this week. Heavy and psychedelic, there is more than a touch of the space rock about this beast that benefits greatly from a fresh ‘22 remaster. Includes Peel Session and demo tracks on the 4LP box set and 2CD editions.



If you don’t know that you’re into the Reverend Horton Heat yet; good news, you’re about to discover that you’re really into the Reverend Horton Heat! Sub Pop have repressed three absolutely scorching slabs of psychobilly this week, with limited colour vinyl pressings of his 90s classics; Smoke 'em if You Got 'em, The Full Custom Gospel Sounds Of… and Liquor In The Front. They don’t call him the godfather for nothing, this is pure, white-hot, breakneck speed and essential for any reprobate’s record collection. Bales of cocaine falling like the pouring rain!

One that we’re absolutely delighted about this week via LA’s incredible Leaving Records; with Arushi Jain’s beautiful 2021 album Under The Lilac Sky getting a physical pressing on these shores. Modular synth minimalism meets traditional Indian classical music, this really floats above the noise, folks. Wonderful sounds and tones, this is a proper experience.

Andorra, one of Dan Snaith’s many breakout albums as Caribou, turned 15 years old last month and City Slang have celebrated with a limited Anniversary Edition pressing on White colour vinyl. It is an album of amazing moments, but few albums lock you in with such incredible energy as the early seconds of the album opener Melody Day. A legit, all-time classic, this.

Matador’s Revisionist History series (see Pavement and Yo La Tengo as you’ll recall) continues with Spoon’s rocking forth LP, Kill The Moonlight. To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, it receives its first ever colour edition with a bright White pressing.

It’s a Daft Punk triple this week on the duo’s own Daft Life label with the scorching live album Alive 2007, the remix collection Daft Club (featuring The Neptunes, Basement Jaxx and Gonzales) and their third studio album, Human After All.



Lastly, a duo (Stephen Black and Paul Jones) we adore; Group Listening’s Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2 receiving a pressing on limited Milky Clear Vinyl on PRAH. Still get chills thinking about when they visited us at Sea Change a little while back.

Neatly enough (We do plan these…) Stephen’s Sweet Baboo are going to come and play live for us next year, tickets have just gone on sale!

- Drift