100% the biggest new set of releases yet! All new and banger after banger!
Hello, Friends.
Georgia rock-n-roll-soul band Algiers return this week on Matador with Shook, their fourth full-length LP and a striking statement in mixing together genres, styles, politics and culture. With an all-star cast of guest contributors - Rage Against The Machine’s Zack De La Rocha, Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews, Big Rube, billy woods, Backxwash, Samuel T. Herring of Future Islands, Lee Bains and more - there is a huge sense of propulsion, but more than that, it all sounds very much like the same band with the bit between their teeth. Intense, vivid and absolutely stacked with ideas from its first moments to its last. Record of the Week.
+ Available on Indie Exclusive double Gold colour vinyl.
Without totally shaking off the dark and brooding energy of their first albums, shame return with a hugely expansive new LP called Food For Worms. Although still full of aggression and vitriol, the biggest victory here is the duality of an audience-broadening Phoebe Bridgers guest appearance and some of their most stripped-back production to date. It feels real in equal direction and points very much at an album that will grow and change each time you listen to it.
+ Available on exclusive Blue and Yellow colour vinyl.
+ Available on Transparent Purple colour vinyl.
Featuring Thundercat, Beck, Adeleye Omotayo, Tame Impala and Bootie Brown, Bad Bunny and even Stevie Nicks, Cracker Island is the boundless new set from Gorillaz. Full of light and energy, this one is going to slowly bubble away and explode to life in the summer months, you watch!
+ Available on Indie Exclusive Neon Purple colour vinyl.
I Play My Bass Loud is the debut solo LP from absolute icon Gina Birch, founding member of OG post-punk rock band, The Raincoats. Released on Third Man Records, thematically it is centred on the ‘voice’ of the bass guitar, but really it’s entirely about Gina’s wonderful voice and style in playing it. Sonically it is dense, with every idea in the mix woven together with grit and drive. Really good.
+ Available on exclusive Clear colour vinyl.
Pop-experimentalist Meg Remy returns with Bless This Mess, her eagerly awaited eighth LP as U.S Girls. The production is fantastic, her voice just sounds amazing which is an interesting aside as apparently the album was tracked with her twin babies in utero! Not sure if they get a credit, but Meg’s voice really does sound great and she leads this confident set from the front with a tightly wound euphoria. Great stuff.
+ Available on Indie Exclusive Red colour vinyl.
+ Whilst stocks last, we’ll include a sick pin badges.
Big sounds from the Glasgow underground! We were absolutely delighted to work with Lost Map Records to bring you an exclusive Dinked Edition of Inside, the new LP from Free Love (FKA Happy Meals). A really lush melting pot of electric tones and acoustic flourishes, different languages and different tones. Without ever losing focus of where they are going, this is a proper trip.
+ Available as Dinked Edition 229; “Blood Red Embryo” vinyl, includes a riso-print on 225gsm paper and is hand-stamped, signed & numbered /400.
The Soft Struggles is the first solo LP (under his own name) from the mercurial David Brewis of Field Music. He is one of the most consistently inventive music makers around, so it comes as very little surprise that this one is a thriller, but quite how has us in delights. He still performs the signature musical gymnastics, but there is the most luxurious energy to the album, a sort of British take on Laurel Canyon. It really is a lush album and we’ve been going in a few times already this week.
Principia is the jangling new LP from French rock band En Attendant Ana. It has to be said, we’ve really fallen for this one. Knotty guitars that loop and weave with such a breezy delivery, it is all killer… But, when isn’t it when on Trouble In Mind?
+ Available on limited Peach colour vinyl.
Magnolia is another of this week’s subtle gems, an album of Jazz/Soul energy from Okonski on the excellent Colemine Records label. It really is a vibe, we highly recommend looking into this one.
+ Available on Indie Exclusive Cream Swirl colour vinyl.
Still so much for your considerations folks….
Bristol-based DAMEFRISØR release a gothy and driving EP called Island of Light that we’re really into. Travel is comprised of four exquisite long-form improvisations from iconic Australian trio The Necks. Follow the Cyborg is the debut album from Korean-American musician and Mute’s newest signing Miss Grit. Rotten Bun for Eggless Century is a really exciting, hypnotic and very wonky set of pop songs from mui zyu. Strange Dance is the beautiful and sonically rich third solo LP from Philip Selway (of Radiohead) with contributions from Hannah Peel, Adrian Utley, Quinta, Marta Salogni, Valentina Magaletti and Laura Moody. Afterpoem is the mysterious and smudgy new LP from the Brooklyn-based composer and synth supremo Faten Kanaan.
We also have a couple of soundtracks to put under your… ears! Firstly, Gruff Rhys’ beautiful and rousing original songs and instrumental score for The Almond & The Seahorse. Really swooping stuff with contributions from the National of Orchestra Wales. It’s a really beautiful package too; foil numbered with a fold out film poster and pressed onto double limited edition yellow colour vinyl.
Enys Men is the new folk horror film by BAFTA-Award winning director Mark Jenkin, who also directed the dark, weird and wonderful score! Dark and haunting stuff with dialogue from the film weaved in between lo-fi drones. Another lush edition, this one is pressed on red vinyl and includes a double sided printed insert.
We’re absolutely delighted to have Bill Callahan’s utterly wonderful YTI⅃AƎЯ album in stock on vinyl after a right old wait. That is going right on the turntable!
Lastly today, Live at Worship is a live EP from Ty Segall & Emmett Kelly, a spontaneous acoustic show at a Highland Park clothing boutique. Recorded one sunny night in July 2022 just as the Hello, Hi album (our 2022 Record of the Year!) was about to drop. Really great stuff and we’re delighted to have a few more copies for the shop as this sold out hard and fast on announcement.
Don’t miss out, it’s the perfect accompaniment to Hello, Hi!
- Drift