Dinosaur Jr., The Scientists, Velocity Girl, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Jah Thomas and Smashing Pumpkins.
Quite a few riffs on reissue this week, with two jazz essentials and some real nice dub too!
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Gene Clark - No Other
Originally released in September 1974, No Other is an absolutely extraordinary album of Country-steeped rock and roll balladeering from The Byrds founding member, Gene Clark. An LP of huge innovation...
Pom Poko, Hakushi Hasegawa, Damian Dalla Torre, Blind Pilot and Ray LaMontagne.
From breakneck pace to languorous lushness, there is much on offer this week.
A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Pharoah Sanders, Sandy Harless, Zero Boys and Super Djata Band & Zani Diabaté.
Maybe it’s the light, but this week’s collection of essential new-not-new really has put us in a particularly good mood…
Women - Public Strain
Public Strain is the second album from the short-lived, but hugely important Canadian rock band, Women. A dark and alluring album of addictive and weaving neurosis.
OSEES, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Louis Cole, Thee Marloes, keiyaA and Belong.
A short set of new releases for your Friday deliberations, but each one is a total cracker!
The Radio Dept, Drop Nineteens, Charles Brown, Bobby Hutcherson, Lee Morgan and Suzanne Ciani.
Dream pop, shoegaze, Queer country rock, shades of Jazz and synthesiser meditations. I mean, it’s all very us.
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
Hugely revered and an absolute all time essential, but one that still gets asked about whenever we spin it. So, this is the Histoire de Melody Nelson.
Personal Trainer, J.R.C.G., Brigitte Calls Me Baby, The Reds, Pinks & Purples and A Dancefloor in Ndola.
Hot stuff coming through, plus plenty of other routes in less sunny music…
Fontaines D.C. Listening Parties
To celebrate the release of the band’s all-new ROMANCE LP, we will be hosting a listening party at Drift on Thursday 15th August for an exclusive first play.
Talking Heads, Skip James, Modesto Duran, Sleaford Mods, White Noise and Beastie Boys.
A big week with stuff that we have loved for decades and other bits that we didn't know; but will be loving for decades!
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
An absolutely seminal album in hip hop culture and more broadly in protest music, Long Island rap group Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back...
