Best New Reissues: Lou Reed, East Village, McCoy Tyner, Ramsey Lewis, The Triffids and The Stokes.
101% all killer and no filler; starting and ending in NYC.
Mort Garson - Mother Earth’s Plantasia
Synthesizer odes to Philodendrons, Pothos, Spathiphyllums, Begonias and the Spider Plant.
Records of the Week: Folly Group, Bill Ryder-Jones, Marika Hackman, The Vaccines and Royel Otis.
Hello and a big welcome to the first new set of releases for 2024. Down There! Is the full debut from London-based four-piece Folly Group and it’s exactly what we...
Record of the Month: Bill Ryder-Jones - lechyd Da
We’re starting 2024 off with an absolute peach. January’s Record of the Month is lechyd Da from Bill Ryder-Jones, absolutely one of our most wonderful voices.
2024; What we know and what we think we know...
Big wheel keep on turnin’, Drift recs keep on burnin’. 2023 is just hours in the rear view mirror and we’re already going to turn our collective attentions to what...
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.
Records of the Week: Dean Wareham, Eels, Mac Demarco, Sleaford Mods, The Miles Davis All Stars and Wes Montgomery.
As the year slowly starts to wind down, today we’re talking about both the new and the new-not-new with a smart set of records for your considerations.
Best New Reissues: Cymande, Fiona Apple, Big Thief, C-Clamp, Melvin Jackson, Bill Evans and boygenius.
The sublime Cymande, the divine Fiona Apple, early Big Thief, Midwestern emo and tons of jazz essentials.
Steve Reid Ensemble - Spirit Walk
A sweeping live set from the Steve Reid Ensemble with electronic augmentations from Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden.
Records of the Week: James Elkington, Michael Nau, Car Seat Headrest and LAUNCH300.
Finger-picked bliss, lo-fi soul soothers and a set of absolute pounders via Rocket.
Best New Reissues: Earth, Public Enemy, Mccoy Tyner, Grant Green, Chet Baker and Los Campesinos!
Monolithic doom riffs, pounding rap rhetorics, decades of jazz exploration, crackling acid and the best emos.
Bobby Darin - Commitment
In one of our most favourite ever career left-turns, the chart-topping, multimillion-selling, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter decamped to Big Sur and returned with an album of counterculture Country-belters.
Discover slightly longer reads with an anthology of our favourite ‘Sunday Classic’ albums.
NOVEMBER
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Our November Record of the Month is Nobody Loves You More, the first full-length album from cult musician and legit cultural icon, Kim Deal.
FEATURE
The La’s - The La’s
One of the best eponymous albums ever. One of the finest debut albums ever. One of the most genuinely timeless albums ever.
SEPTEMBER
Kit Sebastian - New Internationale
The sound of early Autumn 2024 is very much the swirling and evocative combination of Anatolian rock and vintage global grooves…
FEATURE
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The iconic second LP from A Tribe Called Quest. An absolute classic of murky beats, hazy samples and bubbling lyrical flows.