Family owned and operated, Drift Records is the award-winning independent record shop in Totnes, Devon.
We proudly stock new and newly reissued music across a wide range of genres, focusing on contemporary music that excites us; jazz, post-punk, house, techno, country, ambient, psychedelia, rap, funk, rock, noise, experimental and pretty much anything else. Come and see us, find out what we're into at the moment, we hope that you’ll find it to be a great place to spend some time.
“Drift, is mind-bogglingly great: the kind of place that you’d think was amazing if you found it in New York.
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“Hugely respected by anyone who knows record shops and massively important to their native Devon.
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“The displays of current staff favorites are refreshed on an almost-fanatical basis. Row upon row of expertly selected discs and long-sold-out collector’s items.
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Drift won the Best Independent Record Store award at the 2024 AIM Awards. ✨
Drift was nominated as Best Independent Retailer at the Music Week Awards in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
In 2018, we co-founded Dinked Edition. A collective of like-minded, independent record shops from all over the UK working together to promote music we love through limited vinyl releases.
Alongside general shop business, we produce a newspaper called Deluxe, entirely focused on record shops, the people that run them and the people who shop there. You can read back issues and features on the Deluxe website.