Family owned and operated, Drift Records is the award-winning independent record shop in Totnes, Devon.
Drift has been a firm fixture of the Totnes High Street amongst a great community of local and independent retailers since the mid-nineties, also selling records & goods online since early 2010 too. We have seen the fall and the rise through millions of albums; we have been doing this for ages.
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. No one has ever lost as hard as we have.
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.
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.
“Drift, is mind-bogglingly great: the kind of place that you’d think was amazing if you found it in New York.”
“Hugely respected by anyone who knows record shops and massively important to their native Devon.”
“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.”
Playlist
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.