A big week on the data-desk; lots of iced coffee and LOADS of great announcements to sink your ears into.  

From debuts to returns; collaborations to splits - this week really has got it goin' on. 

Sorry
Anywhere But Here 
Domino Recording Company

Such an inviting set of songs full of raw guitar tones and honest words. Distinctive production from Portishead’s Adrian Utley, this is truly a triumphant return.



END / Cult Leader
Gather & Mourn
Closed Casket Activities

A Connor Drift speciale that we're really digging - a heads up, this is HEAVY. Cult Leader and END join together to release their split EP, Gather & Mourn; fusing grind, hardcore, and death metal to devastating perfection. 



Gilla Band
Most Normal
Rough Trade Records

Avant-punk’s Gilla Band (FKA Girl Band) have really knocked it outta the park here. An evolving spectrum of kaleidoscopic noise and truthfully absurd lyrics that really hit home.



ELIZA
A Sky Without Stars
Different Recordings

Eliza makes a silky and bold return with A Sky Without Stars. Such cool beat-production and far-out instrumentation that really cocoons you into her sound world.


Pantha Du Prince
Garden Gaia
Modern Recordings

Okay, admittedly I (Leo) am a bit positively biased with music like this... but Garden Gaia really is most excellent. Such inviting and transportive ambient music that perfectly ties in to the sleeve art and video.



The Big Moon
Here Is Everything
Fiction Records

Returning for the first time since 2020, The Big Moon are back with Here Is Everything; a record about motherhood, parenthood, birth, lockdown, friendships and love.



Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
Reset
Domino Recording Company

A jubilant and rocking collaboration from two artists we really love. Reset is such a joy to listen to - full of unconventional guitar loops and deeply gratifying vocals. For fans of Animal Collective and Broadcast (and of course, SB and PD).

 


Julia, Julia
Derealization
Suicide Squeeze Records

Hazy, blurred and totally consuming, Derealization is the debut solo album from The Coathangers singer and guitarist, Julia Kugel.


 
Also announced this week; Bert Jansch, Ásgeir, Archers of Loaf, Horace Andy, LYZZA, Indigo Sparke, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, Marcus Mumford, Teen Suicide, SOHN, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Forsyth and so much more…
 
Some stellar reissues include; Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners, Reverend Horton Heat, Clark, Cloud Nothings, Neil Young, and Regina Spektor.

Check them all out here: https://driftrecords.com/preorder