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2020 Records of the Year
Albums, compilations, reissues and books from a year united in adversity. For your consideration, one hundred albums (plus choice reissues, books and compilations) released between January and late October of this year that we have loved playing. Hope you do too.
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Ambient
Some call it environmental music; Erik Satie called it furniture music (our favourite); but Brian Eno called it Ambient, and that's what stuck. Includes new age; drone; minimal electronic; and the softer side of experimental.
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Ambient, Minimal and New Age
These are the albums that have shifted moods and created new worlds. Slowly evolving music using synthesisers, field recordings, layered voices and ancient instruments. Concentrate intently or just let it all wash over you, a set of transcendental listening experiences new and old.
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Balladeers
Hard-learned life lessons from the cult-troubadours and long-roaming raconteurs. Tales of darkness and light with songs about all the vices. It's not a Country thing, it's just singing it like it is with a knowing gleam in the eye.
Beat Based Electronic
Broadly, anything with a beat. Some fast, some slow, but all Electronic music that brings up big human emotions with textures from house, techno, synth and experimental. Here are hand selected electronic records at Drift with a propulsive drive through beeps and clicks.
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Beautiful Voices
A beautiful voice can express so much more than a smart lyric ever will, these are singers of collective experience and shared emotions. Above all else, these are heartbreaking or spirit raising vocals that swoon.
Best Sellers
Popular, in demand, new, recent, back in stock, on the stereo and featured at Drift!
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Blues
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Books & Zines
We love stocking books and magazines, they feel very much part of the same culture as the records we rack. Most of the books are about music, some aren't.
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Connor
Listens to the extreme via the extreme in a full circle to include literally everything in between. Hammers the discount, pictures to prove it.
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Contemporary Classical
Contemporary Classical; strings, keys and drones, focused on the cinematic. Big cross-overs with avant-garde and Experimental.
Country, Americana
Country rock and roll right through to traditional American roots music and old fashioned Country. We love the new generation of voices, stories and outlaws.
Dinked Editions
Limited, special vinyl editions available exclusively at Drift. Dinked is a collective of like-minded, independent record shops from all over the UK and Ireland, working together to release music we love.
Drift Essentials
From all-time iconic albums to under the radar gems and future classics, the Drift Essentials collection is everything that we love and most certainly always will. You need these as the fundamentals of your record collection.
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Drift Records
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Electronic
Compiled of electro, house, techno, disco, downtempo, IDM, italo, synth and synthpop. It also crosses over into Experimental.
Experimental
Incorporating elements of noise, free jazz, minimal electronic music, field recordings, metal, drones and loops. All require more investment, all offer huge rewards.
