Guys, we have records in abundance. Honestly, mark it down, what a week!

We’ll start with a handful you’ll probably already know about.

The maverick David Byrne releases his first new album in a few years with the explosive Who Is The Sky? Features Tom Skinner on the pigskins, plus St. Vincent and Paramore’s Hayley Williams amongst others. A proper joyous experience, irrepressibly so in fact.

+ Available on either Apple Green or Lemon colour vinyl with a poster.

The trio of Big Thief release the all new Double Infinity and it really is pretty special stuff. Pared-back but also hugely expansive, intimate, but with some cavernous reverbs. Adrianne Lenker sounds sublime, really enchanting.

+ Available on limited Green vinyl.

Cutthroat is the fourth album and euphoric return of shame. It is hard, it is aggressive, it is funny and it just shimmers with the right type of bravado. The production (with John Congleton) is just fantastic, such propulsive stuff throughout.

+ Available on limited "Hot Shots" colour vinyl.

Atlanta-based singer/songwriter and soul vanguard Curtis Harding releases Departures & Arrivals: The Adventures of Captain Curt. Conceptually it is an elaborate concept album about a pilot lost in space, but his turn of phrase is so relatable and his voice… honestly, incredible throughout.

+ Available on limited White colour vinyl.

A few that we have been well and truly giving the Drift most played treatment too…

Welsh radical traditionalist Gwenifer Raymond releases the hugely impressive Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark, a release that we proudly worked on as part of Dinked. Amazing technical abilities on the frets, but such inventive and cosmic movements on this. The real deal.

We are big Ghostwoman fans, and the progression on Welcome to the Civilized World is really fantastic. Still full of analogue sounding crunch, but somehow sharper and more panoramic with gestures towards grunge and darker psychedelia. Loads going on so this is ripe for the repeat plays.

+ Available on limited Orange vinyl  with a numbered poster.

24 Hr Sports is the new LP from super producer Leon Michels as El Michels Affair and it is absolutely dripping in good energy, a cinematic blend of hip-hop crackle and crate-dug soul. We will sell so many of these off the turntable I tell you!

+ Available on limited Red vinyl.

Jens Kuross has been on our radar for yonks in various forms, but his new solo LP - Crooked Songs - on Woodsist is just fantastic. Melancholic and hushed, and sort of off-kilter in a lo-fi way. Hayden Pedigo describes it in the liner notes as “Arthur Russell meets Harry Nilsson”... which ain’t wide of the mark. Bloody good.

Wide Awake is the debut LP from rising Münich-born, London-based producer Mechatok on Young, and it is another of this week’s hugely impressive ones. Experimental and frenetic, but equally primal when it gets propulsive. Been on repeat.

Also in this ridiculously vibrant week of new stuff… Antidepressants is the tenth LP from the iconic Suede. We have some nice special editions of it too. Michigan post-hardcore band La Dispute release No One Was Driving The Car, which we have been enjoying a lot. International is the final album-length statement from the esteemed Saint Etienne. Full of cameos and immaculate pop hues. We have just a last few copies of Four Tet’s gorgeous Into Dust (Still Falling) on 12”. Also very limited is the Oganesson Remixes from Tortoise. How flipping excited are we all about new Tortoise this Autumn yeah?! We have an extremely limited double transparent vinyl pressing of james K’s Friend on AD 93. Oh, and if you are up for a proper trip, Orcutt Shelley Miller is an avant-rock trio comprised of Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire). Yep! Saxophonist, flautist and producer Chip Wickham releases The Eternal Now on Gondwana Records and that is also gorgeous stuff.

Lastly today, we did talk a little bit the other day about the collaborative Shrunken Elvis LP, but that one has landed and it is really, really good! The Nashville-based trio of Spencer Cullum, Sean Thompson and Rich Ruth have extended their individual works in synths and pedal steels and other woozy timbres into something really extraterrestrial. Bit jazzy, bit ambient and some lush and unexpected little pops. Fantastic stuff.