Dinosaur Jr., The Scientists, Velocity Girl, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Jah Thomas and Smashing Pumpkins.
Quite a few riffs on reissue this week, with two jazz essentials and some real nice dub too!
A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Pharoah Sanders, Sandy Harless, Zero Boys and Super Djata Band & Zani Diabaté.
Maybe it’s the light, but this week’s collection of essential new-not-new really has put us in a particularly good mood…
The Radio Dept, Drop Nineteens, Charles Brown, Bobby Hutcherson, Lee Morgan and Suzanne Ciani.
Dream pop, shoegaze, Queer country rock, shades of Jazz and synthesiser meditations. I mean, it’s all very us.
Talking Heads, Skip James, Modesto Duran, Sleaford Mods, White Noise and Beastie Boys.
A big week with stuff that we have loved for decades and other bits that we didn't know; but will be loving for decades!
Dead Moon, Clifford Jordan and the Three Sounds and Thad Jones.
A thriller and two chillers, plus forthcoming attractions for any occasion…
Laraaji, The Cuca Label, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Cannonball Adderley, Lee Morgan and I Saw The TV Glow.
Full of sweet soul and jazz colossuses, with transcendental floats and soundtrack woozes inbetween.
Shin Joong Hyun, Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound, J Dilla, Mike Nyoni & Born Free, Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter and Soul Jazz RASTAFARI.
A right little tour of wide world sounds. Toots, beats and clatter. Great stuff!
Lee Underwood, Sharon Van Etten, Plush, Shanghai’d Soul and Neil Young with Crazy Horse.
Guitars like divine sunrise, the sound of heartbreak, funk and soul essentials and Neil with The Horse.
Spiritualized®, Aphex Twin, Unwound, The Shacks, Queens Of The Stone Age and Grateful Dead.
Upbeat, downbeat, heavy, mellow, sad and joyous. A full and varied offering of new-not-new.
BADBADNOTGOOD, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Italians Do It Better, Wings and Master Wilburn Burchette.
All-time classics, contemporary soothers and a dabble into the occult.
Alice Coltrane, Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean, Doug Watkins, TOPS and Margo Guryan.
It’s a new week at the record shop and we have jazz records in abundance.
Raúl Gómez, Can, El Michels Affair, Witch, Amanaz and ESG.
Come to the Drift, this week we are totally full of the hot stuff with Raúl Gómez, Can, El Michels Affair, Witch, Amanaz and ESG.
Discover slightly longer reads with an anthology of our favourite ‘Sunday Classic’ albums.
NOVEMBER
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Our November Record of the Month is Nobody Loves You More, the first full-length album from cult musician and legit cultural icon, Kim Deal.
FEATURE
The La’s - The La’s
One of the best eponymous albums ever. One of the finest debut albums ever. One of the most genuinely timeless albums ever.
SEPTEMBER
Kit Sebastian - New Internationale
The sound of early Autumn 2024 is very much the swirling and evocative combination of Anatolian rock and vintage global grooves…
FEATURE
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The iconic second LP from A Tribe Called Quest. An absolute classic of murky beats, hazy samples and bubbling lyrical flows.