Family owned and operated, Drift Records was the award-winning independent record shop in Totnes, Devon.
Drift was a firm fixture of the Totnes High Street since the mid-nineties, also selling records & goods online since early 2010. We saw the fall and the rise through millions of albums; we had been doing this for ages.
We decided to close because what was required to run an independent shop in 2026 wasn't what we wanted anymore. We had built an amazing community over the years - and we'll do something here one day - but that wasn't enough. It all moves too fast. Nice photos needed to become optimised videos. The churn was just too fast and we stopped being able to tell people about records.
It was the right time. We left at the top of our game.
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 ever lost as hard as we have.
If you ever came to see us, spoke to us online or had some other nice interaction, you made us very happy for twenty years.
“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.”
