The Drift Record Shop Blog

Yep… We are psyched!!Kurt Vile returns in April.

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:16:44 +0000

Yep… We are psyched!!

Kurt Vile returns in April.

Atoms For Peace - IngenueOut now on a multitude of formats!!

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:17:12 +0000

Atoms For Peace - Ingenue

Out now on a multitude of formats!!

DON’T FOLLOW ME (I’m Lost) a film about BOBBY BARE...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:36:04 +0000

DON’T FOLLOW ME (I’m Lost) a film about BOBBY BARE JR.

A special screening at the shop tonight plus Q&A session with the films director.

Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - What The...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:00:30 +0000

Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - What The Brothers Sang

What the Brothers Sang is made with deep respect for, is inspired by The Everly Brothers, but it pays tribute by being a record that only Dawn and Bonnie could make, and only in the room with the players that had come to join them.

Out 18th Feb on CD & LP.

This is the first track from the new Mazes album (out 18th of...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:00:10 +0000

This is the first track from the new Mazes album (out 18th of this month)

The album draws from a much broader palette than the band’s debut; utilizing repetitive loops and samples, playing up a rhythm section that could walk into any recording session by The Fall and feel comfortable, honing an expansive loose guitar sound and all the while retaining that unmistakable knack with melody.

‘II’ is the follow up and refinement to 2011’s self-titled,...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:36 +0000

‘II’ is the follow up and refinement to 2011’s self-titled, critically adored debut (released by Fat Possum and True Panther Sounds).

Out now on Jagjaguwar and it is our Record of the Week.

We’re expecting the new K-X-P to land real soon.Here is a...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:51:00 +0000

We’re expecting the new K-X-P to land real soon.

Here is a track called ‘Melody’. It’s pretty lush huh!

Welcome to the sound of Winston Yellen and Night Beds, who in...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:33:00 +0000

Welcome to the sound of Winston Yellen and Night Beds, who in one stunning ten-track debut album - ‘Country Sleep’ - have shown that there is plenty of life left in the world of American music if you have the voice, the songs and the gift to touch hearts and souls. Think of a space between Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon), Gram Parsons and the dreamier side of My Morning Jacket; a heavenly place of pure country soul, touched by an endearing innocence and honesty that can only come from someone still in their early twenties.

Every time we stick this on the stereo it sells… it’s one of those albums! Highly recommended.

What a total treat!!Recorded at Barbican Hall on 20th October...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:06:00 +0000

What a total treat!!

Recorded at Barbican Hall on 20th October 2012 by BBC Radio 3.

THE GHOST OF PIRAMIDAWe are very pleased to announce that we wil...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:44:31 +0000

THE GHOST OF PIRAMIDA

We are very pleased to announce that we wil be screening Efterklang’s doccumentary ‘THE GHOST OF PIRAMIDA’ on Tuesday 5th March at the shop.

Following the release of fourth album Piramida (Sep 2012, 4AD), Efterklang add another string to their bow with The Ghost of Piramida, a film by Danish director Andreas Koefoed, that documents the Danish trio’s visit to the abandoned Russian mining town where the record’s inception began back in the summer of 2011.

email rupert@thedriftrecordshop.com or visit this website to RSVP.
www.theghostofpiramida.com/attend-a-screening

Third Man Records is thrilled to announce the release of the...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:17:11 +0000

Third Man Records is thrilled to announce the release of the first three records in their highly-anticipated Document Records reissue series.

We are big time into this.

Tuesday 12th FebruaryDrift Record Club are delighted to invite...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:30:27 +0000

Tuesday 12th February

Drift Record Club are delighted to invite you to a free screening.

‘From the Sea to the Land Beyond’ is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film heritage stored in the British Film Institute collection, edited by Penny Woolcock with a soundtrack by British Sea Power.

Author Roy Wilkinson will be introducing the film and field questions.

Drift are delighted to kick off 2013’s film screenings...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:54:04 +0000

Drift are delighted to kick off 2013’s film screenings with a brilliant new documentary and Director Q&A session with William Miller.

DON’T FOLLOW ME (I’m Lost) ~ a film about BOBBY BARE JR.

This is a refined version of Dutch Uncles doing what they do...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:46:00 +0000

This is a refined version of Dutch Uncles doing what they do best - making labyrinthine pop of Escher-like complexity and crystal clarity.

“Coming from the generation of bookish Manchester bands striving to throw off Northern Indie’s boorish image, Dutch Uncles look set to graduate at the top of the class” - NME

Remaining faithful to her influences of Germanic märchen tales,...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0000

Remaining faithful to her influences of Germanic märchen tales, Eastern European children’s cinema and mechanical pop music, Jane Weaver expands her critically acclaimed ‘Fallen By Watchbird’ concept album in this ten chapter sequel-of-sorts by employing a cast of new actors and narrators to reinterpret her surreal ‘cosmic aquatic folklore’.

Jane Weaver is a hero at Drift and we’re thrilled to start 2013 off with a new LP.

Drift Record ClubWe took a nice break over Christmas… but...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:19:20 +0000

Drift Record Club

We took a nice break over Christmas… but we’re back.. this is what is happening;

Friday 11th January at 6pm
Playback Party featuring new music from;
* Yo La Tengo - Our record of the month and every bit as special as you’d expect.
* Ducktails - Guitar player for Real Estate and utter gem in his own right, new LP out late this month on Domino.
* The Horrors - Very early exclusive play of the new remix LP/set out in March.

Tuesday 15th January at 6pm
Playback Party featuring new music from;
* Villagers - Eagerly awaited new Villagers LP on Domino, with postcard pack give away!
* Mexican Summer label exclusives from Happy Jawbone Family Band and Spectral Park

Tuesday 22nd January 6pm - 7pm
Blackbird Collective acoustic instore
They’ve been promoting nights in Totnes for a year now… so come and see them acoustic and up close at Drift. Keep an eye on the social sites for the line up.

Wednesday 30th January at 6pm
Monthly retrospective review featuring tracks and albums from; Arbouretum, Alasdair Roberts & Friends, Matthew E White, Toro Y Moi, Wave Machines, Esben And The Witch, Indians and many more…

Tuesday 5th February at 7pm
Richard Thomas presents
Totnes poet Richard Thomas will be reading from his new collection ‘The Strangest Thankyou’ - Plus his hand picked guests.

Bubbling beneath their supreme melodic instincts, there’s a...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:41:00 +0000

Bubbling beneath their supreme melodic instincts, there’s a wild, nervy energy and a raw musicianship that makes Foxygen incapable of doing anything exactly straight. They somehow pack a host of musical left turns, lyrical non sequiturs and decades-spanning bridges into industry preferred 3 - 4 minute gems that are at both reinvention and memorial.

We’re expecting to be talking about Foxygen all year long.

Expansive, richly romantic ambient fare from Moodgadget...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:37:00 +0000

Expansive, richly romantic ambient fare from Moodgadget co-founder and Brooklyn resident Jakub Alexander, making his full-length debut on Ghostly International as Heathered Pearls.

Great way to start the year via the ever excellent Ghostly.

Record Club…. assemble!!!!It’s nearly here right?! You all...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:16:45 +0000

"The Sound of Two Thousand and Thirteen"

Matthew & Me - Live at the Great Hall

Record Club…. assemble!!!!

It’s nearly here right?! You all sorted for gifts? You made sure you told your loved ones which albums you want? We’re open right through till next Monday (24th) afternoon and we’ve stocked about as many records as we can fit in the place. This is, a sight, to be seen.

Amongst all the less fun sounding Christmas activities (office party, visiting in-laws) there are a couple of highlights this week worth flagging up

Tuesday 18th December ~ 6pm - 10pm
“The Sound of Two Thousand and Thirteen”
We already have been sent through some MASSIVE albums to preview for release next year, so this week we’re going to be breaking out new albums from Villagers, Yo La Tengo, Foxygen, Ólöf Arnalds and The Black Twig Pickers.

Wednesday 19th December ~ Doors 7pm
Matthew & Me - Live at the Great Hall
It isn’t exactly Record Club, but Matthew Drift and his band are playing live at the Great Hall in Dartington and we’re spinning some discs. If you produce your Record Club card on the door you can pay a concessionary rate of £8.

"IAMEPIC"

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:48:00 +0000

“IAMEPIC”

- Epic Wednesday

We’re pretty confident that all UK orders placed this Wednesday (19th December) will arrive at their desired destination before Christmas… those postman are working damn hard.

So to celebrate, we are going to have EPIC WEDNESDAY!!

Enter the code ‘IAMEPIC’ at the checkout (or print the form and arrive in shop) and we’re offering a slammin’ 25% discount on all orders.

We know… we kick ass.