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Drift Records
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🏆 The current best independent record shop in the UK. We've been selling records in Totnes since 1994.
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A mixed bag of classics, from NYC to Kingston and from clattering guitars to deranged synths. Like.

Best New Reissues: Patti Smith, Aphex Twin, The Mercury Program, Caroline Polachek, Foals, Soul Jamaica and Tough Love 20.

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A mixed bag of classics, from NYC to Kingston and from clattering guitars to deranged synths. Like. Best New Reissues: Patti Smith, Aphex Twin, The Mercury Program, Caroline Polachek, Foals, Soul Jamaica and Tough Love 20.
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Stuff you’ll know, stuff you won’t and absolutely something for everybody.

Best New Reissues: Rick Asikpo and Afro Fusion, Les Disques Bongo Joe, Spiritual Soul, MF DOOM, Metronomy, Autechre and Hot Chip.

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A photo of the Drift shop counter with Best New Reissues from Rick Asikpo and Afro Fusion, Les Disques Bongo Joe, Spiritual Soul and MF DOOM.
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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This week is properly stacked with ‘something for everybody’ energy…

Records of the Week; Water From Your Eyes, James Yorkston and Friends, Nourished By Time, Mac DeMarco, Superchunk, Adrian Sherwood, Deftones and Wolf Alice.

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An arial photo of the counter at Drift. Mac Demaco plays on orange vinyl. you can also see records by Kurt Vile and Wolf Alice in a pile.
August 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Drift Sunday Classic
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

Released in the mid-summer of 1971, Maggot Brain was the third album from George Clinton’s Funkadelic, a psychedelic opus of supreme magnificence.

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a photo of Funkadelic – Maggot Brain on vinyl.
August 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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As they say, you’ve either heard it or you haven’t...

Drift Sunday Classic. Marquee Moon is the debut LP from Television, an absolutely perfect album of winding riffs that’s a solid lock in for the Drift all time top ten…

Nah, come on… top five, at least!

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A clear vinyl copy of Television - Marquee Moon photographed inside Drift Records. A clear vinyl copy of Television - Marquee Moon photographed inside Drift Records. A clear vinyl copy of Television - Marquee Moon photographed inside Drift Records. A clear vinyl copy of Television - Marquee Moon photographed inside Drift Records.
August 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Drift Sunday Classic.

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

The one where the British folk-rock pioneers went even more folky. An absolute belter of traditional sounds and the odd wig-out.

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A photo of Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking on vinyl peeping out of the racks at Drift.
August 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Different shades of heavy, dream pop swirls, deep swoon, and a boatload of Latin bangers.

Best New Reissues; Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, Richard Hawley, Cal Tjader, EELS and Earth.

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A photograph of Richard Hawley’s Coles Corner LP in the racks at Drift.
July 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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July had already been a great month for the new stuff, but this final Friday is just glorious!

Records of the Week; Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, Cory Hanson, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist, Pharoah Overlord, Yoshika Colwell, Golomb and Folk Bitch Trio.

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A photograph of the inner sleeve of the new Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band LP. You can see a little peep of the record shop in the background.
July 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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A couple of filthy beasts that we have long adored and some utterly sublime sounds that we’re just falling for.

Best New Reissues; Grinderman, Tidiani Koné and Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Sun Ra, Eddie Henderson, Donald Byrd and The Wild Magnolias.

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A photo of Grinderman and Grinderman 2 on vinyl. They peep out of the vinyl racks at Drift Records.
July 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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WE ARE WELL EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE....

Dinked Edition 359 - Announced in an hour!

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July 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ending June with impeccable balladry, smooth soul, new rap essentials and even some deranged guitars.

Records of the Week: BC Camplight, Durand Jones & The Indications, billy woods, Mocky, Frankie Cosmos, BigXthaPlug, Aerial Salad and Tropical Fuck Storm.

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An arial shot of records on the counter and turntable at Drift Records. Gabriel Brady plays on clear vinyl.
June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Man alive, OSEES for DINKED!!!

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A visual mock up of the OSEES Dinked Edition package
June 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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WE ARE SUCH A RISK TO GIVE THIS ONE AWAY BECAUSE WE ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT IT....

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A teaser graphic to show that Dinked Edition 356 is announced at 4pm today!
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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We did tell you it was a big one!

The incendiary Sprints return with 'All That Is Over' and we have an exclusive Dinked Edition!

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SPRINTS - All That Is Over digital mock up to show the Dinked Edition package.
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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A week of both quantity and supreme quality, from the guitar scorchers to the minute textures and wooze!

Records of the Week; UNIVERSITY, The Sick Man Of Europe, Hotline TNT, Nathan Salsburg, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, Biosphere, Daily Toll and U.S. Girls.

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A photo of the The Sick Man Of Europe sleeve held in the shop. Natural light reflects on one side, and the light bulb glow covers the eyes on the sleeve.
June 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Our June Record of the Month is Durand Jones & The Indications’ Flowers, another vibrant evolution of their soul sound.

Visit Drift to read more...

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A graphic to show that Durand Jones and The Indications is the June Record of the Month at Drift Records.
June 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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DINKED 353 FROM PROLAPSE!!

A hard and frenetic return from the cult sextet.

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• Red vinyl LP*
• Red vinyl 7” with outtake “Swearing For Decoration” & “Ectoplasm Untied (A Faust Remix)”*
• Numbered sleeve*
• limited pressing of 500*

* EXCLUSIVE to #DinkedEdition
DINKED 353 FROM PROLAPSE!!
June 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Woozing synaesthesia, rasping Zamrock and big pop maximalism amongst other fine stereo additions.

Records of the Week: Holden & Zimpel, WITCH, Patrick Wolf, The Bug Club, Patrick Wolf, Cosey Fanni Tutti, British Birds, The Budos Band and Lavinia Blackwall.

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An arial photo of the counter at Drift. Holden & Zimpel plays on white vinyl on a white turntable. There is also a red price gun!
June 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Looping magic from Mali, punk-adjacent synth pop and some other serious tones for your stereo.

Best New Reissues; Super Djata Band, Pete Shelley, Venetian Snares, Sarah Davachi and New Order.

If you'd like to read more, you’re very welcome.

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A photo of Super Djata Band on a white turntable. Shot from above, great colours on the inner sleeve.
June 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Drift Sunday Classic; Stevie Wonder - Innervisions.

Innervisions is the fourteenth studio album from Stevie Wonder, and it is absolutely stacked with innovative sounds, lush tones and incredible songs.

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A photograph of Stevie Wonder - Innervisions on a light surface. There are dried flowers slightly out of focus in the foreground, shot form above.
June 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A couple of truly epic returns, a couple of truly sizzling Dinked Editions and some genuine thrillers. We are stacked!

Records of the Week; Pulp, Little Simz, Lifeguard, Hayden Pedigo, McKinley Dixon, Ouzo Bazooka, Ben Lamar Gay and Lucy Gooch.

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A photo of hands holding a Hayden Pedigo poster in the shop at Drift Records.
June 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Brighton-based, Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond returns with Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark, her third album and a bold step into the cosmic unknown.

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A visual mock up of the Dinked Edition package for Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
June 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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‘Songs for Nina and Johanna’ is the beautiful new album from James Yorkston, this time featuring not one but two of Sweden’s most recognisable female vocalists!

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A mock up to show the Dinked Edition vinyl package for James Yorkston and Friends - Songs for Nina and Johanna
June 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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New York duo Water From Your Eyes have just announced their new It’s A Beautiful Place LP and we have a Dinked Edition!

WAAAOOHH!!! - It's really good man!

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June 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Today is a double Dinked day!

Join us at 3pm and 5pm for two really stonking announcements.

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Graphic; DINKED EDITION 350 - Announcing 3pm, Wednesday 4th June. #dinkededition. Graphic; DINKED EDITION 350 - Announcing 3pm, Wednesday 4th June. #dinkededition.
June 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM