Drift Record Shop

28/06/2026

Hello, friends.

Well, it’s been a little while since we last spoke, so I thought we’d catch up! Drift the building has gone. We kissed it on both cheeks, packed it all down, ran hands over that lovely counter one last time and passed 103 High Street over to someone else. I do miss lots of you, but never have I managed to make the right choice at the right time before and it still feels like it was the right choice and the right time.

Since those cold late-winter nights when Bill Callahan came to visit Drift (I mean, how was I possibly not gonna bring this up again?) I have been listening to hundreds and hundreds of albums, which is broadly no big change, but for both new things and new-not-new-things, 2026 is really turning out to be a stunner, I tell you. I am working with my new team at Resident Brighton (❤) right now on our staff mid-year most-loved lists, and there really are some scorching sounds to discuss. Although I can’t wait to start telling you about all the new records that I have been most crushing on, today, I am absolutely delighted to actually look backwards and bring you all the return of Sunday Classic, talking about how Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago was a defining part of the Resident story. You can read all about that on the Resident website, and boy is he still an absolute banger!

Smell you later, soon!

https://www.resident-music.com/blog/bon-iver-for-emma-forever-ago

26/02/2026

Last night, Bill Callahan came to Totnes and played some songs for us. It got steamy.

If you’re gonna go out, then going out with Bill playing some songs in the shop is the way you go out, no? I mean, retirement aside, how could we have ever topped this one? 

Bill’s new LP - My Days of 58 - is a real peach. We strongly recommend that you pick up a copy where good records are sold. 

Thanks,

28/01/2026

Dear friends and patrons of Drift, we have big news.

After a great deal of thought, I have made the decision that we’ve done all the good work we possibly can as Drift Records and we will be closing the business at the end of February. I know this will initially come as sad and uncomfortable news to many of you, but I want to assure you all that this choice was carefully considered and is very much on our terms.

Thriving on the high street in 2026 takes a huge number of skills, knowledge and experience, and through the success we have gained in working collaboratively on Dinked Editions, we have realised that we very much are stronger together…

The really big news is that I will be taking all of the Drift energy and, as Rupert Morrison, I will be joining the amazing team at . In possibly an industry first, some of the most proactive individuals in indie music retail are combining forces under the Resident name. We have solid and exciting plans to truly offer the best record shopping experience for you all and to champion music culture - from the fringes and grassroots to the biggest and most iconic names.

The Drift Records shop in Totnes and also driftrecords.com will be open as usual until Saturday 28th February and will then close. Not being at all subtle about it, we have a fantastic selection of records for you all to buy, so these are your last chances to come and see us, hear something new, hit the checkout and absorb that counter culture one more time. Also, fear not, Drift will be fulfilling all pre orders through March and the next few months, so please have no anxiety that we’re going to disappear into the night.

All good things must come to an end. We are phenomenally proud of what we achieved with Drift over the last twenty years, but I am ready for a change and really excited about the future. I am sure this next month will have all sorts of bittersweet moments, but for now, this is thank you, and the start of goodbye.

Rupert Morrison, founder of Drift Records.

22/01/2026

JAMES. BLAKE. 4. DINKED.

Man, this one is a big one. Bloody good.

https://driftrecords.com/products/james-blake-trying-times

James Blake x Dinked

Trying Times is James Blake’s seventh studio album and features British rapper Dave, and singer-songwriter Monica Martin. Written between Los Angeles and London, it’s a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. He explores the ten...

21/01/2026

WHITE DENIM ARE ONE OF THE BEST BANDS EVER...

Man alive are we pumped to bring you the band's new 13 LP as an exclusive Dinked Edition.

https://driftrecords.com/products/white-denim-13

Lush package. LUSH album. This really has given Wednesday a double shot start. Woop!

• Dinked Edition 391
• Black & yellow split vinyl *
• Signed & hand-numbered A4 risograph art print *
• 25cm x 8cm bumper sticker *
• Limited pressing of 500 *
• White Denim / Bella Union

*EXCLUSIVE to

21/01/2026

🚀 JOIN US AT 10AM FOR A RIGHT BLOODY STONKER!!!

Dinked /

20/01/2026

Pinch us, we’ve peaked!

To celebrate the release of his outstanding new album, My Days of 58, revered songwriter and all-time Drift hero Bill Callahan will be playing live in the shop at Drift on Wednesday 25th February at 7pm. Yes, it really is happening.

Those in attendance will also be able to exclusively purchase My Days of 58 (on CD, LP or cassette) on the night, a couple of days ahead of it’s general release. Bill might even sign them you know!

The babes at will be serving by the glass. Tickets are very limited.

… Yes, the actual Bill Callahan.

13/01/2026

Everyone here at Drift and Sea Change was so terribly sad to hear that Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, co-founding guitarist of black midi, has died.

Repeating the powerful words his family shared; “Please take a moment to check in with your loved ones so we can stop this happening to our young men”

Being a small part of that remarkable band’s ascension was utterly thrilling and remains one of our most proudest moments. Anyone who was in attendance on that day in 2019 when the band took the bucolic Dartington countryside through some sort of vortex into another sonic dimension will testify to the awesome power of music. It was profound.

💔

11/01/2026

This Sunday, the stereo is filled with exquisite air and a 1971 limited pressing called Seeds from cult British songwriter Alan James Eastwood.

Look, we absolutely love obscurities over here at Drift, but we honestly had no idea about this one - or Alan James Eastwood - until the heads over at Be With reissued it last August. Seeds is an absolute gem; folk balladry and evocative strings wrapped around a singular voice. It may have been largely lost to the sands of time until recent years, and why it never found its audience on releases is a mystery, but Seeds remains a total charmer and a pretty perfect first spin for your Sunday.

09/01/2026

Records of the Week

For the first time in ages, we are back to the business of new music business!Our first Record of the Week for this new year is Quicksand Heart, the debut solo release from Jenny On Holiday (Jenny Hollingworth), half of Let’s Eat Grandma (of whom we have long been fans). Also benefitting from a little flash of 80s pop sheen is Selling A Vibe, the ninth studio LP from The Cribs. We probably shouldn’t mention III from Pullman (a supergroup featuring members of Tortoise, Codeine, Rex, and Gastr del Sol) as we have literally a couple left, but it really is very good and you all have to promise to take a listen somehow! We have the absolutely stonking third LP from Dry Cleaning. Finally for today we have a little not-new treat (the week’s only Best New Reissue in fact) with Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó’s sizzling Jazz Raga on Vampisoul.

Visit Drift to get it going on.