The Drift Record Shop has been occupying number ninety one high street in the Devon county town of Totnes since 1994, selling a collection of music that is indefinable in it’s collective genre, style or outlook. This we see as a good thing.

Over the years we’ve come across absolute gold by listening to as much music as we can. We’ll be honest… there is very little logic to our buying. We just give everything a spin and if it ends up going against our tabs, into our shopping bags and on our iPods you can be sure that we’ll want to share.

We made the decision earlier this year to take the Drift Shop online and to try and do what we do in the physical shop on the Internet. If you come past the shop we’ll always have a record on and we’ll invariably all bang on at you about whatever handful of records we’re currently a bit obsessed with… The plan with the website hasn’t really moved any further forward in that model! It’s just an extra set of shelves to fill and some new friends to meet who can’t make it down to Totnes everyday. So as often as you care to stop by our new digital shop there will be a set of releases we’re excited to tell you about. They wont always be new, they certainly won’t all be familiar (even to us!) but they are there because we think they sound great and we’re pretty sure you’ll agree!

Drift Records. In our time we’ve even put out the occasional release as ‘Drift Records’. The label picked up glowing praise early on for it’s lo-fi folk, with albums by The R.G.Morrison, Thirty Pounds of Bone and Birdengine receiving national attention. Our first compilation ‘The Drift Collective’ gave the whole roster a showcase, highlighting (much as with the shops ethos) how Electronica, Folk, Indie and Americana can not only sit next to one another, but compliment each other finely. The compilation culminated with the whole roster joining forces to play as one super group at the Greenman Festival.

Subsequent albums from Matt Eaton, Tandy Hard and Mary Hampton also won the label many plaudits and more importantly lots of new friends. We were very proud to work with Muddy Suzuki and Thomas White (on his first solo album outside of Electric Soft Parade and Brakes) and also Scotland’s Le Reno Amps, all three groups showing how far we’d moved from the ‘folk label’ Drift had been billed as.

Another little miracle courtesy of Devon via Brighton’s always excellent Drift Records - Time Out

Inventive, imaginative and different; long may they collect together - Record Collector

The Drift Family provide a near-miraculous glimmer of frail, reflective humanity in a bullshit-filled world - Word Magazine

Down at the roots of British folk, strange things continue to stir. Devon’s Drift label has a small but intriguing roster of young talents.
- The Observer

More quality from the ever-excellent Drift Records - Mixmag

It’s out on Drift Records who are fast becoming one of the best UK indie’s ever. - Is This Music

You can peruse our fine fine back catalogue online soon and we encourage you all to have a good listen as we only put out records that we think are bloody lush. We’ve got some very exciting projects on the go right now so we’ll be sure to let you all know how they are all percolating in the Autumn and Winter.