Lots of you have been asking about these releases so we figured post a couple of pictures to let you know they’d arrived.
Leonard Cohen is on CD & LP (which is kind of limited) and we’ve already been playing it instore. Gravely!
Lana Del Rey is also on CD & LP (European import vinyl) and also has a deluxe edition CD with a few extra tracks.
We’ve been eagerly awaiting the Proper Ornaments EP on No Pain In Pop and we can confirm it is jangle pop of the highest order.
Radiohead - Staircase (live From the Basement)
Here’s a new track called Staircase, taken from our upcoming ‘From The Basement’ session.
And no, you’re not seeing double. The doppelganger drummers are myself and Clive Deamer. Clive has long been one of my favourite drummers and so I was really excited when he agreed to perform with us. Hope you like what we’ve all done.
Philip x
- Philip Selway, Radiohead.
Out now on DVD at Drift
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Wiley - ‘Boom Blast’
It’s New Year and it’s time to lose that gut, people. Even if you can’t afford the equipment.
Wiley returns with the video for underground smash “Boom Blast”. Directed by US Design, the Best Newcomer winners at the recent Music Video Awards, this goes out to all the sweating, over-weight, tortured gym bunnies in the place. Stretch!
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We’ve been waiting for the new issue of Yeti to arrive and as expected it looks beautiful.
ON THE HARD-VINYL 7” EP, Four archival, never before heard songs: MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL (two amazing 1959 Lomax recordings). THE TIKI MEN’s stellar take on Duane Eddy’s “First Love, First Tears,” recorded around 1994. Plus a new cover by Portland’s own dreampop slayer GROUPER of Dead Moon’s “Demona,” recorded just the other week!
INSIDE THE 8” BY 8” BOOK: Lovely cover image of a big red giant walking over a little town on fire, by Portland’s favorite illustrator CARSON ELLIS. A portfolio of rare and never-before-seen photographs from the ALAN LOMAX ARCHIVES ca. his fabled 1959 ‘Southern Journey.’ Translator and poet Margarita Shalina delivers a personal, well-researched look at NEW YORK’S 1980s HARDCORE punk scene (she was there, man). Beyond-rare artifacts from gentle genius Kim Spurlock’s deep trove of NEAL CASSADY ephemera. Musician/ music historian NED SUBLETTE’s chat with esteemed music critic/ editor Daphne Carr is a roller-coaster ride into the eye of the post-Katrina diaspora, touching on many musical histories with concise and not wanky politico-historical context. JAMAICAN GOSPEL 7” label scans, which is a lot more interesting than it sounds.
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by Rhyton
album Rhyton
Rhyton is an experimental/improv/psych trio based in Brooklyn that features Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama)
Enjoy the above album preview
LP version is limited to only 500 copies worldwide and includes a postcard insert and free download coupon.
CD version is limited to 200 hand-made and hand-numbered copies. Front cover features a hand-glued image.
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This really is superb.
Animated video for Wilco’s song “Dawned on Me”, from ‘The Whole Love’ album.
There’s also an accompanying website, wilcospinach.com, that teases Wilco-brand spinach “coming soon”.
by DJ Food
album Solid Steel Radio Show
Solid Steel Radio Show
Strictly Kev from DJ Food is in the spotlight with an interview about his new album ‘The Search Engine’
We get an insight into the making of his album, the collaborators involved and the artwork created by Henry Flint and Strictly Kev himself. We also get to hear tracks from the album along with music that has influenced him over the years, with tracks from Adam and the Ants, Kraftwerk, Grace Jones and Boards of Canada.
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Islet - Illuminated People
‘Illuminated People’ follows 2010’s rapturously received pair of EPs – ‘Celebrate This Place’ and ‘Wimmy’ – which the NME described as being “a sonic boom in the face to anyone who might have thought they had something to hide”. A group who work under a strict autonomy, this is, as a result, their most cohesive sounding work to date.
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The Great Palace Reissue
We are delighted that Domino is to reissue five Palace albums on the 27th of February.
The five albums reissued are: There is No-one What Will Take Care Of You (Palace Brothers, 1993), Days In The Wake (Palace Brothers, 1994), the mini album, Hope (Palace Songs, 1994), the Steve Albini-recorded Viva Last Blues (Palace Music, 1995) and the compilation, Lost Blues And Other Songs (Palace Music, 1997).
All of the reissues will be available on LP and CD (in a mini ‘LP’ style pack) except for Lost Blues And Other Songs which will be available on mini gatefold card CD pack and on double gatefold vinyl. The reissues will feature new artwork and packaging, with text written by Will Oldham.
Each Palace record features a different set of musicians and a revolving cast of contributors. Consequently each Palace album has a unique tone and atmosphere in which Oldham’s cra.
Get ready to rediscover what made those albums so special, and if you haven’t hear them yet, get ready to become a lifelong fan.
Pre-sale links to follow, contact the shop direct in meantime.
by Zomes
album Improvisations
Zomes is the solo work of Asa Osborne (Lungfish, The Pupils). Improvisations follows his album ‘Earth Grid’ and ‘2013-3012’ - his recent collaboration with The Skull Defekts and Daniel Higgs.
He is an absolute HERO at Drift HQ.
Enjoy this preview.
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First Aid Kit - “The Lion’s Roar” from the album of the same name.
Swedish Sisters First Aid Kit Have Gone From Faraway Teenage Fans Covering Fleet Foxes For Fun To Recording A Blue Series 7” Of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ‘Universal Soldier’ With Jack White In His Nashville, TN Third Man Studios.
Album Closer ‘King Of The World’ Features The Felice Brothers, Just Passing Through Town During The Session, And Local Hero Conor Oberst, Who Sings The Last Verse.
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by Jason Urick
album I Love You
‘I Love You’ is the brand new album from Jason Urick following his ‘Fussing & Fighting’ 12” EP and his debut album ‘Husbands’.
Out now on CD & LP
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Craig Finn discusses and performs “Jackson” (from the new LP Clear Heart Full Eyes)
Craig Finn moved to Brooklyn years ago, but he’s still a good Midwestern boy at heart. He invited The A.V. Club to his apartment when we were in New York City recently, and was a very welcoming host, playing us one of the best songs from his first solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes,
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Record Of The Week
Chairlift - “Something”
After more than 18 months of composition and recording, Brooklyn-based duo Chairlift return with a new album called ‘Something’, their dense and deftly-driven sophomore episode.
