The Weekly Drop (29/05/2025)

Every week behind the scenes, we're busy ordering and listening to lots of new music to bring you a carefully curated selection of new additions to the shop. The Weekly Drop is our way of bringing our new additions to the shop, to you.

You'll also see below a link to our cumulative Spotify playlist showcasing all the music that's come in recently.

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This Week's Releases

This Friday (29/05) spans across decades and continents, blending soulful rhythms, bold emotion, and innovative sounds to create vibrant, boundary-pushing music for uncertain times.

A personal and expansive journey drives Will Holland, aka Quantic, on his DJ-Kicks debut which is a dusk-to-night odyssey through over 20 years of musical relationships across the UK, US, and Colombia. Holland blends unreleased gems, exclusive cuts, and tracks from his alias Sobredosis into a rhythmically rich, emotionally layered set. “It’s not like writing an album: you’re at the mercy of what others are creating,” he says. “Luckily, the homies delivered.” The result is a vibrant snapshot of Quantic’s evolving sound world.

That evolving sound finds another voice in VOLUME 2, where MRCY, producer Barney Lister and vocalist Kojo Degraft-Johnson, expand their soulful, genre-blending sound into deeper emotional territory. Punchy, orchestral, and lyrically unflinching, the eight-track project channels afrobeat, jazz, and distorted grooves to confront modern crises with defiant optimism.

Sampling tradition gets a fresh spin with Salsa Verde, the latest chapter in Def Pressé’s Crate Diggers series with KPM. Here, Tom Caruana reworks rare archival material from the iconic music library. The project continues a cycle of sampling, reimagining, and reintegration. Now seven entries deep, the series includes contributions from Blockhead, Damu the Fudgemunk, and Stro Elliot.

The list of new releases doesn't stop here. For more information on this week's new releases, click the latest release button below!

Coming Soon...

Every week behind the scenes, we're busy ordering and listening to lots of new music to bring you a carefully curated selection of new additions to the shop.

Little Simz
, one of the UK’s most visionary artists, returns with Lotus, a bold new chapter in her journey. As a Brit, MOBO, and Ivor Novello winner, Simz continues to craft deeply personal, socially resonant music, now drawing from punk, jazz, afrobeat, and beyond to expand her ever developing sound.

Also on the horizon, Freestyle Records delivers a standout collection of rare UK street soul and boogie cuts from the ’80s and early ’90s, curated from its acclaimed reissue series. This compilation captures a vibrant, DIY musical era shaped by community, house parties, and soul in Thatcher-era Britain.

Want to see the other amazing albums we have in store? Head to the Coming Soon page by clicking the link.