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Yaya Bey

Do It Afraid

Drink Sum Wtr

2xColoured LP

£29.99

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DSW023LPC1

Release date
Expected 15 Aug '25
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Liquid gold vinyl & poster

Release date: Expected 15 Aug '25

“Suffering is promised to us all, but so is joy. You have to find peace in that duality,” says Yaya Bey, who commits to life’s delight — humor, love, the power of human movement and connection — even if she has to do it afraid. With her new album, which follows a run of critically acclaimed releases and marks her debut on art-forward indie label drink sum wtr, the Queens, New York singer-songwriter thrives across uplifting, effervescent material. A rejection of past narratives projected onto her, ‘do it afraid’ finds Bey reclaiming her story with resolutely fun, full-hearted, and nuanced songs that pull from R&B, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and dance music, including the soca stylings of her family’s Bajan roots. do it afraid celebrates all sides of Yaya as part of a collective lifeforce that doesn’t subscribe to fear but to the moments that move us.

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1. Wake Up B*tch
2. End Of The World (feat. Nigel Hall & Butcher Brown)
3. Real Yearners Unite
4. Cindy Rella
5. Raisins
6. Spin Cycle
7. Dream Girl
8. Merlot And Grigio (feat. Father Philis)
9. Breakthrough
10. A Surrender
11. In A Circle
12. Aye Noche (feat. Rahrah Gabor And Exaktly)
13. No For Real, Wtf?
14. Blicky
15. Ask The Questions
16. Bella Noches Pt. 1
17. A Tiny Thing That’s Mine
18. Choice

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Annahstasia

Tether

Drink Sum Wtr

Coloured LP

£22.99

Red clay vinyl

Cat Number

DSW011LPC1

Release date
Expected 13 Jun '25
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Red clay vinyl

Release date: Expected 13 Jun '25

The lead single to Annahstasia's 'Tether', her debut LP on drink sum wtr, welcomes drums, brass, and horns into a sweeping nod to healing. "We are all made of both shadow and light. From some angle, we have all been the villain of the story," she adds, suggesting that often, the only way to move on is through understanding that "we are all trying our best, negotiating survival." At its triumphant peak, above gospel-like shouts, she delivers the reprise with a smile: "Take it / Take it back / This dull knife of memory / I still hear your voice inside my head / Says that I'm the villain of the story."

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1. Be Kind
2. Villain
3. Unrest
4. Take Care Of Me
5. Slow (ft. Obongjayar)
6. Waiting
7. Overflow
8. All Is. Will Be. As It Was. (ft. Aja Monet)
9. Silk And Velvet
10. Satisfy Me
11. Believer

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Your Grandparents

The Dial

Drink Sum Wtr

Coloured LP

£25.99
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Antique vinyl

Cat Number

DSW015LPC1

Release date
16 May '25
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Antique vinyl

Your Grandparents are fascinated with time. It can neither be created nor killed; there’s never enough of it, but it can stretch on forever. Time is a form of currency that can be saved, spent, and gambled away. In the end, it makes fools of us all. On their drink sum wtr debut, 'The Dial', the Los Angeles trio — producer Cole Thompson and vocalists DaCosta and Jean Carter — deeply consider these disparate ideas. The record works as a meditation on time, but posits that in order to truly grasp the concept and all of its ambient qualities, one must remain rooted in the present. The group, who met in middle school in Culver City and are now in their mid-late 20s, has been making music for a decade, patiently watching the pieces of their career fall into place. They seemed to snatch their genre-agnostic but hip-hop-rooted songs from the cosmos, seizing on a moment of inspiration — a loop here, a turn of phrase there — and proceeding in a stream of consciousness. The Dial took shape more slowly, with what DaCosta calls “focused intentionality.” Your Grandparents chipped away at the material, careful not to rush any one element into place. The result is stunning: a kaleidoscopic trip through heartaches and joys, moments of frustration and hope. Their vocals effortlessly switch between elastic band rap flows and golden-hued melodies as the production reaches through time, gathering up influences — from house-meets-G-funk slink to Dilla-time boogie to ESG-informed dance-punk — all meshed together into a singular whole.

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1. The Dial
2. All Dem Times
3. Tea Lounge/Blossom (feat. Iyana)
4. I Got High One Day
5. Ali & Jenn
6. Met-A-Morphosis
7. BAD NEWS
8. Be Cool
9. Hypnotized (feat. Blackwave.)
10. Down
11. Conversations
12. White Flags

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THEY.

LOVE.JONES

Drink Sum Wtr

R&B duo THEY. — songwriter Drew Love and producer Dante Jones — have developed a smooth, future-facing sound for nearly a decade. In the early days, it was simple; two artists aligning on an appreciation for '90s R&B, new jack swing, and the height of soul-sampling hip-hop. Jones making beats and Love on the lines, a basic, balanced, and open-ended setup, free from major label expectations (which they'd feel on their 2017 breakout 'Nü Religion Hyena') and high-profile collaborations (explored on 2018's 'Fireside', 2020's 'The Amanda Tape', and 2023's 'Nü Moon'). They're proud of every stop along their story, while hindsight and a fresh perspective after signing to Secretly-affiliate label drink sum wtr have afforded them some distance to reflect on where THEY. goes next.

The answer is 'LOVE.JONES'. Here the duo exudes a whole new energy by reasserting their artistry in its most potent and pure form, just Love and Jones, making straight-fire, love-making music indebted to the golden neo-soul era that gave us the namesake 1997 film. “Forget the features, forget bringing in the big producers and writers. It's really just a return to our original dynamic," says Jones. Refined and reinvented, THEY. have arrived at their boldest work, a stacked, high-energy collection celebrating Black art, culture, and "the intense feelings of Black love."

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1. LOVE.JONES
2. Choosin'
3. Diamonds And Pearls
4. Rotation
5. *5 STAR*
6. Drive Thru
7. Never Change
8. Straight Up
9. Gemini
10. Can't Let Go

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********[The Drink]

The Drink [********]

Weird World

2xLP

£21.49

Cat Number

WEIRD105LP

Release date
26 Jan '18
Includes MP3 Download Code.

******** are re-releasing their first and final record ‘The Drink’.

‘The Drink’ is a twelve-track album addressing a duo’s contemporary and indifferent existence in The West. ******** are comprised of Ailie Ormston, who works in a kitchen and Ω, one half of the partnership Edinburgh Leisure.

********’s vision of the world is portrayed through “rudimentary bass and de(con)structive guitar” (Neil Cooper). With hacked drum machines and preprogramed keyboards, they create compositions that complement their lyrical content, itself demonstrating a harsh and contemptuous reality. The album presents a series of theatrically characterised scenarios; universal summaries of the day-to-day; habitual and excessive; promising and disparaging.

Recorded during a six-month period and originally released solely on YouTube, the album itself addresses new modes of working and an interest in musical versatility.

Being unrehearsed, unknowing and capable of compromise are key to the ******** ethos, with an emphasis on changing the form of each song to suit different performative environments. Authorship and individualism are discouraged; preciousness of ownership is challenged. 85% honest, 15% misquoted; 100% sincere.

You will find them in the pub. Drink the dark, depressive drink.

“I’m a huge fan of ********!” - Saul Adamcweski, Insecure Men / ex-Fat Whites

“******** are the future” - Rosy Bones, Goat Girl

“Like having a pint with Brass Eye. One of my favourite albums, ever.” - Liam Ramsden, Mellah

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The Drink
I’m A Zookeeper (Not A Goalkeeper)
Trish
Kinderpunsch
Bowling Green
Practical Song (aka The Logical Song)
Signs Of Life In The Computer
Comedian
Readymade
Schweppes Bitter Lemon
Scottish Water
Doberman

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Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums

Better Friends

Fika / Where Its At Is Where You Are

First there was Paul McCartney, Phil Lynott and Lemmy, and now in 2017 Bill Botting swells the esteemed ranks of bass-players-with-moustaches-come-charismatic-front-men. Following Allo Darlin’s triumphant farewell back in Dec 2016, their ever-buoyant bass player Bill Botting is releasing his debut solo album on Fika Recordings & WIAIWYA. He gathered a supergroup of siblings and indie legends including Allo Darlin’ bandmate Paul Rains, Jonny Helm from The Wave Pictures, Tom Wade from Owl & Mouse, Laura K from Tigercats, Darren Hayman and Hannah Botting from home and christened them the Two Drink Minimums.

Better Friends is simply described as indie mixed with country, or country mixed with indie. Or like if Lou Reed went to a Linda Ronstadt Concert in 1988 and decided to have a change of direction. Imagine the soundtrack to a 1970's road movie directed by John Hughes, with a little power pop, some cosmic American music and some post-punk, pre-indiepop jangle, all played through an Australian indie filter, with a Paul Simon cover thrown in for good measure. You can hear the Go-Between's in there, some solo McCartney, perhaps an Antipodean Kinks and even some classic Hall and Oates. Better Friends was predominantly written on the move: on 3 hour night buses, tour vans and cross country trains. There are tales of hotel rooms without spare keys [Paulie’s Girl], absurd ‘sexy’ Halloween costumes (Sexy Mental Patient, Sexy Zombie etc) [Feeling Sad Again] and the difficulty of explaining depression to your eldest child [Difficult Stuff].

The cover of Graceland came from hearing Willie Nelson’s version while waiting for the rest of the band to arrive for the first rehearsal. Having thought it was uncoverable, Bill proceeded to cover it with the gang. And he still modestly maintains that The Two Drink Minimums’ version is the second best of the three. It's honest and personal, melancholy and joyous... like a warm hug from a new friend at the end of a boozy night.

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01 Better Friend
02 Burning Bridges
03 Knew You When
04 Treating You Right
05 Graceland
06 Feeling Sad Again
07 The Rug
08 Paulie's Girl
09 Difficult Stuff

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Death To The Strange

Closer / Drink & The Devil

Queen Nymphet Records

Death to the Strange are a Salford (Manchester) based five piece, fusing lyric-driven, folk-inspired songs with ambient electronic sounds and an amplified rhythm section. With instrumentation tailored to each tune, the band are looking to take in and build on all interesting music out there. In recent months things have been moving more and more quickly for Death to the Strange, with headlining slots at acclaimed Salford and Manchester venues, more high profile supports (Gomez) and a growing repertoire of radio and press coverage. In the words of one Salford City Radio DJ: 'check them out or look proper daft in a year or so!'

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Drink Up Buttercup

Farewell Captain / Sosey & Dosey

Kanine Records

Ltd 7"

£3.99

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Cat Number

KR381

Release date
8 Jun '09
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Limited edition coloured vinyl. Includes free download coupon.

Born in a Buck's County barn on a frigid winter night, Drink Up Buttercup has gained an international following in only one year's time. After being kicked out of their practice space for disturbing the horses, Drink Up was soon besieged with praise in publications like Philadelphia Weekly, and in blogs such as Almack's Dance Hall, Ear Farm, and The Music Slut. 'Philly quartet Drink Up Buttercup build you up with the post-Beatles harmonies of the La's and the post-Beatles surrealism of Electric Light Orchestra or Super Furry Animals'. - PitchforkMedia.com

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Victoria Williams

Water To Drink

Atlantic / Warners

Although a much larger production than her 1998 album "Musings of a Creek Dipper", Victoria Williams has lost none of her down home Louisiana on her latest release "Water to drink", she has the same concerns and preoccupations as usual with an all pervading Christian compassion.

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