Soul Drift Music

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Regular readers of Soul Drift will know that Illuminatus were one of the local bands I took a shine to when I was at University. I think they are a fantastic live band, but I’d not heard any (good quality) studio versions of songs until now. Recently I have bee...

If you love energetic punk rock with a high sing-a-long factor, The Kleins are for you! The German band formed in 1997, but began to gain recognition in 2003 when they recruited British frontman Mark Booth...

The Smyrk are very different to any of the bands I have featured on Soul Drift thus far. The band – who hail from New Haven, Connecticut – are a wonderful fusion of hard rock and R&B. T...

The new Katatonia album, Night Is The New Day, is due to be released in the UK on November 2nd. It is an album I am really excited about! It is also an album that Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) has spoken very highly of (I know they’re good friends but I trust his judgement!). ...

In recent weeks I have become really interested in zines (& have even created my own perzine!). I am currently in the process of making a Soul Drift Zine but thought I should probably make a post about it to see if anyone would be interested in purchashing it...

There does not seem to be much information online about Canadian band, Fen, but they create fantastic dark progressive metal/rock. They remind me of Tool in some ways...

It has just been announced that stoner rock band Fu Manchu will release their eleventh full-length album, Signs of Infinite Power, on 20th October. I can’t wait to hear it! For more information about the album, what the band has to say about it & the tracklisting, visit their MySpace blog. ...

It is incredibly difficult to pin down Jen Gloeckner’s sound. She has a wonderful and unusual voice, and the music consists of many different elements. In a way, her music is quite folky, but it has an experimental edge. ...

Civet are from Long Beach, California, and describe themselves as ‘femme-fatale punk rock’. This is another band that was recommended to me by Last.FM – and I love them! I have listened to their 2008 debut album, Hell Hath No Fury, every day on Spotify since I ‘discovered’ them. It’s be...

I have just created an e-mail address for this website since my personal e-mail is getting flooded by people e-mailing me about Soul Drift! Please send press releases, submissions, questions etc. to the new address: souldriftmusic [at] gmail [dot] com Thanks...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not Sorry is the debut studio release by singer-songwriter/pianist, Catherine Elms. Before you roll your eyes and dismiss her as yet another “piano chick”, let me say that she is definitely not generic. Catherine herself exp...

I recently received e-mails about the Oxjam Cardiff Takeover Festival which is taking place in October. The festival sounds fantastic & I thought it would be something readers of this website would like to know about...

I’m really hoping that this supergroup formed by Dave Grohl, Josh Homme & John Paul Jones lives up to the hype… It sounds great so far, though! O...

Nhor is a one-man project from Herefordshire. He draws influences from “Forests, Mystery, Eschatology, Astrology, The Earth, Storms, Mist, Wind, Rain, Nature, The Night Sky, Beren & Luthien, The Starks, Loneliness & Sorrow”, to create beautiful atmospheric & ambient pieces. T...