Courtney Barnett locks down #1 on the NACC 200 for a second week with her Mom + Pop release, Tell Me How You Really Feel. This is the fourth time we’ve featured the Aussie singer-songwriter in our chart recap due to all the chart-best accomplishments this album has achieved. Barnett will be stateside next month for tour dates all over Canada and the US, starting with the Winnipeg Folk Festival on July 6th and ending on July 28 in Rhode Island with the Newport Jazz Festival. Barnett will need to fend off two indie music titans for the top spot next week in Father John Misty (4-2) and Neko Case (7-5).
The only album to reach the NACC Top 10 this week is last week’s most-added record from Melody Prochet aka Melody’s Echo Chamber. Prochet worked closely with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker on her 2012 debut but after the duo’s attempt at a second album hit a dead end, she teamed with Amazing’s Fredrick Swahn and Dungen’s Reine Fiske for her sophomore release, Bon Voyage. Prochet joins a particularly stubborn Top 10 where our Top 9 carry over from last week and no album moves up or down more than a couple spots. In stark contrast, her Fat Possum release hurtles ahead 98-10.
Three albums debuted within three spots of each other for the highest debut on the NACC 200 this week. Coming in a close second (45) and third (46) were Lykki Li and Johnny Marr (who we will get to momentarily), but scoring the highest debut of the week at #43 is Shannon Shaw, front-woman for Shannon & The Clams, who teamed up with Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach for her solo debut that Pitchfork describes as “a diamond: it sounds like Roy Orbison and his musicians lost in the Brill Building.” This solo effort does not mean The Clams are over. In fact, Auerbach has signed them to his Easy Eye Sound label.
New York City-based trio Interpol achieve a feat we’ve never seen on the NACC 200 this week. We’ve had a couple artists (LCD Soundsystem & Beck) land the highest debut with advance songs from a yet-to-be-released album, but never have we had a single as the biggest climber on the chart. “The Rover” is the first song to be released from Interpol’s upcoming sixth LP, Marauder, and it sails from 166-55 on the NACC 200 this week. Their new Matador release will see daylight on August 24th. It was produced by Dave Fridmann (who has helmed most of The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev’s releases along with a slew of others). The band will begin a North American tour in August with dates that run right through into October.
NACC’s most-added record this week comes from the legendary (and aforementioned) Johnny Marr. From 1982-1987 Marr was the guitarist and co-songwriter for The Smiths (who NME hailed as “the most influential pop artists of the last 50 years” in a 2002 survey). Marr went on to play in a number of other bands including The Pretenders, The The, Electronic (with New Order lead singer Bernard Sumner), Modest Mouse & The Cribs. Mojo Magazine has called him “arguably Britain’s last great guitar stylist” and NME recently honored him with it’s “Godlike Genius” award. Marr’s solo career didn’t start until 2013, but he has now released three albums, including Call The Comet, on his own New Voodoo imprint, a record which has been hailed by critics (including The Guardian just the other day) as his best solo release yet.
** NACC 200 Chart: Top 5 ADDS
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# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) JOHNNY MARR Call The Comet [New Voodoo] //80//
2) MOURN Sopresa Familia [Secretly Canadian] //68//
3) MOMMA Interloper [Danger Collective] //56//
4) ESSEX GREEN, THE Hardly Electronic [Merge] //50//
5) KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up [Bayonet] //47//
#1 On NACC Genre Charts:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: NEKO CASE Hell-On [Anti-]
NACC NEXT: COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel [Mom + Pop]
ELECTRONIC: SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations [Wichita]
HEAVY: GHOST Prequelle [Concord/Loma Vista]
HIP HOP: POTATOHEAD PEOPLE Nick & Astro’s Guide To The Galaxy [Bastard Jazz]
JAZZ: KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles [Blue Note]
FOLK: JOHN PRINE The Tree Of Forgiveness [Oh Boy]
WORLD: BOMBINO Deran [Partisan]
NEW AGE: RAVI SHANKAR & ALI AKBAR KHAN In Concert 1972 [HariSongs/Craft/Concord]
Most-Added @ NACC Genre:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC (tie): CLAPTONE Fantast [PIAS]
LEON VYNEHALL Nothing Is Still [Ninja Tune]
FOLK: INDIGO GIRLS Live With The University Of
Colorado Symphony Orchestra [Concord]
HEAVY: SHYLMAGOGHNAR Transience [Napalm]
HIP HOP: POTATOHEAD PEOPLE “Nick & Astro’s Guide To The Galaxy [Bastard Jazz]
JAZZ: LENNY MARCUS TRIO Gloria’s Step [Self-Released]
WORLD: BARRIO MANOUCHE Aires de Cambio [double0one]
NACC Singles:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: INTERPOL “The Rover” [Matador]
#1 MOST-ADDED SINGLE: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Gold Rush” [Atlantic]