Mitski is owning the NACC 200. Her fifth release, Be The Cowboy, spends a fourth week on top. It’s the fifth album to spend four or more weeks at #1 this year. This time last year only two albums had logged four or more weeks on top and the year ended with four total. Mitski started her professional musical career while studying at Purchase College’s Conservatory Of Music self-releasing her first two albums. Since she graduated she’s released three more albums, her third on Double Double Whammy and her two most recent on Dead Oceans. Next week, Mitski will try to grab her fifth week on top (something only one other record has done this year and only three have done overall on the NACC 200). Death Cab For Cutie (2-2), Blood Orange (5-3), Wild Nothing (4-4), and Iron & Wine (15-6) will try to stop her.
Joining Iron & Wine as the two new entries in the Top 10 this week is a record-breaker. Last week’s most-added album from Spiritualized makes the biggest climb into the NACC Top 10 we’ve ever seen, skyrocketing 129-9. It’s only the second time any record has climbed from outside the top half of the chart into the Top 10 (the other coming last year from Chastity Belt). And Nothing Hurt, out on Fat Possum, is the band’s eighth LP. Of the five most recent Spiritualized albums aggregated on Metacritic, this latest release is the best reviewed of the bunch.
The NACC 200’s biggest climber this week comes from Nashville duo JEFF The Brotherhood. Brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall formed the band (originally just called JEFF) in 2001 while they were in high school. Magick Songs is the brothers’ thirteenth LP, out on Dine Alone Records, and the duo has expanded to a quartet with this release adding guitarist Kunal Prakash and Dead Weather/Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence. Magick Songs races from 153-31 on the chart this week.
The week’s highest debut comes from Toronto four-piece Dilly Dally. Fronted by guitarist and vocalist Katie Monks, the band released their debut LP, Sore, in 2015. In the three years since, the band has fought demons (one member went to rehab) and Monks ended up writing alone for a year, dealing with the booze-filled life that has stressed the band on the road. The result is Heaven (out on Partisan Records) an album of positivity, empowerment and redemption. And it is this week’s highest new entry at #33.
This week’s most added record is the fourth release from Boston trio, Slothrust. Formed in 2010 by singer/guitarist Leah Bellbaum and bassist Kyle Bann while attending Sarah Lawrence College, Will Gorin later joined the band on drums. The Pact is the Slothrust’s second album for Dangerbird Records and follows 2016’s Everyone Else. It’s off to a rousing start collecting the most Top 10 adds since our current #1 from Mitski and has already debuted on the current NACC 200 at #39.
With last week’s #1 single from Phosphorescent ‘graduating’ from the NACC Singles Chart this week (with the release of a second song from the upcoming C’est La Vie), Radiohead lead-singer, Thom Yorke debuts at #1 on this week’s NACC Singles Chart with “Suspirium,” the first taste of the score he recorded for the movie Suspiria, a two-disc set that is expected October 26th. This week’s most-added single comes from renowned producer and former Vampire Weekend member, Rostam. “In A River” is a song he began playing live during his tour supporting last year’s Half-Light LP.
You can find the Top 5 of the NACC Adds Chart and all of this week’s #1 genre releases and most-added genre records below. This week there are new #1s at World, Hip Hop, Electronic, Chill, and a return to #1 at Blues. Your eyes don’t have to be the only way you experience NACC’s musical highlights. Follow the ‘College Radio Weekly Highlights’ playlist on Spotify (here) and let your ears in on the action too.
NACC 200 Chart: Top 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) SLOTHRUST The Pact [Dangerbird] //95//
2) LOW Double Negative [Sub Pop] //75//
3) BABE RAINBOW, THE Double Rainbow [30th Century] //67//
4*) APHEX TWIN Collapse (EP) [Warp] //66//
4*) GOOD SAX, THE We’re Not Talking [Wichita] //66//
* denotes tie
#1 On NACC Genre Charts:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Thank You For Today [Atlantic]
NACC NEXT: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Thank You For Today [Atlantic]
HEAVY: PIG DESTROYER Head Cage [Relapse]
ELECTRONIC: DORIAN CONCEPT The Nature Of Imitation [Brainfeeder]
HIP HOP: CHANCE THE RAPPER Four New Songs [Self-Released]
JAZZ: KAMASI WASHINGTON Heaven And Eart [Young Turks]
FOLK: ROBBIE FULKS & LINDA GAIL LEWIS Wild! Wild! Wild! [Bloodshot]
WORLD: JUPITER AND OKWESS Kin Sonic [Everloving]
CHILL: DARRELL KELLEY “Unity” [Self-Released]
BLUES: SHAMEKIA COPELAND America’s Child [Alligator]
LATIN: CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Bienadventuranza [Wonderwheel]
Most-Added @ NACC Genre:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC (tie): BOB MOSES Battle Lines [Domino]
DIRTY VEGAS Days Go By (The Retrospective) [New State]
FOLK (tie): HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD
Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 [Free Dirt]
WILL COURTNEY Crazy Love [Super Secret]
HEAVY: VOIVOD The Wake [Century Media]
HIP HOP: RAH CASHINO “Bandz” (Single) [Self-Released]
JAZZ: CHRISTIAN SANDS Facing Dragons [Mack Avenue]
WORLD: RIO MIRA Marimba Del Pacifico [AYA]
NACC Singles:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: THOM YORKE “Suspirium” [XL]
#1 MOST-ADDED SINGLE: ROSTAM “In A River” [Matsor Projects]