Japanese Breakfast went into the summer break with two weeks at #1 on the NACC 200 under their collective belts. The band, which includes wife and husband team Michelle Launer and Peter Bradley, have crossed the week off and kept their hold on the top spot with third LP, Jubilee (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group). They’ll have some stiff competition in their quest to nab a fourth week on top with fast charging albums from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (6-2) and Modest Mouse (13-3) nipping at their heels.
Four new albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. Lucy Dacus jumps 19-7, The Mountain Goats sail 56-10, and the aforementioned Modest Mouse reach the Top 3 in just their second week on the chart. But it’s Beatrice Laus, who records as Beabadoobee, that makes the biggest climb, leaping 65-9 with her new collaborative release. She teamed up with the 1975’s Matt Healy and George Daniel, who produced and co-wrote the four song EP, Our Extended Play (Dirty Hit) with Laus. It follows her debut LP, Fake It Flowers, last year that reached #1 on the NACC 200.
The chart’s highest debut this week comes from Poughkeepsie five-piece Spud Cannon. The lovers of starchy tubers (and the apparent launching of them) formed in 2016 at Vassar College. Their third full-length album, Good Kids Make Bad Apples (out on Brooklyn Indie label Good Eye Records), leaps 155-16 on the NACC 200 this week.
Brooklyn-based quartet Pom Pom Squad enjoys this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200 with their debut LP, Death Of A Cheerleader (City Slang). Begun in 2015 as a solo project for lead singer Mia Berrin, who has also released two EPs along the way, their new album soars from 155-16 this week besting the next biggest climber by 20 positions.
Nandi Rose Plunkett, who records as Half Waif, returns to our chart recap by collecting more adds than anyone else this week with her fifth LP, Mythopoetics (Anti-). Plunkett, who also contributes to her husband’s band Pinegrove, was most recently included in our chart recap for scoring the highest debut of the week with her 2020 LP, The Caretaker.
Los Angeles quartet Illuminati Hotties climb 4-1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week with “Pool Hopping,” one of two preview tracks from their upcoming third LP, Let Me Do One More, due October 1. Scoring the most adds of the singles that added this week is Gorillaz and Blur’s Damon Albarn. The first single from his forthcoming third solo LP, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (due Nov. 12), is “Polaris.”
This week’s Top 5 overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. In addition to returns to #1 on the NACC Blues and Chill Charts, there are new chart-toppers at Heavy, Hip Hop, Latin, and Electronic this week.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) HALF WAIF Mythopoetics [Anti-] // 57
2) HIATUS KAIYOTE Mood Valiant [Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune] // 48
3) GO TEAM, THE Get Up Sequences Part One [Memphis Industries] // 47
4) A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Hologram (EP) [Self-Released] // 56
5) MURLOCS, THE Bittersweet Demons [ATO] // 39
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) SPUD CANNON Good Kids Make Bad Apples [Good Eye] // 14
2) L’RAIN Fatigue [Mexican Summer] // 25
3) MOTHER MOTHER Inside [Warner] // 27
4) SPELLLING The Turning Wheel [Sacred Bones] // 28
5) LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND Banned [Anti-] // 35
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) POM POM SQUAD Death Of A Cheerleader [City Slang] // 139
2) HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Quietly Blowing It [Merge] // 119
3) SAULT Nine [Forever Living Originals] // 111
4) LIZ PHAIR Soberish [Chrysalis] // 102
5) FAYE WEBSTER I Know I’m Funny haha [Dead Oceans/Secretly Group] // 86
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: MODEST MOUSE The Golden Casket [Epic]
NACC NEXT: MODEST MOUSE The Golden Casket [Epic]
BLUES: ROBERT FINLEY Sharecropper’s Son [Easy Eye Sound/Concord]
CANADIAN: TEKE::TEKE Shirushi [Kill Rock Stars]
CHILL: BILL NELSON Dazzelbox [Self-Released]
ELECTRONIC: AVALANCHES, THE Since I Left You (20th Anniversary Deluxe) [Astrawerks]
FOLK: ALLISON RUSSELL Outside Child [Fantasy/Concord]
HEAVY: HELLOWEEN Helloween [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: GREENTEA PENG Man Made [EMI]
JAZZ: JULIEN LAGE Squint [Blue Note]
LATIN: VARIOUS ARTISTS Change: The Sound Of Guantanamo [Petaluma]
R&B/SOUL: ALLISON RUSSELL Outside Child [Fantasy/Concord]
WORLD: MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime [Matador/Beggars Group]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: MATVEI Spring Collection (EP) [Kitsune]
FOLK: MICHAEL J MILES New Century Suite [Self-Released]
HEAVY: ERADICATOR Influence Denied [Metalville]
HIP HOP: TOUSSAINT MORRISON Social Science Club [Urban Home Companion]
JAZZ: KYLE ASCHE ORGAN TRIO Five Down Blues [Cellar]
WORLD: VARIOUS ARTISTS Change: The Sound Of Guantanamo [Petaluma]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: ILLUMINATI HOTTIES “Pool Hopping” [Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: DAMON ALBARN “Polaris” [Transgressive/PIAS]