A trio of new albums raced up behind Shannon & The Clams last week, lining up at #2, #3, and #4. All three of those albums push past our NACC 200 #1 these past two weeks. It was a thrilling neck-and-neck battle with #1 changing hands numerous times in the last hour of reporting. In the end Duluth, MN duo Low edged out Australian quartet Amyl & The Sniffers for the top spot. The wife and husband duo of Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk reaches #1 on the NACC 200 for the first time with their 13th LP, HEY WHAT (Sub Pop).

Only one album broke through into the NACC 200’s Top 10 this week, but it was an impressive move nonetheless. Last week’s most-added and highest-debuting album from Swedish folk artist Jose González leaps 41-6. His fourth LP, Local Valley (Mute), also wastes no time reaching the top of the NACC Non-Comm Chart where it soars 10-1.

The NACC 200’s highest debut this week is a collaborative album from folk artists Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine. This is the fourth collaborative album for Stevens (and his 13th overall LP) and the first for De Augustine (and his fourth overall LP). A Beginner’s Mind (out of Stevens’s own Asthmatic Kitty imprint) is a concept album with each track inspired by a different movie of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to scoring this week’s highest debut at #26, the album ties for most-added honors as well.

Debuting one spot behind Stevens and De Augustine is the Chicago psych-pop quartet Mild High Club. It’s been five years since the band’s most recent solo effort Skiptracing and four years since their last release, a collaborative album with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard called Sketches Of Brunswick East. Their fourth studio album, Going Going Gone (Stones Throw) opens at #27.

Tying for the most-added release of the week (along with the aforementioned album from Stevens and DeAugustine) is Canadian singer Ada Lea. Her sophomore release, one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden (Saddle Creek) follows last year’s slightly more succinctly titled debut, woman. Lea collects 64 Top 10 Adds and debuts on the NACC 200 at #89 this week.

Last week’s most-added single from Snail Mail quickly becomes the new #1 atop the NACC Singles Chart. “Valentine” leaped onto NACC Singles at #10 last week and zips to #1 this week. LA-quartet Winnetka Bowling League lands this week’s most-added single (of the 54 that went for adds) with their new single “pulp.” It’s the title track from their forthcoming fourth EP due out later this year.

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 a return to #1 on the NACC Canadian Chart, there are new chart-toppers at NACC NEXT, NACC Non-Comm, Electronic, World, and R&B/Soul this week.

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS

1*) ADA LEA one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden [Saddle Creek] // 64
1*) SUFJAN STEVENS & ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE A Beginner’s Mind [Asthmatic Kitty] // 64
3) SHIVAS, THE Feels So Foos // Feels So Bad [Tender Loving Empire] // 50
4*) GREETING COMMITTEE, THE Dandelion [UMG] // 39
4*) LAURA JANE GRACE At Was With The Silverfish (EP) [Polyvinyl] // 39
4*) METRONOMY Posse EP, Volume 1 [Becasue] // 39
*denotes a tie

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT

1) SUFJAN STEVENS & ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE A Beginner’s Mind [Asthmatic Kitty] // 26
2) YEBBA Going Going Gone [RCA] // 27
3) SAINT ETIENNE I’ve Been Trying To Tell You [Heavenly/PIAS] // 42
4) BOY WILLOWS BANGS (EP) [Nettwerk] // 46
5) ASHLEY SHADOW Only The End [Felte] // 57

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE

1) WAR ON DRUGS, THE “I Don’t Live Here Anymore” (Single) [Atlantic] // 139
2) YEBBA Dawn [RCA] // 134
3) SNAIL MAIL “Valentine” (Single) [Matador] // 125
4) NORDISTA FREEZE Big Sky Pipe Dream [Self-Released] // 86
5) GARZA Daydream Accelerator [Magnetic Moon] // 81

#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

NON-COMM: JOSE GONZALEZ Local Valley [Mute]
NACC NEXT: LOW HEY WHAT [Sub Pop]
BLUES: TOMMY CASTRO Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town [Alligator]
CANADIAN: HALLUCI NATION, THE One More Saturday Night [Radicalized]
CHILL: CHRONOTOPE PROJECT Gnosis [Spotted Peccary]
ELECTRONIC: PARK HYE JIN Before I Die [Ninja Tune]
FOLK: SIERRA FERRELL Long Time Coming [Rounder/Concord]
HEAVY: IRON MAIDEN Senjutsu [BMG]
HIP HOP: LITTLE SIMZ Sometimes I Might Be Introvert [AGE 101]
JAZZ: KENNY GARRETT Sounds From The Ancestors [Mack Avenue]
LATIN: BOMBA ESTEREO Deja [Sony Latin]
R&B/SOUL: YOLA Stand For Myself [Easy Eye Sound/Concord]
WORLD: BOMBA ESTEREO Deja [Sony Latin]

MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

ELECTRONIC: BEN BOHMER Begin Again [Anjunadeep]
FOLK: BUFFALO NICHOLS “How To Love” (Single) [Fat Possum]
HEAVY: MINISTRY Moral Hygeine [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: KUF KNOTZ AND CHRISTINE ELISE Ké Myōōnėdé (Community) [Hightide]
JAZZ: ARTURO O’FARRILL Dreaming In Lions [Blue Note]
WORLD: SHUJAAT HUSAIN KHAN, KATAYOUN GOUDARZI, SHAHO ANDALIBI, AND SHARI
This Pale [Lycood]

NACC SINGLES:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

#1 SINGLE: SNAIL MAIL “Valentine” [Matador]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: WINNETKA BOWLING LEAGUE “Pulp” [RCA]