Chicano Batman ends Fiona Apple’s impressive five week stint at #1 this week and lands their first NACC 200 chart-topper with Invisible People (ATO Records). The LA-based band of Eduardo Arenas, Carlos Arévalo, Bardo Martinez, and Gabriel Villa (all original members) formed in 2008 and their fourth LP rises 2-1 on the big chart this week.
Four artists rise into the NACC Top 10 this week: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down jumps 17-7, Diet Cig moves 11-8, and STRFKR climbs 13-9. But it’s San Bernadino, CA native Moses Sumney (now based in Asheville, NC) who makes the biggest climb into the top tier with his sophomore LP, græ. The Jagjaguwar release leaps 29-10 this week.
Last week’s most-added record makes this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200. It comes from San Francisco band Deerhoof. Their sixteenth LP, Future Teenage Cave Artists (Joyful Noise), soars 164-15 on the chart this week.
Mississauga, ON musician Michael James Owen Pallett has released his surprise fifth LP, Island (Domino), his first album in six years. Pallett began recording under the name Final Fantasy and his second LP, He Poos Clouds, won the Polaris Music Prize in 2006. He began recording simply as Owen Pallett on his subsequent three LPs. Island is this week’s highest debut at #37.
The most-added album this week, by far, is the new release from Melbourne, Australia quintet, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Sideways To New Italy, the band’s second LP (Sub Pop), collects 68 Top 10 Adds this week, a full 23 more adds than the #2 most-added record. The album has also debuted at #88 on the NACC 200 this week.
Killer Mike and El-P, who record as Run The Jewels, take over #1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week with “Ooh La La” b/w “The Yankee And The Brave” just ahead of Friday’s release of their fourth LP, RTJ4. El Paso, TX band Cigarettes After Sex has the most-added single of the week with their first release of 2020, “You’re All I Want.”
The NACC Top 5 overall Adds, this week’s genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new #1s at Hip Hop, Heavy, and Folk along with a return to #1 at Jazz.
NACC 200 CHART : TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Sideways To New Italy [Sub Pop] //68//
2) NO AGE Goons Be Gone [Drag City] //45//
3) WOODS Strange To Explain [Woodsist] //44//
4) VARSITY Fine Forever [Run For Cover] //35//
5) CHRISTIAN LEE HUTSON Beginners [Anti-] //34//
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Epic]
NACC NEXT: CAR SEAT HEADREST Making A Door Less Open [Matador/Beggars]
BLUES: CRYSTAL SHAWANDA Church House Blues [True North]
CANADIAN: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
CHILL: THIEVERY CORPORATION Symphonik [ESL]
ELECTRONIC: CARIBOU Suddenly [Merge]
FOLK: LAURA MARLING Song For Our Daughter [Chrysalis/Partisan]
HEAVY: HAVOK V [Century Media]
HIP HOP: SHABAZZ PALACES The Don Of Diamond Dreams [Sub Pop]
JAZZ: KANDACE SPRINGS The Women That Raised Me [Blue Note]
LATIN: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
R&B/SOUL: THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is [Brainfeeder]
WORLD: LIDO PIMENTA Miss Colombia [Anti-]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: LIMINAL DRIFTER Connected [Hidden Shoal]
FOLK: INDIGO GIRLS Look Long [Rounder]
HEAVY: ALESTORM Curse Of The Crystal Coconut [Napalm]
HIP HOP: LITTLE SIMZ Drop 6 (EP) [AGE101/AWAL]
JAZZ (tie): DAN WILENSKY All In All [Self-Released]
DONNA SINGER Set Your Heart Free [Emerald Baby]
KARI VAN DER KLOOT The Architects [Next Level]
WORLD: ZENOBIA Halak Halak [Acid Arab/Crammed]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: RUN THE JEWELS
“Ooh La La” b/w “The Yankee And The Brave” [Jewel Runners]
#1 ADDED SINGLE: CIGARETTES AFTER SEX “You’re All I Want” [Partisan]