Los Angeles-based trio, La Luz, holds roughly the same lead they had last week over their closest rival, The War On Drugs. Their eponymous LP (Hardly Art) and fourth studio album collects the second-most points of any #1 album has had dating back to early August. Only Low has had more in that time period in their second week at #1 in early October. But the gap between #1 and #2 isn’t huge so The War On Drugs (2-2) along with Snail Mail (22-4) will launch a fresh challenge for the top next week.
Speaking of Snail Mail (the name musician Lindsay Jordan records under), her second LP, Valentine (Matador) wastes no time positioning itself as a #1 challenger. The album, which is currently one of the Top 15 best-reviewed of the year according to Metacritic, soars 22-4, landing the biggest climb into the Top 10 this week. Snail Mail will be hitting the road just after Thanksgiving for a US Tour that will run until just before Christmas.
Also reaching the NACC Top 10 this week is the yin to Inspector Jacques Clouseau’s yang. London-based singer Gemma Parker, who records as PinkPantheress went viral less than a year ago on TikTok. Now signed to Parlophone, the University of the Arts London student’s debut LP, To Hell With It, leaps from 18-9. We featured PinkPantheress this week since the NACC 200’s biggest climber, for the third week-in-a-row, was found a bit down the chart. But kudos to Canadian band Gold & Youth for rising 199-99.
The week’s highest debut comes from Nation Of Language. The band’s name doesn’t give much insight as to what nation they are from given that all nations have a language. But despite that fact, our crack research team managed to discover that they are from the USA. To get even more specific, the trio is based in Brooklyn. Formed in 2016, the band has released two LPs, including their latest, A Way Forward, which soars onto the NACC 200 at #23. The album also makes an impressive debut inside the Top 10 at #8 on the NACC NEXT Chart.
Collecting 69 Top 10 Adds this week, the most of any release going for adds, is Idles. The five-piece UK band was formed in Bristol in 2009. Over the course of their time together they’ve released four studio albums. Their latest, Crawler (Partisan) handily takes most-added honors this week as well as landing inside the Top 5 debuts on the NACC 200, by opening at #42.
Austin-based band Spoon spends a second week at #1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week. “The Hardest Cut” has now reached higher than any other single has on the NACC 200 this year, rising 21-17 as well. It’s the first single from their upcoming 10th LP, Lucifer On The Sofa, due out February 11. Minneapolis quartet Night Moves lands the most-added single this week with “Fallacy Actually,” the first in a series of singles their label, Domino, states will be released over the next year.
This week’s top five overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new chart-toppers this week at Electronic, Jazz, Latin, Chill, and World and a return to #1 on Blues.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) IDLES Crawler [Partisan] // 69
2) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Book [Idlewild] // 55
3) DODOS, THE Grizzly Peak [Polyvinyl] // 45
4) MAKTHAVERSKAN For Allting [Run For Cover] // 43
5) BEACH HOUSE Chapter 1: Once Twice Melody (EP) [Sub Pop] // 37
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) NATION OF LANGUAGE A Way Forward [Play It Again Sam] // 23
2) COURTNEY BARNETT Things Take Time, Take Time [Mom+Pop/Marathon Artists] // 34
3) MUNYA Voyage To Mars [Luminelle] // 36
4) IDLES Crawler [Partisan] // 42
5) BEACH HOUSE Chapter 1: Once Twice Melody (EP) [Sub Pop] // 44
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) GOLD AND YOUTH Dream Baby [Paper Bag] // 100
2) TECHNICOLORS Cinema Sublimina [OneRPM] // 98
3) HOT GARBAGE RIDE [Mothland] // 85
4) SUSTO Time In The Sun [New West] // 82
5) CURTIS HARDING If Words Were Flowers [Anti-] // 74
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: WAR ON DRUGS, THE I Don’t Live Here Anymore [Atlantic]
NACC NEXT: WAR ON DRUGS, THE I Don’t Live Here Anymore [Atlantic]
BLUES: SUE FOLEY Pinky’s Blues [Stony Plain]
CANADIAN: ANDY SHAUF Wilds [Anti-]
CHILL: MARCONI UNION Signals [Just]
ELECTRONIC: ROSS FROM FRIENDS Tread [Brainfeeder]
FOLK: VARIOUS ARTISTS Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows:
Songs Of John Prine, Vol. 2 [Oh Boy/Thirty Tigers]
HEAVY: MASTODON Hushed And Grim [Reprise]
HIP HOP: SHAD TAO [Secret City]
JAZZ: NICHOLAS PAYTON Smoke Sessions [Smoke Sessions]
LATIN: QUANTIC AND NIDIA GONGORA Almas Conectadas [Tru Thoughts]
R&B/SOUL: VARIOUS ARTISTS DaptoneSuper Soul Revue – Live At The Apollo [Daptone]
WORLD: ORQUESTRA AKOKAN 16 Rayos [Daptone]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC (tie): KEYS N KRATES Original Classic [Last Gang]
LOGIC1000 In The Sweetness Of You (EP) [Therapy/Because]
FOLK: TOM FAIA AND KATE MILLER Whole Lotta Trouble [Self-Released]
HEAVY: CONVERGE Bloodmoon [Epitaph]
HIP HOP: KEYS N KRATES Original Classic [Last Gang]
JAZZ: KRISTEN R BROMLEY QUINTET Bluish Tide [KRBM]
WORLD: CEU Um Gosto De Sol [Urban Jungle]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: SPOON “The Hardest Cut” [Matador]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: NIGHT MOVES “Fallacy Actually” [Domino]