Low, the Duluth, MN duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, reaches a fourth straight week at #1 on the NACC 200 week with their 13th LP, HEY WHAT (Sub Pop). The album, although decreasing in points again this week, slightly increases its lead over the other albums challenging them for #1. They also now have one of the five longest-running #1s of 2021. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine (4-2), Illuminati Hotties (8-5), and Andy Shauf (15-6) will challenge Low for the top spot next week.
Two albums reach the NACC 200’s Top 10 this week. One is last week’s highest debut from Hovvdy, rising 11-7. The other is the aforementioned Andy Shauf. The Saskatchewan native returns to the NACC Top 10 with his seventh solo LP, Wilds (Anti-). It follows last year’s NACC 200 chart-topper, The Neon Skyline. Shauf is in search of his third NACC 200 #1 as he also reached #1 in 2018 with his band Foxwarren.
Enjoying this week’s highest debut is punk trio Destroy Boys. Formed in Sacramento in 2015 by Alexia Roditis and Violet Mayugba, the band’s name comes from words that Mayugba wrote on her chalkboard at home while going through relationship issues. The band’s third studio album, Open Mouth, Open Heart (Hopeless) leaps aboard the NACC 200 this week at #22.
Making the second-biggest climb within the NACC Top 20 this week and climbing dangerously close to the Top 10 is Toronto band Ducks Ltd. Not to be confused with the conservation nonprofit Ducks Unlimited (which is actually what the band’s name used to be… and probably the reason it no longer is), the waterfowl lovers turned poo-pooers rise 19-11 with Modern Fiction (Carpark), their debut LP.
San Francisco quartet Deerhoof takes most-added honors this week with their eighteenth LP, Actually, You Can (Joyful Noise). Greg Saunier and Rob Fisk formed the band in 1994 with lead singer Satomi Matsuzaki joining the band a year later within a week of moving to the US from Japan with no previous experience in a band. The album collects 74 Top 10 Adds this week and should make a splashy NACC 200 debut next week.
The new single from Mitski, “Working For The Knife” races 12-1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week. It’s her first new music since 2018 and came with a video and an announcement of a tour that kicks off in February of 2022. Seattle outfit Band Of Horses returns after an even longer hiatus than Mitski. Their new single “Crutch,” is their first new music since 2016 and previews their sixth LP, Things Are Great, due January 21.
This week’s Top 5 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 NACC NEXT, NACC Canadian, Hip Hop, Electronic, and Blues, and returns to #1 at Jazz and Folk.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) DEERHOOF Actually, You Can [Joyful Noise] // 74
2) JULIA SHAPIRO Zorked [Suicide Squeeze] // 51
3) GUIDED BY VOICES It’s Not Them. I Couldn’t Be Them, It Is Them! [Self-Released] // 39
4*) CHURCH GIRLS Still Blooms [Anchor Eighty Four] // 34
4*) ODONIS ODONIS Spectrums [Felte] // 34
4*) SMALLPOOLS Life In A Simulation [OneRPM] // 34
4*) XENIA RUBINOS Una Rosa [Anti-] // 34
*denotes a tie
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) DESTROY BOYS Open Mouth, Open Heart [Hopeless] // 22
2) PORCHES All Day Gentle Hold ! [Domino] // 42
3) BADBADNOTGOOD Talk Memory [XL/Innovative Leisure] // 68
4) SILAS SHORT Drawing (EP) [Stones Throw] // 70
5) CAT POWER “Bad Religion” (Single) [Domino] // 84
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) VELVETEERS, THE “Nightmare Daydream [Easy Eye Sound] // 117
2) MATT MALTESE Good Morning It’s Not Tomorrow [Nettwerk] // 106
3) BOY SCOUTS Wayfinder [Anti-] // 96
4) RECORD COMPANY, THE Play Loud [Concord] // 91
5) LALA LALA I Want The Door To Open [Hardly Art] // 89
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: JOSE GONZALEZ Any Shape You Take [Saddle Creek]
NACC NEXT: INDIGO DE SOUZA Glow On [Roadrunner]
BLUES: SUE FOLEY Pinky’s Blues [Stony Plain]
CANADIAN: ADA LEA one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden [Saddle Creek]
CHILL: BILLIE EILISH Happier Than Ever [Darkroom/Interscope]
ELECTRONIC: MACHINEDRUM Psyconia (EP) [Ninja Tune]
FOLK: SIERRA FERRELL Long Time Coming [Rounder/Concord]
HEAVY: IRON MAIDEN Senjutsu [BMG]
HIP HOP:COMMON A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2 [Loma Vista/Concord]
JAZZ: KENNY GARRETT Sounds From The Ancestors [Mack Avenue]
LATIN: BOMBA ESTEREO Deja [Sony Latin]
R&B/SOUL: ALLERGIES, THE Promised Land [Jalapeno]
WORLD: BOMBA ESTEREO Deja [Sony Latin]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: ANZ All Hours (EP) [Ninja Tune]
FOLK (tie): ANDREA VON KAMPEN That Spell [Fantasy/Concord]
DORI FREEMAN Ten Thousand Roses [Blue Hens]
NORMAN BLAKE Day By Day [Smithsonian Folkways]
HEAVY (tie): 1914 When Fear And Weapons Meet [Napalm]
CRADLE OF FILTH Existence Is Futile [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP (tie): SHAKKA Road Trip To Venus [Westbourne]
TONE CHOP AND FROST GAMBLE One Two [Self-Released]
JAZZ: ED NEUMEISTER What Have I Done? [Meistro]
WORLD: ORQUESTRA AKOKAN 16 Rayos [Daptone]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: MITSKI “Working For The Knife” [Dead Oceans]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: BAND OF HORSES “Crutch” [BMG]