Karin Dreijer (aka Fever Ray) locks down the #1 spot on the NACC 200 for a second week with her second solo album, Plunge. The Mute Records release is a highly visual album which Dreijer explains in detail along with her visual partner Martin Falck in a new article in Stereogum. As tipped here last week, Fever Ray has a number of new North American tour dates starting with two shows at the Red Bull Music Festival in New York May 12 & 13 and continuing throughout major cities until it wraps in California at the Lightning In A Bottle Festival at the end of May. With former number ones stacked up at #2 and 3 on the NACC 200, Fever Ray doesn’t seem to have any immediate threat for the top spot, but you never know.
Only one new record reaches the NACC Top 10 this week. It comes from Death Of Lovers, who race ahead from 11-5. We featured the band once before here when they were NACC’s most-added album the week of December 5th. Death Of Lovers is three of the four members of the band Nothing along with keyboardist CC Loo. They channel The Cure, Joy Division and Flock of Seagulls with an 80s drenched, post-punk soundscape on The Acrobat that is clearing connecting with radio.
Bounding onto the NACC 200 this week at #18 are Umeå, Sweden garage rock band Spice Boys. Formed in 2015, member Sebastian Holmlund came up with the band name and decided it was too good to not to use. Out on Stockholm label PNKSLM, the band’s first LP, Glade, is a follow-up to their 2016 debut EP, Spice City.
Enjoying the NACC 200’s biggest climb this week is a two-disc opus celebrating legendary radio personality and novelty songwriter Dr. Demento. Dr. Demento Covered In Punk features a bevy of eclectic musicians including Joan Jett, William Shatner, Shonen Knife, The Dead Milkmen, “Weird Al” Yankovic, The B-52’s Fred Schneider, and the late, great Adam West. Over thirty different all-new punk cover versions of music and comedy songs famously heard on the airwaves of the Dr Demento Show have been intermixed with tracks showcasing ‘demented’ versions of punk-rock classics. It’s an original outing that finds itself racing from 158-66 on the NACC 200 this week.
The most-added record of the week comes from PORCHES. The synth-pop band is the brainchild of Aaron Maine and formed in Pleasantville, NY in 2010. Out on Domino Records, The House is the band’s third LP and is poised for a huge jump on the NACC 200 next week after sneaking on at #168 this week.
You can view the Top 20 of the NACC 200 below as well as all of this week’s #1s. There are actually no new #1s on the NACC Charts this week, though Fever Ray does return to the top of the Electronic Chart.
NACC 200 Chart: Top 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) PORCHES The House [Domino] //84//
2) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS I Like Fun [Idlewild] //76//
3) BOYO Me, Again [Danger Collective] //59//
4*) DE LUX More Disco Songs About Love [Innovative Leisure] //53//
4*) GLEN HANSARD Between Two Shores [Anti-] //53//
* denotes tie
#1 On NACC Genre Charts:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS Soul Of A Woman [Daptone]
NACC NEXT: FEVER RAY Plunge [Mute]
ELECTRONIC: FEVER RAY Plunge [Mute]
HEAVY: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY No Cross No Crown [Nuclear Blast]
HIP HOP: SHREDDERS Dangerous Jumps [Doomtree]
JAZZ: DR. LONNIE SMITH All In My Mind [Blue Note]
FOLK: MAVIS STAPLES If All I Was Was Black [Anti-]
WORLD: BOUBACAR TRAORE Dounia Tabolo [LusAfrica]