Happy 1st birthday to our NACC Wednesday Chart Recap!

Make it three weeks on top for Soccer Mommy. Her Fat Possum release, Clean, rules the NACC 200 again this week. We’re running out of things to say since this album has now been featured on our recap for the last five weeks. The internet is abuzz about the release of the “Cool” video yesterday. And upcoming tour dates with Speedy Ortiz and Liz Phair are on the horizon. Next week will offer Soccer Mommy’s biggest competition for the top spot as Ought (2-2) and Superorganism (10-3) close in.

Also setting themselves up for a run at #1 is this week’s biggest climb into the NACC Top 10. It’s last week’s highest overall chart debut, The Decemberists. They soar from 38-5 this week with their eighth album, I’ll Be Your Girl, out on Capitol Records. The album just became their third to debut inside the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 Album Chart, opening at #9 this week.

Calgary post-punk quartet Preoccupations is back with their appropriately titled third album, New Material. The Jagjaguwar release is the band’s second since their name change. After debuting as Viet Cong in 2015, the band encountered a good deal of backlash over their name and formally changed it to Preoccupations in 2016. Their new album races ahead from 158-27 on the NACC 200 this week, scoring the biggest climb of the week.

Phil Elverum’s solo project, Mount Eerie, has returned with a second album in as many years. This ninth Mount Eerie release, Now Only, is a continuation thematically of last year’s A Crow Looked At Me, which dealt with the death of Elverum’s wife, cartoonist and musician Genevieve Castree in 2016. Released on his own P.W. Elverum & Sun imprint, the album is this week’s highest debut, opening at #45.

Dwarfing all other new adds this week is Frankie Cosmos, who grabs the most Top 10 adds since St. Vincent’s total in October of 2017. Frankie Cosmos is the stage name of Greta Kline, the former bassist for Porches and the daughter of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. Vessel is Kline’s third studio album and first for Sub Pop. Her 124 Top 10 adds this week bests the next closest add-getter, Jack White, by 49 adds. Her album has already debuted at #66 on the NACC 200 this week so expect a big jump next week.

There are also new chart-toppers this week at Non-Comm, Hip Hop, and Jazz!