After soaring from 24-1 last week on the NACC 200, Aukland, New Zealand quartet, The Beths digs in even deeper this week, building a lead over five times what it was last week over Built To Spill, the #2 artist on the chart these last two weeks. In fact, their third studio effort, Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark), has the highest total for a #1 album since Wet Leg’s third week at #1 the first week of May. The only question now is just how long their #1 run will continue. Watch this space.
Only one new album reaches the NACC Top 10 this week (though Panda Bear & Sonic Boom do rebound 11-9). It comes from last week’s most-added album, God Save The Animals (Domino) by Pennsylvania’s own Alex Giannascoli, who records as Alex G. His ninth studio album soars from #61 to #6 on the NACC 200 this week.
Sudan Archives reaches the NACC Top 5 this week, up 8-5, with her second LP, Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw). Cincinnati-born, LA-based violinist and singer Brittney Parks released her first music as Sudan Archives in 2017 releasing two EPs before her debut LP, Athena, in 2019. Hers is the only album to reach the Top 5 this week.
The only album in the NACC Top 10 that we have not yet featured comes from Ginger Root. Ginger Root is a project from Huntington, CA singer and instrumentalist Cameron Lew. Lew began Ginger Root in 2017 and has released a whopping seven LPs and three EPs, including this latest effort, Nisemono (Acrophase). The EP spends a second week in the Top 10 this week, moving 9-10.
Longtime New York City-based trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fronted by Karen O, is back after a nine-year gap in albums. Their long-awaited fifth LP, Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group), explodes out of the gate this week, collecting more Top 10 Adds than any other new release. The album also scores the highest debut on the NACC 200 at #23 and soars onto the NACC Non-Comm Chart at #1.
English quartet Arctic Monkeys now have the third-longest stay on NACC Singles this year by spending a fourth week at #1 with “There’d Better Be A Mirror Ball,” the first single from the band’s forthcoming seventh LP, The Car (Domino), due October 21. Brooklyn-based LCD Soundsystem, fronted by DFA Records co-founder James Murphy, takes ‘most-added single’ honors with “New Body Rhumba,” a song recorded for the soundtrack to the movie White Noise.
The current Top 5 overall NACC Adds, the genre chart-toppers, and the week’s most-added genre records are included below. There are new #1s at NACC Non-Comm, NACC NEXT, NACC Canadian, Jazz, and Folk.
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS
1) YEAH YEAH YEAHS Cool It Down [Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group] // 56
2*) MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER Unfold [Fat Possum] // 54
2*) TITUS ANDRONICUS The Will To Live [Merge] // 54
4) MAMALARKY Pocket Fantasy [Fire Talk] // 48
5) PIXIES Doggerel [BMG] // 46
*denotes a tie
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT
1) YEAH YEAH YEAHS Cool It Down [Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group] // 23
2) TOLEDO How It Ends [Grand Jury] // 51
3) MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER Unfold [Fat Possum] // 65
4) FUTURE TEENS Self Help [Triple Crown] // 67
5) DE LUX Do You Need A Release? [Innovative Leisure] // 75
NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS
# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE
1) GOGOL BORDELLO SOLIDARITINE [Cooking Vinyl] // 128
2) MAGDALENA BAY Mercurial World Deluxe [Luminelle] // 126
3) ICEAGE Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021 [Mexican Summer] // 101
4) RHETT MILLER The Misfit [ATO] // 87
5) STATUS/NON-STATUS Surely Travel [You’ve Changed] // 60
#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
NON-COMM: YEAH YEAH YEAHS Cool It Down [Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group]
NACC NEXT: BETHS, THE Expert In A Dying Field [Carpark]
BLUES: SHEMEKIA COPELAND Done Come Too Far [Alligator]
CANADIAN: KIWI JR Chopper [Sub Pop]
CHILL: LIMINAL DRIFTER Cortisol 22 [Hidden Shoal]
ELECTRONIC: HOT CHIP Freakout/Release [Domino]
FOLK: WATKINS FAMILY HOUR Vol. II [Family Hour/Thirty Tigers]
HEAVY: MEGADEATH The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! [UMe]
HIP HOP: DANGER MOUSE AND BLACK THOUGHT Cheat Codes [BMG]
JAZZ: HENRY FRANKLIN, ADRIAN YOUNGE, AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Henry Franklin JID014 [Jazz Is Dead]
LATIN: ADRIAN QUESADA Boleros Psicodélicos [ATO]
R&B/SOUL: SUDAN ARCHIVES Natural Brown Prom Queen [Stones Throw]
WORLD: KOKOROKO Could You Be More [Brownswood]
MOST-ADDED @ NACC GENRES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
ELECTRONIC: SHYGIRL Nymph [Because]
FOLK (tie): SETH AVETT “Good Morning Coffee” (Single) [Ramseur/Thirty Tigers]
TYLER CHILDERS Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven? [RCA]
HEAVY: QUEENSRYCHE Digital Noise Alliance [Century Media]
HIP HOP: HAVIAH MIGHTY “Honey Bun” (Single) [Self-Released]
JAZZ: BOBBY WATSON Back Home In Kansas City [Smoke Sessions]
WORLD: ACID ARAB “Halim Guelil” feat. Cheb Halim [Crammed Discs]
NACC SINGLES:
GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]
#1 SINGLE: ARCTIC MONKEYS “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball” [Domino]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM “late night rhumba” [Columbia/Sony]