The top of the NACC 200 sees massive turnover this week with five new albums reaching the NACC Top 10. Records from Death Cab For Cutie (26-4), Sudan Archives (11-8), Ginger Root (18-9), and Two Door Cinema Club (16-10) all reach the top tier. But making the biggest and most impressive climb is last week’s most-added album from Aukland, New Zealand quartet, The Beths. Not only does their third studio effort, Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark), make the biggest climb into the Top 10, it makes the biggest climb to #1 this year, leaping 24-1, and gives The Beths their second straight NACC 200 #1. It’s the biggest climb to #1 in nearly two and a half years!

Last week’s highest debut didn’t get featured here so we’re making sure they receive the attention they deserved last week this time around! Orange County, CA rock band The Garden debuted at #23 on the NACC 200 last week and this week shimmy ahead to #16. Formed in 2011 by twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, the brothers were longtime members of the Burger Records roster (dating back to their previous band M.H.V.), but cut ties with Burger in 2020 after accusations of sexual misconduct at the label. Their fifth LP, Horseshit On Route 66. is their first self-released effort.

Soaring 200-28 on the NACC 200 this week is five-piece Austin, TX band The Black Angels. Over the course of their nearly 20-year career, the band has released six studio albums including their latest, Wilderness Of Mirrors (the second on Partisan Records). The band was one of the first we featured in our weekly chart recap with their previous effort, Death Song, which was also the week’s biggest climber in April of 2017.

Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré has teamed up with Houston trio Khruangbin for a collaborative effort called Ali (Dead Oceans/Secretly Group). The album is a tribute to Touré’s late father, musician Ali Farka Touré and celebrates his body of work. This is Touré’s tenth album and Khruangbin’s fourth. The album is this week’s highest debut on the NACC 200 at #36 and debuts at #6 on NACC World.

Pennsylvania native Alex Giannascoli, better known as Alex G, lands this week’s most-added record. Honestly, Alex G might be even better known as (Sandy) Alex G, but he did us a real solid in shortening his stage name to Alex G and making reporting his music to NACC a whole lot easier for stations! Thanks, Alex! His ninth LP, God Save The Animals (Domino), collects 70 Top 10 Adds this week and scores one of the Top 5 highest debuts on the NACC 200 at #61.

English quartet Arctic Monkeys pins down #1 on NACC Singles for a third straight week with “There’d Better Be A Mirror Ball,” the first single from the band’s forthcoming seventh LP, The Car (Domino), due October 21. Three singles tie for ‘most-added single’ honors this week: White Lung’s “Date Night” b/w “Tomorrow,” Floating Points “Problems,” and Hannah Jadagu’s “Say It Now.”

The current NACC Top 5 overall 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, Folk, and R&B/Soul, and returns to #1 at NACC Canadian and Blues.

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 ADDS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | # OF ADDS

1) ALEX G God Save The Animals [Domino] // 70
2) BETH ORTON Weather Alive [Partisan] // 54
3) TOLEDO How It Ends [Grand Jury] // 32
4) SHANNEN MOSER The Sun Still Seems To Move [Lame-O] // 30
5) ICEAGE Shake The FeelingL Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021 [Mexican Summer] // 29

 

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 DEBUTS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | DEBUT

1) VIEUX FARKA TOURE AND KHRUANGBIN Ali [Dead Oceans/Secretly Group] // 36
2) HEAVEN FOR REAL Energy Bar [Mint] // 49
3) MARCUS MUMFORD (self-titled) [Capitol] // 56
4) MURLOCS, THE Rapscallion [ATO] // 60
5) ALEX G God Save The Animals [Domino] // 61

 

NACC 200 CHART: TOP 5 CLIMBERS

# | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL | MOVE

1) BLACK ANGELS, THE Wilderness Of Mirrors [Partisan] // 172
2) STARCRAWLER She Said [Big Machine] // 118
3) FAKE PALSM Lemons [Hand Drawn Dracula] // 109
4) DANIELLE PONDER Some Of Us Are Brave [Future Classic] // 95
5) LOUNGE SOCIETY, THE Tired Of Liberty [Speedy Wunderground/PIAS] // 77

 

#1 ON NACC GENRE CHARTS:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

NON-COMM: BUILT TO SPILL When The Wind Forgets Your Name [Sub Pop]
NACC NEXT: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Asphalt Meadows [Atlantic]
BLUES: SHEMEKIA COPELAND Done Come Too Far [Alligator]
CANADIAN: SADIES, THE Colder Streams [Dine Alone/Yep Roc]
CHILL: LIMINAL DRIFTER Cortisol 22 [Hidden Shoal]
ELECTRONIC: HOT CHIP Freakout/Release [Domino]
FOLK: JOHN MCCUTCHEON Leap! [Appalseed]
HEAVY: MEGADEATH The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! [UMe]
HIP HOP: DANGER MOUSE AND BLACK THOUGHT Cheat Codes [BMG]
JAZZ: AL FOSTER Reflections [Smoke Sessions]
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: FLOATING POINTS “Problems” (Single) [Ninja Tune]
FOLK: MARTIN AND THE FALL Never Been Better (EP) [Self-Released
HEAVY (tie): LOST SOCIETY If The Sky Came Down [Nuclear Blast].
MOONSPELL From Down Below [Napalm]
HIP HOP (tie): ARK WOODS Island Radio (EP) [Riptide]
DESON TENINCHY First Supper [Estate]
JAZZ: AIMEE ALLEN Love And The Catalyst [Azuline]
WORLD: DIVINO NINO Last Spa On Earth [Winspear]

 

NACC SINGLES:

GENRE: ARTIST Title [Label]

#1 SINGLE: ARCTIC MONKEYS “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball” [Domino]
MOST-ADDED SINGLE (tie): WHITE LUNG “Date Night” b/w “Tomorrow” [Domino]
FLOATING POINTS “Problems” [Ninja Tune]
HANNAH JADAGU “Say It Now” [Sub Pop]