Even with the enormous lead Slowdive (#1 last week) and Ratboys (#2 last week) had amassed over the rest of the albums in the Top 10, it wasn’t enough to stop the Mitski juggernaut. Born Mitsuki Laycock and raised all around the world, Mitski has been recording music professionally for over a decade. This week her seventh LP, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We (Dead Oceans/Secretly Canadian), soars 10-1 on the NACC 200. Mitski enjoys several notable accomplishments in doing so. She ties for the fastest climb ever to #1, becomes the fourth artist to score three #1 records on the NACC 200, and moves into a tie for third place on the list of artists with the most cumulative weeks at #1 (12). She also accomplishes the NACC hat trick by rising 10-1 on NACC Non-Comm and 17-1 on NACC NEXT.
Three albums reach the NACC Top 10 this week. The one making the biggest move (though just barely) over the other two comes from Sparklehorse. Led by Mark Linkous, the band formed in 1995 and released five very warmly received LPs over the next 15 years. Tragically, Linkous took his own life in 2010, seemingly ending Sparklehorse. Mark’s brother Matt & his wife Melissa (both previous Sparklehorse contributors) oversaw his unreleased music, finding a song they didn’t know existed last year. The compilation climbing the charts this week consists of that track alongside previously unreleased music and older recordings, including tracks the band had initially recorded with producer Steve Albini. Those tracks were originally meant to form the band’s fifth album before they collaborated with Danger Mouse, resulting in the creation of their actual fifth album, Bird Machine (Anti-). The songs were finished with the help of longtime Sparklehorse producer Alan Weatherhead. The album jumps 17-10 this week on the NACC 200.
Also reaching the NACC Top 10 is Frankie And The Witch Fingers. Containing neither a person named Frankie nor members with witch fingers (that we know of anyway), the band began in Bloomington, IN as a solo project for Dylan Sizemore in 2013. Now based in Los Angeles, Frankie And The Witch Fingers is a quartet and have released seven LPs, including their latest, Data Doom (RAS/Greenway), which climbs 14-9, giving them their first Top 10 on the NACC 200. Also reaching the Top 10 this week is a band we featured a few weeks ago: Deeper. They rise 13-7 for their first NACC 200 Top 10 as well.
Making this week’s biggest climb on the NACC 200, roaring 197-20, is Singaporean five-piece Subsonic Eye. The band released their debut album, Strawberry Feels, in 2017. Dive Into followed in 2018 with Nature Of Things landing in 2021. But it’s the release of All Around You (Topshelf) that sees the band receive their first feature here on our weekly NACC Chart Recap. It’s worth noting that this is not only the biggest climb of the week, but also the biggest of 2023 and one of the Top 5 biggest moves ever on the NACC 200.
The battle for NACC’s most-added album this week was a nail biter between CHAI and Slaughter Beach, Dog. In the end, only one Top 10 Add separated the two. And it was Slaughter Beach, Dog that came out on top with 59 Top 10 Adds. Initially begun in 2014 as a solo project for Modern Baseball co-frontman Jake Ewald, the band became a full-fledged band and has enjoyed great success on the NACC 200 with their previous two albums reaching the NACC Top 10. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling (Lame-O) is the band’s fifth LP and their second to take ‘most-added’ honors.
Austin, TX duo The Black Pumas spends a second week #1 on the NACC Singles Chart this week with “More Than A Love Song.” The song comes from their forthcoming second LP, Chronicles Of A Diamond, due October 27. The song also spends a fourth week atop the R&B/Soul Chart. Only one single collects enough adds to place inside the NACC 200 Top 30 Adds Chart this week. “Modern Girl” is (so far anyway) a stand-alone single from super-producer and songwriter Jack Antonoff and his band Bleachers that was featured in the final season of Netflix’s Sex Education.
