She’s done it! Mitski breaks a NACC 200 record this week as her latest LP, The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We (Dead Oceans/Secretly Canadian), spends a fifth straight week atop the NACC 200. No one else has spent as many cumulative weeks atop the NACC 200. She has sixteen weeks at #1 between her three chart-toppers. She also becomes just the second artist (after the band Alvvays) to have two albums spend five or more weeks at #1. Her seventh studio album also spends a fifth week at #1 on NACC NEXT and rises back to #1 on NACC Non-Comm this week.
Just one album reaches the NACC Top 10 this week. It comes from New York City-based trio Blonde Redhead. The band consists of twin brothers Amedeo and Simon Pace, who were born in Italy, raised in Canada, and moved to the US to study jazz. The two met their lead singer Kazu Makino in a chance meeting at a restaurant in 1993 and Blonde Redhead (named after a song from the band DNA) was born. Their 10th album, Sit Down For Dinner (section1), is their first since 2014 and rises 12-9 this week on the NACC 200.
Brooklyn-based The Drums began in 2008. Members Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham had earlier been in a group called Goat Explosion which later became Elkland, who released an album in 2005. Two of The Drums albums were released as a quartet before the band shrunk down to a duo. In 2016, The Drums became a solo project for Pierce when Graham exited the project. On this sixth LP, Jonny (Anti-), Pierce bares his soul (and his butt) in a deeply personal album about the trauma of growing up in a cult-like religious community. Jonny leaps from 170-30 on the NACC 200 this week.
Making the second-biggest climb on the NACC 200 and the biggest into the Top 20 is Canadian quartet Metric. Formed in Toronto in 1988, Metric have had the same lineup dating back to 2002, with, at its core, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw. They’ve released nine studio albums. Their latest bookends their eighth LP, Formentera (one of the Top 10 biggest releases of 2022 and the longest #1 of 2022 at NACC NEXT). Formentera II (Metric/Thirty Tigers) leaps 142-15 on the NACC 200 this week, is the biggest climber at NACC Electronic (29-14), and reaches the Top 10 at NACC NEXT (23-10).
London-based quartet Bombay Bicycle Club takes ‘most-added’ honors this week with the release of their sixth studio album, My Big Day (Mmm…/AWAL). The four musicians began making music together in 2005. They took a three-year hiatus in 2016 for some to pursue solo projects before reforming in 2019. They’ve released two albums since they got back together including their latest, which collects 62 Top 10 Adds this week, nearly two dozen more adds than the second-most added album, and scores one of the Top 5 debuts of the week, opening at #74 on the NACC 200.
Irish trio Two Door Cinema Club are back with a stand-alone new single called “Sure Enough.” The band recently announced a string of 2024 North American tour dates where they will no doubt play this song. It rises 2-1 on NACC Singles this week.
It was a Singles add bonanza this week. After only one single (from Mother Mother) landed on the NACC 200 Top 30 Singles Chart last week, this week four singles appear, including three in the Top 20. Idles & LCD Soundsystem and Caroline Polachek debut at #18 and #13 respectively. But Kurt Vile bests them all, landing a rare Top 5 most-added single with “Another Good Year For The Roses” which comes from his soon-to-be released Back To Moon Beach album, due November 17.
