What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about its top-sellers each week to figure out just that. Here’s what was flying off the shelves/out of the crates this week:
1. D’Angelo — Black Messiah
2. Purity Ring — Another Eternity
3. Torche — Restarter
4. BadBadNotGood — Sour Soul
5. Sam Smith — In The Lonely Hour
6. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — Chasing Yesterday
7. Will Butler — Policy
8. Dan Deacon — Glass Riffer
9. Iron & Wine — Archive Series Vol. 1
10. Weedeater — God Luck & Good Speed
It’s a new-look chart this week, with only Purity Ring — last week’s champ — and Dan Deacon defending their spots in the top 10. The man who might have put out the best album of 2015 and waited until its closing moments to do so finally got the vinyl treatment for his long-in-the-works masterpiece Black Messiah, rightfully ascending to the throne. The similarly soulful new project from BadBadNotGood (made in collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan’s own Ghostface Killah) found its way to No. 4.
Noel Gallagher and Will Butler showed they can do pretty well out on their own, as the new albums from the NME fixture/former Oasis leader and current Arcade Fire member, respectively, charted this week. Iron & Wine’s rarities compilation found its way into the mix; Sam Smith returns yet again with his Grammy-dominating album In The Lonely Hour; all while heavy music had its way this week, with the new album from Torche and a vinyl reissue from Weedeater moving a healthy number of units, assuredly leading to a spike in head-banging across the greater Oklahoma City metro area.
