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. Jamie xx – In Colour
2. Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
3. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 10th Anniversary Edition
5. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
6. Best Coast – California Nights
7. Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated at Last
8. Hot Chip – Why Makes Sense?
9. Ceremony – L-Shaped Man
10. Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind
It takes a lot of hutzpah to top Florence and her mighty Machine (especially in the first week of release), but Jamie xx — yes, of The xx fame — did it with his solo debut (and instant AOTY contender) In Colour. Coming in at No. 2, Florence & Co. aren’t exactly slumming it with their third studio effort either. Showing that Americans will occasionally buy non-British music, too, upstart Chicago folk songwriter Ryley Walker makes a statement by landing at No. 3 with his sophomore album. The little DIY band that could, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, pops in at No. 4 a decade after become one of the very first music-blog-band success stories, reminding us all that death crawls ever closer and nostalgia is the only elixir.
Aussie Courtney Barnett — fresh off a sold-out show in Dallas — can’t be stopped, sitting position or not. After a brief absence, she rounds out the top five with her acclaimed debut. Holdovers Best Coast, last week’s top seller Thee Oh Sees and dance sensations Hot Chip follow from there, while some rather scathing reviews of Ceremony’s latest LP have done little to deter fans from buying it up. Mumford & Sons fucking still won’t go away, either. They’re clinging with their fingertips to that final spot in the top 10.
