What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about its best-selling records each week to figure out just that. Here’s what was flying off the shelves/out of the crates this week:
1. Tame Impala – Currents
2. Childish Gambino – Camp
3. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
4. Mac Demarco – Another One
5. The Pizza Thieves – Solid Gold Oldies
6. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds
7. John Calvin Abney – Better Luck
8. Leon Bridges – Coming Home
9. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels II
10. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Currents must be made up of the opposite of whatever Fantastic Four is, because people just can’t get enough of it. This is the Australia psych-rock crew’s fourth (!) straight week on top of the Guestroom Records best-sellers chart, even topping this generation’s Jimmy Buffett, Mac Demarco, who debuts at No. 4 with his mini-LP Another One. Lest we step into some record store-set version of Groundhog Day, the rest of the list is relatively shaken up. Childish Gambino — aka Troy, aka Donald Glover — sparks up at No. 2 with his reissued studio debut, Camp, ousting Jason Isbell, who steers out of the chart completely, while the evil force that is Mumford & Sons rises from the depths of hell to No. 3 with their also reissued debut, Sigh No More.
Oklahoma’s own The Pizza Thieves (whom you can catch at Oxford Karma’s Endless Summer on Saturday, August 29) and John Calvin Abney punch in at No. 5 and No. 7, respectively. Country savior Sturgill Simpson takes over the reigns for the booted Isbell, landing at No. 6, Leon Bridges comes home to his spot on the list at No. 8 while holdovers Run The Jewels and Titus Andonicus slip to the final two spots at No. 9 and 10.
