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. Leon Bridges – Coming Home
2. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
3. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
5. Girlpool – Before The World Was Big
6. Joy Williams – Venus
7. Ryan Adams – Burn Into The Night
8. Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
9. Refused – Freedom
10. Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
Best of 2015 so far lists have been floating all around the past few weeks (we did our own, if you didn’t already see it), which might explain why some very good albums from Leon Bridges (No. 1), Kendrick Lamar (No. 2), Sufjan Stevens (No. 4) and Girlpool (No. 5) took over the top part of this week’s list after varying degrees of absence. Of course, Bridges was in the second spot last week and just two weeks away from the release of his highly anticipated debut (the title track is the truth, y’all), while Lamar has been vocally fighting back against the damning words from those dipshits at Fox News, so it’s not all just mid-year catching up.
The Stone Roses hold well from last week, actually jumping up a spot from No. 4 to No. 3. Joy Williams has weathered the breakup of The Civil Wars to land at No. 6 with her first solo album since the split. People got excited about the newest 7-inch EP from Ryan Adams (No. 7), while a Nirvana classic, the reunion record from Swedish hardcore punk legends Refused, and free jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor round out the top 10.
