What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma has decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about their top-sellers each week to figure out just that. Here’s what was flying off the shelves/out of the crates this week:
1). Sleater-Kinney — No Cities to Love
2). Belle & Sebastian — Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
3). John Calvin Abney — Better Luck
4). Ty Segall — Live in San Francisco
5). The Decemberists — What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
6). Veruca Salt — American Thighs
7). Viet Cong — Viet Cong
8). Joey Bada$$ — B4.DA.$$
9). Panda Bear — Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
10). Hozier — Hozier
The old flip-flop. With no big-time releases this week, Carrie Brownstein & Co. jumped Stuart Murdoch & Friends (that sounds like a Scottish Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, doesn’t it?) for the top spot after trailing the Glasgow outfit last week. The Decemberists faded back a couple of spots, as did Panda Bear and Viet Cong, though the latter is exhibiting a nice little hold for being a new name (and playing a brand of post-punk that isn’t necessarily “crowd-friendly”).
Oklahoma’s own barefoot crooner turned folk rock juggernaut John Calvin Abney is the highest-charting new entry with his proper studio debut full-length, Better Luck, followed by a new live LP by Bay Area garage rocker (and NMF alum) Ty Segall. Veteran Chicago alt-rock outfit Veruca Salt landed on the list with the vinyl reissue of its debut, American Thighs. Pro-Era ringleader Joey Bada$$ is doing well with his new “golden age hip-hop” disc B4.DA.$$ (maybe Malia Obama Selflies are the new Colbert Bump?). Hozier contains to make more and more believers out of listeners; his self-titled debut — anchored by “Take Me to Church” — is still moving units three months after its October release. Praise Jesus.
