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). Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
2). JD McPherson — Let The Good Times Roll
3). Hozier — Hozier
4). BRONCHO — Just Enough Hip To Be Woman
5). Viet Cong — Viet Cong
6). Kyle Reid & the Low Swinging Chariots — Alright … Here We Go
7). Title Fight — Hyperview
8). Bob Dylan — Shadows in the Night
9). Belle & Sebastian — Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
10). John Carpenter — Lost Themes
JD McPherson came out swinging with his sophomore LP (read our take here), but he couldn’t quite match the lovin’ Oklahomans showed for ex-Fleet Fox/current sex panther Josh Tillman. The Sub Pop-signed singer nabbed the top spot with his second disc under the pseudonym Father John Misty out from the slippery clutches of Tulsa’s native son. Maybe it’s all the hair grease.
Last week’s top seller, Halloween silver-screen fiend John Carpenter, slips to the 10th spot with his debut album, preceded by Scot-pop savants Belle & Sebastian, still hanging tough at ninth. Meanwhile, “Take Me to Church” crooner Hozier pops back up to No. 3, Norman/Tulsa pop-punk saviors BRONCHO burst back onto the chart with their “Class Historian”-anchored record, and Viet Cong returns with its lauded debut. Holdovers Kyle Reid & the Low Swinging Chariots are burning bright, emo-rockers-turned-shoegazers Title Fight are still scrapping, and Bob Dylan — who just announced an OKC show — remains in the thick of things with his 36th studio album.
