Charts & Adds: Week of 3/24 – 3/31

Day ?? of Quarantine: I have lost the ability to come up with witty, charming introductions to C&A articles. Luckily, the charts and adds are still intact…

Top 5 Charts:

1.) Squirrel Flower – I Was Born Swimming

Ella O’Connor Williams’s debut album is a sweeping collection of songs that encompass the best parts of female-fronted indie rock. The album’s title refers to the fact that the artist was born still inside a caul sac membrane: literally “swimming.”

2.) Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

Tame Impala’s groundbreaking Currents was a hard album to follow up; this may be, in part, why The Slow Rush arrived a full five years later. Though it is debatable whether this album lives up to its predecessor, The Slow Rush is a dynamic album and a strong return for Tame Impala.

3.) Soccer Mommy – color theory

Soccer Mommy’s sophomore album somehow manages to be both brighter and darker than her debut, Clean. color theory is an exploration in growth, encapsulating the young artist’s rise to indie fame and the struggles that have arisen as a result.

4.) Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar

Deacon returns to the psychedelic pop sound that he has explored on past records and expands upon it, making this record dreamier and more enigmatic and delivering longer, more patient tracks that rely on a minimalist texture and a realized landscape to capture listeners. Read the rest of music staffer Matt Stratton’s review here.

5.) Car Seat Headrest – “Can’t Cool Me Down” [Single]

In 2020, Car Seat Headrest is reinventing itself. This first single release from their upcoming album Making a Door Less Open (their first release in four years) marks a shift from their well-established sound within the realm of gritty rock to their new experimentation in electronic music.

Top 30 Charts

Rank	Artist	Record	Label
1	Squirrel Flower	I Was Born Swimming	Polyvinyl
2	Tame Impala	The Slow Rush	Interscope
3	Soccer Mommy	color theory	Loma Vista/Concord
4	Dan Deacon	Mystic Familiar	Domino
5	Car Seat Headrest	“Can’t Cool Me Down” [Single]	Matador
6	Frances Quinlan	Likewise	Saddle Creek
7	Baseball Gregg	Calendar	Z Tapes
8	Church Girls	The Haunt	Anchor Eighty Four
9	Kid Nobody	Discretion [EP]	Self-released
10	Men I Trust	Oncle Jazz	Self-released
11	Frankie Valet	Waterfowl	It Takes Time
12	Grimes	Miss Anthropocene	4AD/Beggars Group
13	Ezra Furman	Sex Education Original Soundtrack	Bella Union/PIAS
14	Loving	If I Am Only My Thoughts	Last Gang
15	Babehoven	Demonstrating Visible Difference of Height [EP]	Self-released
16	Say Hi	Diamonds & Donuts	Euphobia
17	Boy Romeo	Pure Soul	Self-released
18	HMLTD	West Of Eden	Lucky Number
19	Wild Nothing	Laughing Gas [EP]	Captured Tracks
20	Shadow Show	Silhouettes	Burger
21	Frankie Cosmos	Close It Quietly	Sub Pop
22	Angel Olsen	All Mirrors	Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group
23	Shopping	All Or Nothing	Fatcat
24	Floodlights	Backyard [EP]	Self-released
25	Nada Surf	Never Not Together	Barsuk
26	Destroyer	Have We Met	Merge
27	Injury Reserve	“Hoodwinked” [Single]	Loma Vista
28	Hovvdy	Heavy Lifter	Double Double Whammy
29	Caribou	Suddenly	Merge
30	King Krule	Man Alive!	True Panther/Matador

Top 3 Adds:

1.) Half Waif – The Caretaker

Recommended if you like: Caroline Polachek, Chelsea Wolfe, FKA Twigs, Mitski

2.) Sorry – 925

Recommended if you like: Shopping, Porridge Radio, Dry Cleaning, Shame

3.) Dirty Projectors – Windows Open [EP]

Recommended if you like: Deerhunter, Bjork, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective

Top 10 Adds

Rank	Artist	Record	Label
1	Half Waif	The Caretaker	Anti-
2	Sorry	925	Domino
3	Dirty Projectors	Windows Open [EP]	Domino
4	Eliza & the Delusionals	A State Of Living In An Objective Reality [EP]	Cooking Vinyl
5	Waxahatchee	Saint Cloud	Merge
6	Gold Cage	Social Crutch	Felte
7	Catholic Action	Celebrated by Strangers	Palo Santo
8	Circa Waves	Sad Happy	PIAS
9	TOPS	I Feel Alive	Musique Tops
10	Margaret Glaspy	Devotion	ATO