Charts & Adds: Week of 5/19 – 5/26

Top 5 Charts:

1.) Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open

Car Seat Headrest’s latest album, Making a Door Less Open, is a definite leap from the group’s well-established (and well-loved) sound into something more experimental. Luckily, CSH pulls off this transition well, creating a record that is, at times, as unsettling as it is catchy.

2.) Elvis Depressedly – Depressedelica

n a sense, Elvis Depressedly’s stellar new album Depressedelica is something of a love letter to music itself, a synthesis of the broad spectrum of art and influence that shaped his youth. It marks Cothran’s first album of new material under this moniker in four years, and he pushes sonic and genre  boundaries with gleeful abandon.

3.) Music Band – Celebration

The trust built between Music Band members Harry Kagan, Lee Putney, and Duncan Shea comes from a bond of friendship that feels rare among young rock and roll bands. They spent years self-booking, self-recording and self-promoting, creating an invaluable work ethic. And perhaps the most important factor is that je ne sais quoi: a mixture of sincerity and never taking themselves too seriously.

4.) Dead Ghosts – Automatic Charger

Formed nearly a decade ago in Vancouver, Canada, the garage-rock group grew out of founders Byran Nicol, Drew Wilky, and Mike Wilky’s desire to hang out, listen to records and play music. Defying their own expectations, by 2015 the group had released three albums. Playing a distinctive brand of swaggering, blues-infused lo-fi rock, the five-piece quickly won over transatlantic fans and scored fresh fodder for their lyrics with their punk-rock antics.

5.) Day Wave – Crush [EP]

What started as the dream-pop project of Jackson Phillips has now transitioned into a confident expedition into jaunty jangle-rock and bittersweet synth-pop. The songs on the Crush EP highlight the best of lo-fi and the intimate warmth of Day Wave’s production.

Top 30 Charts

Rank	Artist	Record	Label
1	Car Seat Headrest	Making a Door Less Open	Matador/Beggars
2	Elvis Depressedly	Depressedelica	Run For Cover
3	Music Band	Celebration	Dine Alone
4	Dead Ghosts	Automatic Changer	Burger
5	Day Wave	Crush [EP]	PIAS
6	Diet Cig	Do You Wonder About Me?	Frenchkiss
7	Suntitle	Pure Forever [EP]	Know Hope
8	Bugs	Self Help	Self-Released
9	EOB	Earth	Capitol
10	Peach Pit	You and Your Friends	Columbia
11	Vlossom	My Friend [EP]	Etc Etc
12	Sweet Crude	Officiel//Artificiel	Verve Forecast
13	The Buttertones	Jazzhound	Innovative Leisure
14	M. Ward	Migration Stories	Anti-
15	Fiona Apple	Fetch the Bolt Cutters	Epic
16	Flat Worms	Antarctica	God?
17	Dan Croll	Grand Plan / Work [EP]	Caroline International
18	Thurlowood	Discontinue Normal Program	Day Before
19	The Pack A.D.	It Was Fun While It Lasted	Self-Released
20	Big Thief	“Love in Mine” [Single]	4AD
21	Yves Tumor	Heaven to a Tortured Mind	Warp
22	Jaunt	All in One	Self-Released
23	Trace Mountains	Lost in the Country	Lame-O
24	Crisman	Crisman	Topshelf
25	Methyl Ethel	Hurts To Laugh [EP]	Dot Dash
26	Wares	Survival	Mint
27	Stay Inside	Viewings	No Sleep
28	Purity Ring	WOMB	Crystal Math/4AD/Beggars
29	SONOFDOV	Battle Lines [EP]	Mint 400
30	Boy Scouts	“A World So Full Of Love” [Single]	Anti-

Top 3 Adds:

1.) Mini Trees – Slip Away [EP]

Recommended if you like: Mitski, Sufjan Stevens, Soccer Mommy

2.) Psychic Markers – Psychic Markers

Recommended if you like: MGMT, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem

3.) Jerry Paper – Abracadabra

Recommended if you like: Ariel Pink, Connan Mockasin, Crumb

Top 10 Adds

Rank	Artist	Record	Label
1	Mini Trees	Slip Away [EP]	Self-Released
2	Psychic Markers	Psychic Markers	Bella Union/PIAS
3	Jerry Paper	Abracadabra	Stones Throw
4	Powerviolets	No Boys	Self-Released
5	Baths	Pop Music / False B-Sides II	Basement’s Basement
6	Dakota Theim	Somewhere Under the Sun	Self-Released
7	2nd Grade	Hit to Hit	Double Double Whammy
8	Deerhoof	Future Teenage Cave Artists	Joyful Noise
9	Owen Pallett	ISLAND	Domino
10	Fonkynson	Falling	Lisbon Lux