Tokyo Police Club Still Battling Islands

I think we have bit of a dogfight here in Charty Chart Chat Land. It won't be as legendary as the famous feud between the Hatfields and The McCoys, but Tokyo Police Club's A Lesson In Crime and Islands' Return To The Sea have been displacing each other at #1 over the past four weeks. To continue the trend, TPC have jumped over Islands to grab back the top spot this week. And though there's this battle for #1 at the top of the chart, there are three newer albums that have set their sights on trumping both these releases.

Jumping up the chart 18 spots in to #3 in its second week on the chart is Camera Obscura's Let's Get Out Of This Country. It's followed by an even larger rise by Mission Of Burma, whose The Obliterati rockets 31 spots to #4. That bests Sunset Rubdown's Shut Up I Am Dreaming, which moves up one place to #5. Also moving in a positive way is the group predicted by some to be the "Outkast of the summer of '06," Gnarls Barkley. Their St. Elsewhere jumps 12 places to grab #6. Feist's Open Season: Remixes & Collabs drops four spots to #7, followed by The Lovely Feathers' Hind Hind Legs, which drops one place to #8 and The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics, which slides down four places to #9. Pony Up's Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes slips a spot to #10.

In one of the closest races in recent memory, the Chart Sizzler Award for the highest debut of the week goes to the self-titled release by Ladyhawk, which enters at #12. It's followed immediately by Be Your Own Pet's eponymous release at #13. Vancougar's Losin' It! debuts at #20, due mainly to their hometown station putting it at #1. Other notable high debuts include Tilly And The Wall's Bottoms Of Barrels at #25, The Walkmen's A Hundred Miles Off at #26 and ex-Moldy Peach Kimya Dawson's Remember That I Love You at #32.

There are four new #1s on the specialty charts. The aforementioned Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere moves up a spot to take over #1 on the Hip-Hop chart. Veteran jazz vocalist, Cassandra Wilson sees Thunderbird jump two places to grab #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart. Matmos' The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast creeps up a spot to take #1 on the Electronic Top 10, while hard rockin' veterans Celtic Frost rise five positions to take over #1 on the Metal chart with Monotheist. The only #1 album to retain its stature is Extra Golden's OK-Oyot System on the World/Folk chart.