Sunset Rubdown Slays All To Reach #1

07/07/09 2:38pm

by Chris Burland (CHARTattack)

With a new month, there's a new #1 album on the chart.

After several weeks of predictions that a certain "Kool Thing" quartet would take over top spot on the top 50 chart, it's a west coast supergroup of sorts that grabs the top honours for the week. Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer jumps up four spots to land at #1 in its third week on the chart.

Veteran rockers, Dinosaur Jr. see their latest musical effort, Farm, also rise up the chart, moving six places to the #2 slot. Last week's top dog, Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest, drops two places to #3.

That aforementioned foursome, Sonic Youth sees their new labum, The Eternal, drop one position to #4, while Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca rises a place to #5. Another former #1 album, Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love slips down two places to #6, followed by the self-titled release from Clues falling five positions to land at #7.

Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix jumps five spots to #8, Think About Life's Family falls two places to #9 and The Lovely Feathers' Fantasy Of The Lot moves up five positions to sit at #10 this week.

In recent weeks, there have been a number of reissues debuting well on this chart. This week's Chart Sizzler, awarded to the highest debut, goes to Royal City's recently released self-titled anthology. The album features a number of this well-liked and much-missed quartet's key tracks. Royal City enters at #15 just beating out the runner-up, Got To Get Got's Sahalee, which debuts at #16.

The second volume in a series called Vancouver's Punk As Fuck enters at #21 while world music star Vieux Farka Toure's Fondo impressively debuts at #24. Other notable new entries include the eponymous record from Reverie Sound Revue at #27, The Most Serene Republic's ...And The Ever Expanding Universe at #28 and Regina Spektor's Far at #29.

On the five specialty charts, there are three new #1 albums heading their respective top ten charts.

Toure's just mentioned Fondo moves up two spots to grab #1 on the World/Folk chart. Grand Analog's Metropolis Is Burning rises a spot to #1 on the Hip Hop top ten and Coalesce's Ox jumps four spots to nail down #1 on the Metal/Punk list. Tiga's Ciao! holds onto #1 on the Electronic chart, while Gypsophilia's Sa-Ba-Da-Ow! is firmly entrenched at #1 on the Jazz/Blues chart again this week.