Friday Charts - 2/24/06
Here's our weekly look at the most popular albums at a popular file sharing site. This should be used to judge which albums are the most anticipated releases among people with more eclectic music taste than the people buying the albums that make it onto the more official charts. They're also a good indication of what you could maybe find on the internet if you searched really hard. This week, when available, links will take you somewhere where you can sample music from the album:
1. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
2. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
3. Calexico - Garden Ruin
4. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
5. Liars - Drums Not Dead
6. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
7. Granddaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat
8. Islands - Return To The Sea
9. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
10. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Several new entries this week, with most of the top ten surprisingly having been reviewed by the omnipresent Pitchfork, (See: Secret Machines, Sunset Rubdown, Destroyer, Liars.) The Liars in particular has been floating around for a while and really took off this week because of that review.
Sunset Rubdown is a side project of Wolf Parade singer Spencer Krug, for those interested. They have released two EPs in addition to the forth coming full length mentioned above. I found the Destroyer album to be interesting enough to warrant a couple listens, it is theatrical and dramatic. The other two new albums to hit the top ten this week I am not interested in so much. I do not like the Liars style music, and I am shocked that the Fiery Furnaces can be as popular as they are. We saw them open for the Strokes a few months before Blueberry Boat came out, and months later, as I read the applause given to the album I had to take a deep breath as I realized it was the same band. Lastly, keep in mind that the Flaming Lips album has nearly twice the seeders as any onther release on here.
