What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about its top-sellers each week to figure out just that. Here’s what was flying off the shelves/out of the crates this week:
1. Muse – Drones
2. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
3. Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
4. Jamie xx – In Colour
5. Ryan Adams – Ten Songs from Live at Carnegie Hall
6. Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson – Django & Jimmie
7. Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated at Last
8. Of Monsters & Men – Beneath The Skin
9. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
10. Franz Ferdinand & Sparks – FFS
Millennial Pink Floyd Muse steps into the top spot with its seventh studio album, proving once and for all that Americans are clamoring for British alt-prog commentary on modern warfare tactics. A reissue of The Rolling Stones’ (in the midst of a tour that brought them through Dallas earlier this month) seminal release Sticky Fingers tracks in at No. 2, followed by holdovers from Florence + The Machine and Jamie xx.
Ryan Adams slides his way into the top five with the vinyl sampler of career-spanning songs from a recent performance at Carnegie Hall in New York (there’s a limited edition, 216-minute version out there, too), while country music legends Merle and Willie teamed up for their sixth (!) duet album that lands at, appropriately enough, No. 6. Thee Oh Sees stand pat at No. 7, while unlikely AOTY contender Courtney Barnett slides to No. 9, right ahead of the Franz Ferdinand/Sparks supergroup self-titled debut.
Most importantly, you’ve done it! The beast is dead! Mumford & Sons hath finally been vanquished! Instead, we’ve got Iceland’s answer to Mumford, Of Monsters & Men, jumping up to nab the No. 8 spot. But, hey. Progress.
