What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma has decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about their top-sellers each week to figure out just that. Here’s what was flying off the shelves/out of the crates this week:
1). Belle & Sebastian — Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
2). Sleater-Kinney — No Cities to Love
3). The Decemberists — What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
4). Low Litas — Low Litas
5). Viet Cong — Viet Cong
6). Panda Bear — Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
7). Taylor Swift — 1989
8). Death Grips — Exmilitary
9). The 1975 — The 1975
10). Mark Ronson — Uptown Special
No huge surprises there. Glasgow indie-pop icons Belle & Sebastian, the revitalized Sleater-Kinney and Portland-beard-hair-turned-folk-act The Decemberists all put out long-awaited (a full decade, in one case) albums last Tuesday. The best-selling record of 2014 belonged to Taylor Swift, and 1989 is still pushing units, while The 1975 has some serious staying power; the English indie rockers put out that self-titled debut back in 2013.
It’s nice to see Oklahoma shoppers giving their native daughters Low Litas support, and big ups to those brave enough to pick up Viet Cong, a very, very good album. Animal Collective offshoot Panda Bear’s holds over from last week’s release, while Death Grips’ Exmilitary got the bootleg vinyl treatment four years (!) after the debut mixtape was unveiled by the constantly combusting art-punk group. And Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special proves no one can resist the funk. No one.
