The Roots' "How I Got Over" was a given to make a decent move. After all, it's The Roots. ?uestlove, Black Thought, and the rest of the Roots crew bust into the top ten in their second week on, landing at #9 after debuting at #27 last week. Not too shabby, but not the biggest move this week either.
At first listen, The Noisettes seemed like another act hitching on the Mark Ronson/ Amy Winehouse aesthete that has spawned a movement the last couple years. "Never Forget You" is not just another soulful song with a Sixties throwback approach though. Shingai Shoniwa's vocals have the soul all right, but they also have a personality about them. Enough personality to help the song split the distance from it's #34 debut last week by jumping up to #17.
Bradford Cox employs Jack White's work ethic. Cox leads Deerhunter - last year's Microcastle and "Nothing Ever Happened" were both in the top 5 of The Mixtape's Best Albums and Singles of 2008 respectively - and also cranks out Atlas Sound albums and EPs like the dude is hooked up to a Red Bull drip. Based on Atlas Sound's 2008 album, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel, there might have been a bit of morphine coming through the IV line as well. Atlas Sound's next album, Logos, is set for release on Oct. 20, 2009. First single, "Walkabout," which features vocals from Animal Collective's Noah Lennox, goes light on the morphine and heavy on the Sunny D. The song is as accessible as anything Atlas Sound has released and Lennox's (aka Panda Bear) influence is all over the track's layered vocals and free floating vibe. Last week's quiet debut at #35 is this week's loud leap to #15. See you in the top ten soon boys.
Finally, the biggest jump of the week. From a band that isn't even on iTunes yet. Yet. Neon Indian's "Deadbeat Summer" goes batshit crazy, jumping 27 spots from #39 to #12. The song feels old and new; poppy and indie at the same time. Synths rule the terrain, but it's Alan Palomo's vocals and melodies that sell the song. Best listened to while sitting on a beat-up couch on the front porch, staring at the sun and sippin' on the syzzurp of summer. Drink it in people. It goes down real smooth. Even on the 20th listen.
As for next week's potential big movers, the bottom five of this week's Mixtape is where the new entries live this week. Debuts from Port O'Brien (36), Metric (37), and Muse (39) represent the Mixtape vets. There is also a new entry from first-time 'Tapers, Internet Forever (40). And some guy named Julian Plenti (38) who is better known as Interpol lead-singer, Paul Banks. So that secret's out. See y'all next humpday.
- Cryin' Lightning / Arctic Monkeys (3 weeks @ #1) iTunes MySpace
- Life In Marvelous Times / Mos Def iTunes MySpace
- Summertime Clothes / Animal Collective iTunes MySpace
- Easy / Deer Tick iTunes MySpace
- Stillness Is the Move / Dirty Projectors iTunes MySpace
- Casa Bey / Mos Def iTunes MySpace
- Two Weeks / Grizzly Bear iTunes MySpace
- How I Got Over / The Roots iTunes MySpace
- Bull Black Nova / Wilco iTunes MySpace
- Got Nuffin' / Spoon iTunes MySpace
- It's Nice to Know You Work Alone / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
- Deadbeat Summer / Neon Indian iTunes MySpace
- Catch and Release / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
- The End Is Near / The Fiery Furnaces iTunes MySpace
- Walkabout / Atlas Sound iTunes MySpace
- Temecula Sunrise / Dirty Projectors iTunes MySpace
- Never Forget You / The Noisettes iTunes MySpace
- Upside Down / Banjo or Freakout iTunes MySpace
- Lost Words / Ganglians iTunes MySpace
- Song For No One / Miike Snow iTunes MySpace
- You'll Disappear / The Phenomenal Handclap Band iTunes MySpace
- My Unusual Friend / Fruit Bats iTunes MySpace
- I Can't Get Away / Stardeath & White Dwarfs iTunes MySpace
- 21st Century Breakdown/ Green Day iTunes MySpace
- Radio Kaliningrad / Handsome Furs iTunes MySpace
- Caterpillar Playground / Nurses iTunes MySpace
- Seasun / Delorean iTunes MySpace
- Murder City / Green Day iTunes MySpace
- Chosen Armies / Children Collide iTunes MySpace
- Skeletons / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
- Feel Like Taking You Home / Brendan Benson iTunes MySpace
- You Never Know/ Wilco iTunes MySpace
- Sun Was High (So Was I) / Best Coast iTunes MySpace
- Silver Trembling Hands / The Flaming Lips iTunes MySpace
- L.A. Guitar Dream / Spanish Prisoners iTunes MySpace
- Sour Milk, Salt Water / Port O'Brien (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Gold Girls Guns / Metric (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Games For Days / Julian Plenti (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Uprising / Muse (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Break Bones / Internet Forever (NEW) iTunes MySpace
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