Cub Scouts Crack CMJ Top 20

Brisbane indie-pop group Cub Scouts are celebrating today as news of their further climb into the top reaches of the influential CMJ Top 200 chart today sees them appear in the number 16 position.

Two weeks ago the band were excited to be in the number 68 spot on the chart, which is compiled from the top albums played at college and non-commercial radio in the US, before they cracked the Top 30 last week, settling into 28^th position and now they've improved on that yet again.

“We are ridiculously excited, it's beyond anything we'd imagined or hoped for,” the band's frontman Tim Nelson said to theMusic.com.au this afternoon. “We're looking forward to a huge 2013 and I guess we're going to need to put at trip to the states on our itinerary now. Hopefully this might mean our day jobs are living on borrowed time!”

The band have charted with their debut EP Told You So, a massive effort in its own right given the scant number of EP releases that make it into the chart, and have done so without any management of record label backing. No doubt this huge radio interest will see them fielding more than a few offers in the near future, though.

Here's the EP's title track: