Grenadiers Make Top 20 Debut In Carlton Dry Indie Charts

Fresh from their time as triple j's feature-record artists last week, Adelaide punk outfit Grenadiers have scored the highest debut spot for this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, with their recent full-length Summer nabbing them #13 on the latest Albums ladder.

They're not the only newcomers for the week, however, with Juke Kartel — who have been operating under the moniker London Cries for at least the last year (and, confusingly, still manage two Facebook pages) — earning #14 for The Lost Songs EP. As with recent weeks, though, the new entries can't quite upset the existing status quo in the top half of the charts, where Sia and Flight Facilities remain in the top two spots (for 1000 Forms Of Fear and Down To Earth respectively), while Chet Faker overtakes… himself… to see his iTunes Session (#3) outrate Thinking In Textures (#4). Old mates Sticky Fingers and Land Of Pleasure round out the top five.

Similarly, the camera-shy Sia is still a top concern in the Singles stakes, with Elastic Heart and Chandelier both staying strong at #1 and #3 respectively, split by Faker's Talk Is Cheap (#2). The Gold scribe features a few times this week, with that song grabbing #6, 1998 taking #9, and Drop The Game, his collaboration with Flume, up three places on last week to #14. Hayden James and Something About You are also up this week, two spots to #4, while freshly minted Tonight Show alumni Sheppard maintain course with Geronimo holding fast at #5.

There are a handful of re-entries to the top 20 on both charts this week, too, as SAFIA claw their way back into the bracket at #18 for their single You Are The One, and albums from both the John Butler Trio (Flesh & Blood) and The Smith Street Band (Sunshine & Technology) return to take #18 and #19 on the full-length ladder.