Melb Hardcore Band Beat King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard To Top Debut On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

Melburnian workhorses King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard might be focusing hard on putting together the final touches on forthcoming mini-festival series GIZZFEST, but they can focus with an extra-wide smile on their faces following the news that their sixth LP, Quarters, stepped out comfortably inside the top 10 on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts.

The psychedelic garage legends actually earn the week's second-highest new entry point with their debut at #8, however, with fledgling Victorian hardcore outfit Earth Caller storming out ahead with their new full-length, Degenerate, which tops the debut pile this week with an entry just outside the top five, at #6.

Also freshly ranked this week are Aussie stage star Patrice Tipoki, who steps out at #12 with A Musical Heart, and mononymous hip hop upstart Ry, not far behind with Ivory Coast at #16. Interestingly, every new album on the chart this week placed higher than any debut over in the Singles stakes, with Melissa Tkautz's Gotta Let You Go picking up top honours on that list at #17, just ahead of sole other new face John Butler and Ocean, at #18.

Sia maintains her place in top spot across both Albums and Singles charts with 1000 Forms Of Fear and Big Girls Cry, respectively, also occupying spots #3 (Elastic Heart), #6 (Chandelier) and #16 (Fire Meet Gasoline) on the latter ladder. Hermitude (The Buzz, featuring Mataya and Young Tapz) hangs strong at #2, while both What So Not and Safia enjoy bumps up for their respective cuts Gemini (now #4) and Counting Sheep (now #5).

Similarly, the Albums chart is all about the movers and shakers — Flight Facilities' Down To Earth jumps three spots to #3, just behind Courtney Barnett's consistent Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (#2), while Thundamentals see So We Can Remember lift four places to #5 (San Cisco stay put at #4 with Gracetown). Most impressively, we see The Delta Riggs clamber up a whopping 13 spots from the top-20 borderline to #7 with their full-length Dipz Zebazios; of all the other incumbent albums, only Karnivool's classic Themata comes close to making comparable waves — it's up six spots from #19 to #13.