Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses Make Top-Five Entry On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

29 July 2015 | 1:28 pm | Staff Writer

The veteran Aussie muso and his band put their surprisingly strong feet forward with the week's highest debut

Stalwart Australian singer-songwriter Tex Perkins and his band The Dark Horses have claimed the highest debut spot on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, with their new album Tunnel At The End Of The Light making a strong entry atop this week's pile of fresh faces to take the #5 spot.

In the full-lengths stakes, the achievement is extra-notable as Perkins & The Dark Horses make up half the new entrants for the week, coming in solidly ahead of their nearest competitors, Full Tote Odds, whose The Chosen Few makes its way into the top 20 at #17. Although Flight Facilities made a decent jump (three spots) to once again crack the top five and settle at #4, it was unlikely Tex & Co were going to break the glass ceiling laid down by dominant incumbents Seth Sentry (Strange New Past, #3), Hermitude (Dark Night, Sweet Light, #2) and Sia (1000 Forms Of Fear, #1), who all remain unmoved for another week.

However, had The Dark Horses been releasing a single this week, they'd have had a harder run for their money — Emily Williams leads the cabal of new entrants with The Way It Is, inside the top 10 at #7. Flight Facilities also welcome another track onto the charts with Heart Attack, featuring Owl Eyes — that picks up #15 — while Airling rounds out the newcomers for the week with Stallin', which makes it in at the #20 cutoff.

Impressively, the Singles top five is made up of only two acts this week: Hermitude take #2 and #3 with The Buzz (feat. Mataya & Young Tapz) and Searchlight (feat. Yeo), while Sia sits pretty at #1 (Elastic Heart), #4 (Big Girls Cry) and #5 (Chandelier).

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