In news to hopefully lift your mood to the max, it's a huge week on the ARIA Albums chart for Aussie artists, with Melbourne future soul legends Hiatus Kaiyote debuting at #4 with their scintillating third album Mood Valiant.
Marking the jazz-funk quartet's first full-length release in six years, Mood Valiant provides a fearless follow-up to their 2015 smash Choose Your Weapon, which peaked at number #22 on the Australian chart at the time.
Mood Valiant is the band's first-ever Top 10 debut and is the highest-ranking Aussie release on the ARIA Albums chart this week.
Meanwhile, fellow locals The Veronicas snagged #5 for their gentler glossy pop work on Human and Melbourne garage rockers The Murlocs swept in at #6 with their fifth album, Bittersweet Demons.
For The Veronicas, it's the pair's second appearance in the Top 10 in the space of a few short months, following their #7 peak for the slightly more acerbic bops on Godzilla released back in May this year.
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Bittersweet Demons marks the first time The Murlocs have cracked the Top 10, following their 2017 album Old Locomotive hitting #15, and 2019's Manic Candid Episode sweeping into #16.
Still in Albums territory, Olivia Rodrigo holds onto #1 for the sixth week in a row.
And as for what's shaking over on the Singles chart? As predicted, Ed Sheeran claims his sixth chart-topping single in Australia, debuting at #1 with Bad Habits, aka Sheeran's take on a post-pandemic club tune.
