Japanese WallpaperIt's a week of achievement for freshly announced Splendour In The Grass must-see act Japanese Wallpaper, with the up-and-coming Melburnian muso — known to his mum as Gab Strum — walking away with a top-10 debut on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts with his new single Forces (feat. Airling), coming in at #8.
Strum doesn't quite make the highest debut of the week — that honour goes to multiple chart entrant Sia, whose Big Girls Cry steps out at #3, coming in a rung below previous single Elastic Heart (#2) — but he is the only other top-10 placer for the next seven days, though Moog isn't far off, with the Chasing Midnight EP netting the Sydney-bred producer the #12 spot. Former Butterfly Effect frontman Clint Boge rounds out the Singles debuts for the week, with Dance With The Devil skating into the top 20 at #17.
It's a much quieter week on the full-length ladder for new faces, as Ziggy Alberts makes the sole debutant effort with Land & Sea at #15, though San Cisco's eponymous debut LP makes an impressive leap back into the top 20, landing at #5 after several weeks outside the rankings to come in just one spot below their sophomore effort, Gracetown, which slips down a rung to #4.
That drop comes courtesy of a resurgent Sheppard, whose Bombs Away jumps six places from #9 to #3, while the top two contenders swap spots this week — Courtney Barnett's Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit is down to #2, giving way to previous top entry 1000 Forms Of Fear, by Sia, which reclaims its position atop the pile this week.
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However, despite the steadiness of the Albums chart, there are a fair few new entrants in the Radio Play stakes, led by Broadway Sounds and Sing It Again at #6; they're joined by Ben Wright Smith (No One, #14), Sheppard (A Grade Playa, #15) and Tiger Choir (Shani, #19).
