Splendour's Japanese Wallpaper Makes Top-10 Debut On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

It'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.

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).