Triple J Faves Vallis Alps Land Two Debuts On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

Canberra/Seattle-bred electronic duo and recent triple j additions Vallis Alps have emerged as the best-performing new act on the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts this week, earning a double debut on the Singles ladder with Young and their self-titled EP, which step out at #6 and #18 respectively.

Interestingly, the pair's new entries mark the only debuts on the Singles chart for the week, in a bracket fairly scant on fresh faces in general: San Cisco, Twerps and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took home #5, #18 and #20 in the radio-play stakes for respective singles Too Much Time Together, Back To You and Hot Water, while the Albums chart also manages two new entrants: A Night In Texas' The God Delusion arrives at #8, while Roland Tings' self-titled full-length just misses out on a top-10 place, entering the charts at #12.

Otherwise, the charts remain largely steady, though Canberran electro outfit SAFIA make a decent northward leap, from #17 to #12, with You Are The One, freshly in the spotlight following their social-media beef with the director of a recent Ariana Grande clip. However, for most of the week's high performers movement is an alien concept as Sia's Elastic Heart hangs onto top spot for another week, as do the remainder of the top five: respectively, Chet Faker's Talk Is Cheap, Sia's Chandelier, Hayden James' Something About You and Sheppard's Geronimo.

Similarly, the pointy end of the Albums ladder is largely inert, though Chet Faker leaps over Flight Facilities to see his iTunes Session (#2) overtake Down To Earth (#3), creating a Faker sandwich of sorts as Thinking In Textures slots in at #4 once again. Sticky Fingers' Land Of Pleasure, too, keeps on giving at #5, but none of the past few weeks' top five full-lengths can budge the unassailable Sia and 1000 Forms Of Fear, dominant once again at #1.