Swans (Photo: Monica Dee)
Post-punk US band Swans are at number one on the UK Record Store Chart this week with their twelfth studio LP ‘The Seer‘.
Elbow‘s new b-sides collection ‘Dead In The Boot‘ debuts at #2, with Of Monsters And Men‘s well received ‘My Head Is An Animal‘ record one more place back at #3, while Bloc Party‘s comeback album ‘Four‘ is at no.4 on the chart which is compiled entirely by sales registered at the UK’s independent record stores.
UK Record Store Album Chart, Top 20:
1/ Swans – ‘The Seer’
2/ Elbow – ‘Dead In The Boot’
3/ Of Monsters And Men – ‘My Head Is An Animal’
4/ Bloc Party – ‘Four’
5/ Bill Fay – ‘Life Is People’
6/ The Black Keys – ‘El Camino’
7/ Dan Deacon – ‘America’
8/ Alt-J – ‘An Awesome Wave’
9/ Emeli Sande – ‘Our Version Of Events’
10/ Robert Cray Band – ‘Nothin’ But Love’
11/ Jessie Ware – ‘Devotion’
12/ Holy Other – ‘Held’
13/ Ry Cooder – ‘Election Special’
14/ The Darkness – ‘Hot Cakes’
15/ Paloma Faith – ‘Fall To Grace’
16/ The Gaslight Anthem – ‘Handwritten’
17/ Yeasayer – ‘Fragrant World’
18/ Rita Ora – ‘Ora’
19/ Wild Nothing – ‘Nocturne’
20/ Karine Polwart – ‘Traces’
