First Aid Kit at the Leeds O2 Academy (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
It’s First Aid Kit’s first new album in over four years.
First Aid Kit have topped the latest UK Record Store Chart with Palomino.
The Prodigy’s nineties’ classic The Fat Of The Land is another high new entry, while Ride have three releases in the Top 20 this week – Nowhere, Going Blank Again and 4 EPs.
A decade ago, The Official Charts Company began compiling the UK Record Store Chart to reflect the boom in vinyl sales which had begun during the previous decade. Its figures are taken from the best-selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ (new) First Aid Kit – Palomino
2/ (new) The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land
3/ (new) Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant To Be
4/ (new) Luke Evans – A Song For You
5/ (new) Cavetown – Worm Foo
6/ (new) Crawlers – Loud Without Noise
7/ (new) Ride – Nowhere
8/ (new) Daniel Avery – Ultra Trut
9/ (new) Ride – Going Blank Again
10/ (new) Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures
11/ (new) Ride – 4 EPs
12/ (new) Big Joanie – Back Home
13/ (new) Tourist – Inside Out
14/ (new) Ricky Ross – Short Stories Vol 2
15/ Arctic Monkeys – The Car
16/ Taylor Swift – Midnights
17/ The Beatles – Revolver
18/ (new) Bernard Butler – Live At Rough Trade East
19/ (new) PJ Harvey – B-sides Demos & Rarities
20/ (new) Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights