Dry Cleaning top UK Record Store Chart with New Long Leg
Dry Cleaning top UK Record Store Chart with New Long Leg
The debut Dry Cleaning album has climbed on its second week.
Dry Cleaning’s New Long Leg has jumped up a place to top the latest UK Record Store Chart.
It leaves last week’s number one – W.l. from The Snuts – at #4, whilst Andy Bell is new at #10 with The Indica Gallery EP, a collection of remixes from his debut solo album The View From Halfway Down.
It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with the band delivering a remote, in-studio performance of ‘Get Famous’ from latest album ‘Getting Into Knives’.
“One thing we might have done in an alternate-timeline 2020 was perform some “Getting Into Knives” tunes as they were tracked: with 8 people crammed in a room playing together,” the band wrote on Instagram when sharing the clip.
“Nice to get the chance to do one for
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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With their performance of ‘Get Famous’, the Mountain Goats are return guests to
Colbert. Back in 2019, the band appeared on the show to perform ‘Sicilian Crest’ from their previous studio album, ‘In League with Dragons’.
The Mountain Goats released two albums in 2020: Aprilâs
Songs for Pierre Chuvin, which Darnielle recorded alone on his boombox, and Octoberâs
Getting Into Knives. In July, they joined fellow North Carolinians Superchunk, Iron & Wine, Hiss Golden Messenger, and more in covering their favorite songs for a compilation to benefit the Carrboro, North Carolina, music venue Catâs Cradle.
Dear Lindsay, Brittany, and 2020’s guest Music Clubbers,
Last year, the likes of Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish suggested a potential new musical dawn, from a new generation, and maybe a fresh matching energy in society, if it could hold on long enough. Then came 2020, and that light at the tunnel’s end turned out to be a freight train. It’s hard to cast a vast surveying gaze across the cultural landscape when for months you’ve dived down and flattened yourself against the tracks, holding your breath in hopes that the steel wheels on either side will pass you by and the undercarriage won’t snag you and drag you around the next bend. At best you can strain to detect more distant vibrations amid the general clatter and roar.