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Architects win close battle to secure their first Number 1 album with For Those That Wish To Exist
05 March 2021
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Architects claim their first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart following an exceptionally close race for this week’s top spot which sees an all-new Top 5.
The Brighton metalcore band’s ninth album For Those That Wish To Exist finishes the week just 550 chart sales ahead of their closest competition, Maximo Park and their new record Nature Always Wins (2).
For Architects, it’s not only their first chart-topper, but first Top 10 album too; their previous peak was Number 15 with 2016’s All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us.
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In the months ahead, we will see what impact the state of suspended animation that defined 2020 has had upon the release schedule of 2021. This column expects an even greater surge in deluxe reissues given the relative ease of production. News has already started to emerge, however, about delays in the manufacturing and release process thanks to the glistening sunlit uplands of Brexit.
With increased delivery times from certain EU plants, many labels are switching to the limited options closer to home and this is leading to sizeable lead times for established plants like
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As far as tributes go, Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is an impressive one. The 15-track album is an homage to his hometown, the city in question. But listening to it, you get the sense that this is far more than simple nostalgia, wrapped up in Cooper’s signature tones.
Tracks like Our Love Will Change The World and $1000 High Heel Shoes certainly perk up the ears with an audible departure from the signature Alice Cooper sound. But then the entire album listens like a road trip through the journey that informed his own musical makings in the city often credited as the birthplace of Motown.
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From The Strokes to Le Tigre and PJ Harvey to The White Stripes, these out-and-out bangers stood the test of time. Let s have a little nostalgia, shall we?
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The very beginning of the noughties often gets ragged on for being a bit shit for good music. In the case of the year 2000, in terms of rock’n’roll, that’s pretty much justified, but by 2001 things were starting to turn around. Two decades ago we got the emergence of The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the continued rise of The White Stripes and Gorillaz taking us into the future, among others. Not so bad at all!
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