Welcome back folks for another SubModern Report. It's the end of July and I've returned to good health. Once again, there are three #1's this week with a pair tied at the top the album chart. Congrats to Johnny Marr and Sylvan Esso, both with upcoming records releasing second tracks (The Age of Everything and Ow ∞), thusly becoming eligible here. Both of those tracks in question will show up in the top ten singles, but there's only one #1 single this week and it's from a band that's been around for as long as I have - Echo & The Bunnymen! Their new tune "Brussels Is Haunted" is the first taste of their just-announced thirteenth album (and first in a dozen years).

Detroit's Protomartyr comes in at #2 with the debut of "Sounds We Cannot Hear". Then we have Johnny Marr's "Ophelia" tied at #3 with "Hourglass" by King Falcon, while Sylvan Esso's "Concrete Glen" is tied at #5 with last week's #1, "Easy Street" by Queens of The Stone Age. Next comes a three-way tie at #7, including The Afghan Whigs with "My Lover", Deep Sea Diver's cover of "Teardrop", and "Indu" by Greg Freeman. That leaves just one to close the top ten - "Cold", the latest offering from Chelsea Wolfe's forthcoming record.

On the album chart, the two records that were tied for #1 last week are not tied this week, but come sequentially right after the two that are tied this week. That's Yard Act's You're Gonna Need A Little Music at #3 and Sweeping Promises' You Say I Romanticize at #4. After that the entire remainder of the top ten is a six-way tie at #5, featuring albums from Boy Harsher, Brennan Wedl, IAN SWEET, Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Loft, and The Strokes.

If you want to unravel that and go even further down both charts, you can do that HERE. And of course there's a new batch of tunes Available For Airplay, including tracks by Blonde Redhead, Dexys Midnight Runners, Fort Frances, Katrina Ford, and Stef Chura, as well as full lengths from Arca, Cheekface, Flagship, Love Spells, and more.

Before I sign off today, just wanted to express deep condolences to all who knew Glen Hansard or have been touched by his music. Same goes for French electronic artist Kavinsky. Both artists gone far too soon.

~ Josh T. Landow