I don't know how it happened, but we're halfway through October already! As always, welcome to another SubModern Report where this week we have two new #1's atop the charts. The #1 single is "Forever Elsewhere" by Weird Nightmare, which is Alex Edkins of METZ. The #1 album is Belong from Jay Som, her first in six years, which includes "Past Lives" (#5t), featuring Hayley Williams, who's been showing up just about everywhere lately.

The next two spots on both charts are conveniently occupied by the same artists - Sorry is at #2 with "Today Might Be The Hit" and the forthcoming COSPLAY, while Joyce Manor is at #3 with "Well, Whatever It Was" and the just-announced I Used To Go To This Bar.

The charts diverge at #4 so we'll start with the singles chart where last week's #1 single, Dry Cleaning's "Hit My Head All Day", occupies that spot. Tied with the aforementioned Jay Som track at #5 is Witch Post's first single for Partisan Records, "Changeling". There's another tie at #7 between "Nose Bleed" by Flagship and "Blue Eyes" by Freak Slug. And then the top ten closes with a three-way tie at #9, including Alice Merton's "Ignorance", Fcukers' "I Like It Like That", and Snõõper's "Worldwide".

That last one is the title track off Snõõper's sophomore record that debuted in a three-way tie on the album chart this week, alongside Getting Killed from Geese and the #1 of the last two weeks, All That Is Over from Sprints. Freak Slug's upcomg EP Loose Tooth And A Short Skirt debuted at #7, ahead of a tie between Automatic's Is It Now? and Madi Diaz's Fatal Optimist at #8. That leaves a top ten closing four-way tie at #10, featuring all yet-to-be-released records - Running With Scissors from Cavetown, Lightning Might Strike from Juliana Hatfield, We Were Just Here from Just Mustard, and Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan from The Mountain Goats.

If you want to delve deeper into the charts, you can do so HERE and see all the upcoming releases for the week on the Available For Airplay list. There are new albums dropping from bar italia, The Barr Brothers (no other bars), Brògeal, The Cords, Dear Boy, The Last Dinner Party, Militarie Gun, Poliça, Say She She, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, and They Are Gutting A Body of Water, as well as singles by Courtney Barnett, Ezra Furman, Lala Lala, Oliver Sim, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Sugar (YES!, that Sugar), and a lot more.

That oughtta keep you busy til we meet again next week.

~ Josh T. Landow