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*BRAND NEW NUMBER ONE* - King Krule “Dum Surfer”



Brief Commentary~

Anne Erin "Annie" Clark aka St. Vincent is cruelly locked out of the #1 this week after what seemed like an almost inevitable ascendency to pole position with “Los Ageless” after climbing to #2 last week; in the event she fails to surpass the recent 7-week chart champ from Southend-On-Sea's The Horrors (“Something To Remember Me By” who themselves are deposed and decline 1-2 on their 12th charting week) - she does however match her highest ever peak (#2) with “Digital Witness” in March 2014, that unlucky runner-up was blocked from the penthouse by debut Young Fathers hit “Get Up” who incidentally returned in emphatic style last week with the highest debut of 2017, and highest debut since Foals launched in at #21 back in June 2015. “Lord” their new single from an as-yet untitled third LP sprints 23-12.

The new number 1 - the seventeenth of 2017 - comes from another British artist - namely 23 year-old Archy Ivan Marshall, aka King Krule. Marshall's 3rd LP The Ooz was released last month and the second single taken from it “Dum Surfer” has moved swiftly 37-25-15-4-1 to give him his first number 1 hit on the DB chart. He has strong competition in the Top 10 however, from the aforementioned St. Vincent but also Superorganism who leap 8-4 with their incredibly addictive debut T10 hit “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”, Django Django with a fourth T10 in “Tic Tac Toe” (up 10-6) and new Top 10 entrants for MGMT (their first Top 10 for well over 7 years) and Jus Now & Dismantle with “Little Dark Age” 15-8 and “Spotie” 14-9. “Spotie” remains a white label instrumental for the time being but continues to receive strong club play and evening airplay from Radio 1 and looks set to be a big hit over the late autumn period.

Six new entries break the chart including the highest from Karin Elisabeth Dreijer, one half of eclectic electronic duo The Knife - currently recording solo as Fever Ray with the energetic “To The Moon And Back” in at 35. This week's biggest climber is from Charlotte Gainsbourg and the brilliant “Deadly Valentine” which catapults sixteen places from 36-20.

Full chart below and as ever thank you for reading and I welcome any comments/suggestions of new music to check out! : )



Doctor Blind Chart - 12th November 2017




TW - LW / Artist / “Song” // Chart Run (Wks on Chart)

01 - 04 King Krule “Dum Surfer” *New #1* // 37-25-15-04-01 (5 weeks)
02 - 01 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By” // 40-22-11-05-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-02 (12 weeks)
03 - 02 St. Vincent “Los Ageless” // 40-24-14-07-02-03 (6 weeks)
04 - 08 Superorganism “Something For Your M.I.N.D.” // 40-31-27-19-17-08-04 (7 weeks)
05 - 03 Ariel Pink “Feels Like Heaven” // 44-30-21-17-12-07-03-02-03-05 (10 weeks)
06 - 10 Django Django “Tic Tac Toe” // 38-29-18-10-06 (5 weeks)
07 - 05 Rostam “Bike Dream” // 40-32-23-14-10-03-05-07 (8 weeks)
08 - 15 MGMT “Little Dark Age” // 41-28-15-08 (4 weeks)
09 - 14 Jus Now & Dismantle “Spotie” // 45-30-22-14-09 (5 weeks)
10 - 06 Rae Morris “Do It” // 36-24-15-08-05-06-04-06-10 (9 weeks)




11 - 17 Arcade Fire “Creature Comfort” // 44-35-25-17-11 (5 weeks)
12 - 23 Young Fathers “Lord” // 23-12 (2 weeks)
13 - 07 The xx “Dangerous” // 38-26-18-12-09-07-13 (7 weeks)
14 - 09 Kate Tempest “Tunnel Vision” // 38-28-19-11-06-02-02-05-09-14 (10 weeks)
15 - 13 Yaeji “Drink I’m Sippin On” // 46-32-24-20-13-15 (6 weeks)
16 - 19 Julien Baker “Turn Out The Lights” // 36-24-19-16 (4 weeks)
17 - 22 CID RIM & Petite Noir “Swnerve” // 47-33-22-17 (4 weeks)
18 - 26 Everything Everything “Night of the Long Knives” // 40-26-18 (3 weeks)
19 - 11 Lamb “Illumina” // 46-31-21-14-09-05-08-11-18 (9 weeks)
20 - 36 Charlotte Gainsbourg “Deadly Valentine” // 36-20 (2 weeks) *Biggest Climber*

21 - 12 Classixx “Possessive” // 40-32-26-20-16-11-08-10-12-21 (10 weeks)
22 - 30 SOPHIE “It's Okay To Cry” // 38-30-22 (3 weeks)
23 - 32 Maggie Rogers “Split Stones” // 46-37-32-23 (4 weeks)
24 - 18 Los Planetas “Islamabad” // 49-37-29-22-15-12-18-24 (8 weeks)
25 - 27 Kah-Lo “Fasta” // 49-42-30-27-25 (5 weeks)
26 - 21 Perfume Genius “Wreath” // 42-35-28-25-22-19-16-11-21-26 (10 weeks)
27 - 16 Wolf Alice “Don’t Delete The Kisses” // 48-38-29-23-19-12-04-06-16-27 (10 weeks)
28 - 20 Confidence Man “Boyfriend (Repeat)” // 49-37-25-14-08-04-02-03-03-07-13-20-28 (13 weeks)
29 - 44 Porches “Find Me” // 44-29 (2 weeks)
30 - 25 TR/ST “Bicep” // 37-27-17-08-04-02-04-09-16-25-30 (11 weeks)

31 - 41 Floating Points “Ratio” // 41-31 (2 weeks)
32 - 37 Indian Wells “It’s Where The World Ends” // 37-32 (2 weeks)
33 - 24 Beck “Up All Night” // 40-32-26-24-33 (5 weeks)
34 - 29 Ride “Cali” // 48-39-27-19-14-10-07-04-06-11-19-29-34 (13 weeks)
35 - NE Fever Ray “To The Moon And Back” *Highest New Entry*
36 - 28 Rationale “Loving Life” // 46-33-32-25-18-14-28-36 (8 weeks)
37 - 46 Alex Cameron “Runnin’ Outta Luck” // 46-37 (2 weeks)
38 - 43 Mogwai “Crossing The Road Material” // 48-43-38 (3 weeks)
39 - 47 The Go! Team “Semicircle Song” // 47-39 (2 weeks)
40 - 31 LCD Soundsystem “Tonite” // 34-24-15-09-04-02-03-05-08-13-21-31-40 (13 weeks)

41 - 35 Indian Wells “Cascades” // 49-35-23-14-07-03-01-01-01-02-02-05-08-11-15-20-27-35-41 (19 weeks)
42 - 34 Sufjan Stevens “Wallowa Lake Monster” // 43-36-34-42 (4 weeks)
43 - NE Queens of the Stone Age “Feet Don’t Fail Me” *New Entry*
44 - NE PINS “Serve The Rich” *New Entry*
45 - 33 Sparks “Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)” // 50-43-36-27-23-33-45 (7 weeks)
46 - NE Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile “Continental Breakfast” *New Entry*
47 - 38 Baths “Out” // 50-42-38-47 (4 weeks)
48 - 39 The National “Guilty Party” // 49-32-15-08-04-03-03-01-01-03-06-09-17-23-32-39-48 (17 weeks)
49 - NE Four Tet “Scientists” *New Entry*
50 - NE Franz Ferdinand “Always Ascending” *New Entry*

*HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* - Fever Ray “To The Moon And Back” at #35


*HIGHEST CLIMBER - UP SIXTEEN PLACES* - Charlotte Gainsbourg “Deadly Valentine” at #20


#01s of 2017

01-01-17 Bonobo “Kerala”
08-01-17 Bonobo “Kerala”
15-01-17 Bonobo “Kerala”
22-01-17 Run The Jewels “Legend Has It”
29-01-17 Run The Jewels “Legend Has It”
05-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
12-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
19-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
26-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
05-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
12-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
19-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
26-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
02-04-17 Sylvan Esso “Kick Jump Twist”
09-04-17 Sylvan Esso “Kick Jump Twist”
16-04-17 Lorde “Green Light”
23-04-17 Lorde “Green Light”
30-04-17 alt-J “3WW”
07-05-17 Perfume Genius “Slip Away”
14-05-17 Perfume Genius “Slip Away”
21-05-17 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny”
28-05-17 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny”
04-06-17 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny”
11-06-17 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream”
18-06-17 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream”
25-06-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
02-07-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
09-07-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
16-07-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
23-07-17 Arcade Fire “Everything Now”
30-07-17 Arcade Fire “Everything Now”
06-08-17 The xx “I Dare You”
13-08-17 The xx “I Dare You”
20-08-17 Indian Wells “Cascades”
27-08-17 Indian Wells “Cascades”
03-09-17 Indian Wells “Cascades”
10-09-17 The National “Guilty Party”
17-09-17 The National “Guilty Party”
24-09-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
01-10-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
08-10-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
15-10-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
22-10-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
29-10-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
05-11-17 The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”
12-11-17 King Krule “Dum Surfer”