Before we get to this week’s Top 25 chart from Park Ave (OMG, did Kreator really sell more than Edward Sharpe last week? HUZZAH!), please permit this public service announcement.

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POP ETC (formerly known as the Morning Benders) is doing an in-store on Monday, Aug. 6 at 5:30. You should go. The new record doesn’t sound all that much like the Morning Benders; for me, that’s a bad thing, but you may disagree.

Now, on to the charts:

  1. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
  2. Passion Pit – Gossamer
  3. Purity Ring – Shrines
  4. Baroness – Yellow & Green
  5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Americana
  6. Soundtrack – Moonrise Kingdom
  7. Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back
  8. The Antlers – Undersea (12″ Vinyl)
  9. Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth
  10. Om – Advaitic Songs
  11. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
  12. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
  13. Various – Vans Warped Tour ’12 Compilation
  14. Jellyfish – Live At Bogart’s 1991
  15. Mumford & Sons – Sign No More
  16. Jack White – Blunderbuss
  17. Sugar – Copper Blue+Beaster (Deluxe Reissue)
  18. Jeff The Brotherhood – Hypnotic Nights
  19. Alberta Cross – Songs Of Patience
  20. Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
  21. Pierce The Veil – Collide With The Sky
  22. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
  23. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here
  24. Chappo – Moonwater
  25. J.D. McPherson – Signs & Signifiers

This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2012.