NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of May 1

1. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

2. Supersuckers Motherfuckers be Trippin' (Mid-Fi)

3. Murder City Devils R.I.P. (Sub Pop)

4. Visqueen King Me (Blue Disguise)

5. The Thermals More Parts Per Million (Sub Pop)

6. Maktub Khronos (OSSiA)

7. Damien Jurado Where Shall You Take Me? (Secretly Canadian)

8. A-Frames A-Frames (SS/Dragnet)

9. The Divorce The Divorce (Fugitive)

10. FCS North Vocabulary (Luckyhorse Industries)

11. The Lights The Lights EP (Bop Tart)

12. Bend Carpooltunnel (Self-release)

13. Postal Service Such Great Heights (Sub Pop)

14. Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)

15. Neko Case Blacklisted (Mint)

16. Vells Vells EP (Luckyhorse Industries)

17. The Long Winters When I Pretend to Fall (Barsuk)

18. The Pale Gravity Gets Things Done (Always Never)

19. Kinski Airs Above Your Station (Sub Pop)

20. Bill Frisell The Intercontinentals (Nonesuch)

Compiled from figures at Easy Street Records (West Seattle and Queen Anne), Orpheum, Singles Going Steady, and Sonic Boom (Capitol Hill, Ballard, and Fremont).