The Cribs on gatecrashing the Top 10 with their first three albums: “It’s perverse!”
nme.comThe Cribs have spoken to NME about how “perverse” it seems that their first three albums have re-entered the Top 10, as well as sharing some thoughts on the “indie sleaze” phenomenon.The Wakefield indie-punk trio are currently playing a run of intimate shows across the UK after re-issuing their first three records – 2004 debut ‘The Cribs’, 2005 follow-up ‘The New Fellas’ and 2007’s ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’.Now in the midweek album charts, their debut is at Number Eight, ‘The New Fellas’ is at Number Seven, and their breakthrough third album has crashed into the Top Five at Number Four – just beneath new releases by Maggie Rogers and Harry Styles, and Beyoncé’s latest effort ‘Renaissance’.“We’ve been so busy playing multiple shows a day and haven’t really had any days off, so we haven’t really had chance to process it yet – but it’s certainly not what we were expecting when we did these reissues,” frontman Ryan Jarman told NME. “The fundamental reason for doing these reissues was because the vinyl had been out of print for such a long time.“We didn’t expect anything like this, but it’s amazing.
We really appreciate it because it means that people still care about the records. That’s not always going to be a given, all this time down the line.
It’s been a pretty crazy last couple of days. We’re so psyched.”With even ‘Men’s Needs’ topping its previous chart high of Number 13, Jarman said that it was “surreal” to see the records at such peaks given their humble origins.“The first albums came out right in the heart of the whole file-sharing era so they didn’t really chart at all,” he said.
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