Just Mustard score their first Top 20 album with Heart Under

Just Mustard have landed in the Top 20 on the Official Irish Albums Chart for the first time – with their new album, Heart Under, debuting at No.17.

The Dundalk band's second studio album – and their first since signing to Partisan Records – was described as a "thoroughly fascinating record" in Will Russell's review of the album for Hot Press.

"Comparisons to Seventeen Seconds-era Cure will also rightly be made, and there’s a good dollop of Aphex Twin in the mix as well," Russell wrote. "Regardless, the best advice is to quit the taxonomy, and explore the fresh territory this remarkable band are mapping."

They join the likes of Fontaines D.C., IDLES, John Grant and Laura Marling at Partisan Records, having signed to the Brooklyn and London-based label last year.

“Our plan was to make an album in 2020 and get it out,” Just Mustard's guitarist, David Noonan, recently told Hot Press. “When the pandemic hit, there were vinyl delays and stuff. Partisan said, ‘There’s no point rushing – it’s not going to come out any time soon. Take your time.’ They gave us space to do that. We didn’t feel we were rushing it. We did the bulk of recording in October 2020 and spent from then until April finishing it. And then Katie re-did all the vocals.”

Elsewhere on the chart, Liam Gallagher's C'mon You Know is this week's highest new entry, at No.2, behind Harry Styles's Harry's House, which enjoys a second week at No.1.

Gallagher's new album was also the biggest seller on this week's chart, in both physical sales and digital downloads.

Def Leppard's new album, Diamond Star Halos, debuts at No.25.

On the Official Irish Singles Chart, meanwhile, Harry Styles scores a 9th week at No.1 with 'As It Was'.

Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' is at No.10, following its inclusion in the new series of Stranger Things.