01-08-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Dec 29 - Jan 4   

Add Date: Jan. 8     

NOTE: KEXP's charts include albums that have not been released to the public yet, but have been made available to KEXP for airplay. 

Top 90:  

  1. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  3. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  4. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  5. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  6. Melenas - Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
  7. Shabazz Palaces - Robed In Rareness (Sub Pop)
  8. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  9. Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
  10. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
  11. Empress Of - “Femenine” (Major Arcana/Giant Music)
  12. Francis of Delirium - Lighthouse (Dalliance Recordings)
  13. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  14. MGMT - Loss Of Life (Mom+Pop)
  15. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
  16. Gen and the Degenerates - Anti-Fun Propaganda (Marshall Records)
  17. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (Third Man)
  18. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  19. MIKE - Burning Desire (10k)
  20. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  21. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  22. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly) 
  23. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  24. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  25. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple (PIAS)
  26. Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  27. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  28. André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic)
  29. Actress - LXXXVIII (Ninja Tune)
  30. 070 Shake - “Black Dress” / “Natural Habitat” (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam)
  31. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  32. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  33. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge)
  34. Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine (Deluxe) (Transgressive)
  35. Nouvelle Vague - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (PIAS)
  36. Oh, Rose - “Back 2 U” (self-released)
  37. Sleaford Mods - “West End Girls” (Rough Trade)
  38. Still Corners- “Secret World” (Wrecking Light)
  39. Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again (Gracie Music/AWAL)
  40. Jamila Woods - Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)
  41. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  42. Wimps - City Lights (Youth Riot)
  43. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  44. Malummí - The Universe is Black (Irascible)
  45. Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day (AWAL)
  46. HotWax - Invite Me, Kindly (Marathon Artist)
  47. Sinego - Alterego (Sinego Music)
  48. Ana Frango Elétrico - Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua (Mr Bongo)
  49. Sunsick Daisy - Breathe In… Breathe Out EP (self-released)
  50. deary - deary EP (Sonic Cathedral Recordings)
  51. H31R - HeadSpace (Big Dada)
  52. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)
  53. Björk - “Oral (feat. ROSALÍA)” (One Little Independent)
  54. English Teacher - “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab” / “Nearly Daffodils” (Island)
  55. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  56. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  57. Wonder 45 - “Cry” (Big AC)
  58. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  59. Devon Ross - Oxford Gardens EP (Daydream Library)
  60. SPRINTS - Letter to Self (City Slang)
  61. freekind. - Since Always and Forever (Butter92)
  62. Nusantara Beat - “Kota Bandung/Layung” (Bongo Joe)
  63. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  64. TR/ST - “Robrash” (Dais Records)
  65. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (PIAS)
  66. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  67. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  68. Wishy - Paradise EP (Winspear)
  69. Beirut - Hadsel (Pompeii) 
  70. Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)
  71. DRAMA - Till We Die EP (self-released) 
  72. Keys N Krates - IN:TENSION (MNRK/Last Gang)
  73. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Fronzoli (What Reality?
  74. SIPHO. - Prayers & Paranoia (Dirty Hit)
  75. IAN SWEET - SUCKER (Polyvinyl)
  76. ill peach - THIS IS NOT AN EXIT (Hardly Art)
  77. Babebee - A Prophecy EP (Epitaph)
  78. HEALTH - RAT WARS (Loma Vista)
  79. The Veldt - Illuminated 1989 (Little Cloud/5BC)
  80. The Halluci Nation - Path Of The Heel EP (Radicalized Records)
  81. Kurt Vile - Back to Moon Beach EP (Verve)
  82. DJ Shadow - Action Adventure (Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber)
  83. Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy)
  84. Brigitte Calls Me Baby - This House is Made of Corners (ATO)
  85. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  86. James Blake - Playing Robots into Heaven (Polydor)
  87. Romy - MID AIR (Young)
  88. Angelica Garcia - “El Que” / “Y Grito” (Partisan)
  89. DEBBY FRIDAY - “let u in” (Sub Pop)
  90. Dina Ögon - “Det läker” (Playground Music)

Americana: 

  1. Beirut - Hadsel (Pompeii) 
  2. Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)
  3. Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy)
  4. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  5. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  6. Big Thief - “Vampire Empire / Born For Loving You” (4AD)
  7. Muireann Bradley - I Kept These Old Blues (Tompkins Square)
  8. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  9. Jaime Wyatt - Feel Good (New West) 
  10. Michael Nau -  Accompany (Colemine/Karma Chief)

Global: 

  1. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  2. Empress Of - “Femenine” (Major Arcana/Giant Music)
  3. Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  4. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  5. Sinego - Alterego (Sinego Music)
  6. Ana Frango Elétrico - Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua (Mr Bongo)
  7. Nusantara Beat - “Kota Bandung/Layung” (Bongo Joe)
  8. Angelica Garcia - “El Que” / “Y Grito” (Partisan)
  9. La Dame Blanche - Atomica (Nacional)
  10. OKAN - Okantomi (Lulaworld)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Shabazz Palaces - Robed In Rareness (Sub Pop)
  2. Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
  3. MIKE - Burning Desire (10k)
  4. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  5. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  6. H31R - HeadSpace (Big Dada)
  7. freekind. - Since Always and Forever (Butter92)
  8. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  9. Keys N Krates - IN:TENSION (MNRK/Last Gang)
  10. Killer Mike - “Run (Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley Version)” (Loma Vista)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  2. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
  3. Empress Of - “Femenine” (Major Arcana/Giant Music)
  4. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  5. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly) 
  6. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  7. Actress - LXXXVIII (Ninja Tune)
  8. 070 Shake - “Black Dress” / “Natural Habitat” (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam)
  9. Sleaford Mods - “West End Girls” (Rough Trade)
  10. Sinego - Alterego (Sinego Music)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  3. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  4. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  5. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
  6. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  7. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  8. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  9. 070 Shake - “Black Dress” / “Natural Habitat” (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam)
  10. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)

Jazz: 

  1. Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  2. André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic)
  3. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  4. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  5. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released)
  6. La Dame Blanche - Atomica (Nacional)
  7. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  8. OKAN - Okantomi (Lulaworld)
  9. Elephant Gym - World (Topshelf) 
  10. Summer-Pearl - outmysystem (Kitto)

Northwest: 

  1. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - Robed In Rareness (Sub Pop)
  3. Wimps - City Lights (Youth Riot)
  4. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)
  5. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  6. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released)
  7. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  8. Livt - I Just Want My Bitches To Fly (DAY ONE ENT.)
  9. Pure Bathing Culture - Chalice (self-released)
  10. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)

Adds: 

SPRINTS - Letter To Self (City Slang)
Various Artists - 45èmes Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes (Les Trans Musicales de Rennes) 
Maya Randle - Focus (Pack)
Muireann Bradley - I Kept These Old Blues (Tompkins Square)
Pile - Hot Air Balloon EP (Exploding In Sound)
Shad x TLO - THIS WINTER (self-released)
Various Artists - Ball of Wax Volume 69: Duos (Ball of Wax)
Arcwelder - Continue (self-released)
Nalepa - The Flowers (Airspace)