01-09-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Dec. 30-Jan. 5

Add Date: Jan. 9 

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. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
2. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
3. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
4. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)  
5. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
6. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
7. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic)  
8. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)  
9. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) 
10. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
11. Yves Tumor – God is a Circle (Warp)  
12. Shame – Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)  
13. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
14. Goat – Oh Death (Rocket Recordings) 
15. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
16. Hatchie – Nosedive (Secretly Canadian)  
17. ENOLA – Metal Body (Fire Talk)  
18. Contour – Onwards! (Touching Bass)  
19. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
20. Baby Rose – Go (Secretly Canadian)  
21. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group) 
22. Nia Archives – So Tell Me... (Island/HIJINXX)  
23. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
24. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
25. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
26. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
27. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released) 
28. Bonobo – Defender (OUTLIER)  
29. Altin Gün - Leylim Ley (ATO)  
30. Spoon – Lucifer on the Moon (Matador)  
31. Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph)  
32. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
33. Phoenix – Alpha Zulu (Glassnote)  
34. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
35. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)  
36. Gladie – Don't Know What You’re In Until You’re Out (Plum)  
37. Archers of Loaf – Reason in Decline (Merge)  
38. Jean Dawson – CHAOS NOW* (Handwritten)  
39. Skinny Pelembe – Like a Heart Won’t Beat (Partisan)  
40. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
41. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte) 
42. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
43. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE)  
44. The Haunted Youth – Dawn of the Freak (Mayway)  
45. Run The Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners/BMG)  
46. PVA – Blush (Ninja Tune)  
47. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)  
48. Fousheé - softCORE (RCA)  
49. Chance the Rapper – YAH Know (self-released) 
50. Petite Noir – Simple Things (Roya)  
51. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
52. Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera (3eme Bureau)  
53. NxWorries – Where I Go (Stones Throw)  
54. Model Shop – Love Interest (Meritorio)  
55. Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth (Mute)  
56. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings)  
57. MorMor – Semblance (AWAL)  
58. Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9, 2022) (Atlantic) 
59. Sault – UNTITLED (God) (Forever Living Originals)  
60. Nick Hakim – Cometa (ATO)  
61. iLe – Nacarile (Sony Latin)  
62. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)  
63. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe)  
64. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)  
65. STR4TA – STR4TASFEAR (Brownswood Recordings)  
66. Gabriel Teodros – Open Letter (self-released)  
67. Caution – To Decide (Hardly Art)  
68. Genesis Owusu – Get Inspired (Ourness/AWAL)  
69. TR/ST - Razr (Skybound)  
70. Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment (Memphis Industries)  
71. The Golden Dregs – On Grace & Dignity (4AD)  
72. Adi Oasis – Adonis (Unity)  
73. Teenage Sequence – D.I.S. Connect (Everything Sucks)  
74. Emily King – This Year (ATO)  
75. Mugs and Pockets – The Adventures of Mugs and Pockets (self-released)  
76. Cumulus – Something Brighter (Share It Music)  
77. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
78. First Aid Kit – Palomino (Columbia)  
79. KIRBY – I Thought I Would EP (self-released)  
80. Ghost Funk Orchestra – A New Kind of Love (Colemine/Karma Chief)  
81. Noveliss – Vagabond EP (Clear Soul)  
82. Bad Colours – Always With U (Bastard Jazz)  
83. PinkPantheress – Take Me Home EP (Warner)  
84. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
85. (Various) - Live at KEXP Volume 10 (KEXP)  
86. Plains – I Walked With You A Ways (ANTI-)  
87. Santigold – Spirituals (Little Jerk)  
88. Gabriels – Angels & Queens: Part 1 (Atlas Artists)  
89. Say She She - Prism (Karma Chief)  
90. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA)     

Americana: 

1. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-)  
2. Caitlin Rose – CAZIMI (Pearl Tower/Missing Piece)  
3. Cory Branan – When I Go I Ghost (Blue Elan) 
4. (Various) - Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (New West)  
5. Nikki Lane – Denim & Diamonds (New West)  
6. Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum) 
7. Honey Harper – Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky (ATO) 
8. Trampled by Turtles – Alpenglow (Banjodad/Thirty Tigers)  
9. Lydia Ramsey – Like a Dream (self-released)  
10. The Delines – The Lost Duets (Jealous Butcher) 

Global: 

1. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
2. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released) 
3. Altin Gün - Leylim Ley (ATO)   
4. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte) 
5. Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera (3eme Bureau)  
6. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 
7. iLe – Nacarile (Sony Latin)  
8. Protoje – Third Time’s the Charm (In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA) 
9. Zap Mama - Odyssée (self-released)  
10. Da Cruz – Baladas da Luta (Boom Jah) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
3. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)  
4. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
5. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE)  
6. Run The Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO (Jewel Runners/BMG)  
7. Chance the Rapper – YAH Know (self-released)  
8. Gabriel Teodros – Open Letter (self-released)  
9. Noveliss – Vagabond EP (Clear Soul)  
10. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
2. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic) 
3. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
4. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
5. Nia Archives – So Tell Me... (Island/HIJINXX)  
6. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
7. Bonobo – Defender (OUTLIER)  
8. Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph) 
9. PVA – Blush (Ninja Tune)  
10. Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth (Mute) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
2. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)  
3. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
4. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine) 
5. Baby Rose – Go (Secretly Canadian) 
6. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
7. Petite Noir – Simple Things (Roya) 
8. NxWorries – Where I Go (Stones Throw) 
9. Sault – UNTITLED (God) (Forever Living Originals)  
10. Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone) 

Jazz: 

1. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
2. STR4TA – STR4TASFEAR (Brownswood Recordings)  
3. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released) 
4. Garrett Saracho, Adriam Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Garrett Saracho JID015 (Jazz Is Dead)  
5. Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings/International Anthem/Nonesuch)  
6. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
7. Dezron Douglas – Atalaya (International Anthem)  
8. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)  
9. Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)  
10. Theon Cross – Wings (New Soil)

Northwest: 

1. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
2. Model Shop – Love Interest (Meritorio)  
3. Gabriel Teodros – Open Letter (self-released)  
4. Mugs and Pockets – The Adventures of Mugs and Pockets (self-released)  
5. Cumulus – Something Brighter (Share It Music)  
6. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
7. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
8. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
9. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
10. Black Nite Crash – Washed in the Sound with... (Neon Sigh)  

Adds: 

The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL) 
Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals) 
Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
Ging - We're Here, My Dear (Ging Recordings) 
Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe) 
Bobby Sanchez – Melancholy Tgirl EP (Harawiq)  
Credit Electric - out of love in the face of a shadow (Royal Oakie) 
Arjuna Oakes & Serebii - Final Days (Innovative Leisure) 
Kornél Kovács - Hotel Koko (Studio Barnhus) 
PawPaw Rod - Another PawPaw Rod EP (Godmode) 
Royel Otis - Bar & Grill (House Anxiety)