01-29-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Jan 12 - Jan 18   

Add Date: Jan. 29    

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. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  2. SPRINTS - Letter to Self (City Slang)
  3. Melenas - Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
  4. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/NIght TIme Stories Ltd.)
  5. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  6. The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  7. STRFKR - Parallel Realms (Polyvinyl)
  8. Boeckner - Boeckner (Sub Pop)
  9. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  10. Black Pumas Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  11. Sampha - Lahai (Young)
  12. Ty Segall - Three Bells (Drag City)
  13. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  14. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone (self-released)
  15. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge) 
  16. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  17. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly) 
  18. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  19. MGMT - Loss of Life (Mom+Pop)
  20. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  21. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  22. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  23. DJ Shadow - Action Adventure (Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber)
  24. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  25. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  26. Gustaf - Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)
  27. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  28. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  29. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  30. Rapsody & Hit-Boy - “Asteroids” (Jamla)
  31. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (Third Man)
  32. Jamila Woods - Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)
  33. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  34. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  35. Malummí - The Universe is Black (Irascible)
  36. Pure Bathing Culture - Chalice (self-released)
  37. HEALTH - RAT WARS (Loma Vista Recordings)
  38. Les Mamans du Congo & RROBIN - Ya Mizolé (Jarring Effects)
  39. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  40. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant Music)
  41. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  42. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  43. Suki Waterhouse - “OMG” (Sub Pop)
  44. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  45. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future (4AD)
  46. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  47. Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  48. TATYANA - It’s Over (Sinderlyn)
  49. Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore (4AD)
  50. Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again (Gracie Music/AWAL)
  51. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  52. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh (Chrysalis)
  53. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  54. Wishy - Paradise EP (Winspear)
  55. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  56. Katie McBride - THE ANGELS ARE CALLING (Blue Water)
  57. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Fronzoli (What Reality?
  58. Crystal Murray - “PAYBACK” (Because)
  59. Kim Gordon - The Collective (Matador)
  60. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  61. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  62. Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine (Deluxe( (Transgressive)
  63. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  64. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  65. Four Tet - “Loved” (Text Records)
  66. Helado Negro - Phasor (4AD)
  67. Jamie xx - “It’s So Good” (Young)
  68. Mama Zu - Quilt Floor (Cosmic Twin/Thirty Tigers)
  69. Omni - Souvenir (Sub Pop)
  70. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  71. SHYGUY - “I’m So Trash” / “Long Time” (Tru Thoughts)
  72. Sinkane - We Belong (City Slang)
  73. A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down To This (Mute)
  74. Night Tapes - “drifting” (Nettwerk)
  75. La Dame Blanche - Atomica (Nacional)
  76. BJ The Chicago Kid - Gravy (RCA)
  77. Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  78. Beirut - Hadsel (Pompeii) 
  79. Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)
  80. DRAMA - Till We Die EP (self-released) 
  81. inuha - 陽のかけら / Hi No Kakera EP (Siren for Charlotte)
  82. PACKS - Melt The Honey (Fire Talk)
  83. TAMTAM - Ramble in the Rainbow (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
  84. Nailah Hunter - Lovegaze (Fat Possum)
  85. Sunsick Daisy - Breathe In… Breathe Out EP (self-released)
  86. Various Artists - Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  87. André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic)
  88. Strangelily - A Strange Film, Featuring You and I (self-released)
  89. Don Leisure & Amanda Whiting - Beyond the Midnight Sun (First Word)
  90. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (section1)

Americana: 

  1. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  2. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future (4AD)
  3. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  4. Mama Zu - Quilt Floor (Cosmic Twin/Thirty Tigers)
  5. Beirut - Hadsel (Pompeii) 
  6. Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)
  7. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  8. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  9. Sam Evian  - Plunge (Flying Cloud Recordings/Thirty Tigers)
  10. Tyler Ramsey - New Lost Ages (Soundly Music)

Global: 

  1. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  2. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  3. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  4. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  5. Les Mamans du Congo & RROBIN - Ya Mizolé (Jarring Effects)
  6. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant Music)
  7. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  8. La Dame Blanche - Atomica (Nacional)
  9. Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  10. Sababa 5 - Aspan (Batov)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  2. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  3. Rapsody & Hit-Boy - “Asteroids” (Jamla)
  4. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  5. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  6. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  7. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  8. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  9. Don Leisure & Amanda Whiting - Beyond the Midnight Sun (First Word)
  10. Shabazz Palaces - Robed In Rareness (Sub Pop)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  2. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  3. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  4. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly) 
  5. DJ Shadow - Action Adventure (Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber)
  6. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  7. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  8. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  9. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant Music)
  10. TATYANA - It’s Over (Sinderlyn)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  2. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  3. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  4. Sampha - Lahai (Young)
  5. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  6. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  7. Rapsody & Hit-Boy - “Asteroids” (Jamla)
  8. Jamila Woods - Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)
  9. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  10. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)

Jazz: 

  1. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  2. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  3. Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
  4. La Dame Blanche - Atomica (Nacional)
  5. Various Artists - Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  6. André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic)
  7. Don Leisure & Amanda Whiting - Beyond the Midnight Sun (First Word)
  8. Butcher Brown - "Down With The King" (Concord Jazz)
  9. Keyon Harrold - Foreverland (Concord Jazz) 
  10. freekind. - Since Always and Forever (Butter92)

Northwest: 

  1. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  2. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  3. STRFKR - Parallel Realms (Polyvinyl)
  4. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  5. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  6. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  7. Pure Bathing Culture - Chalice (self-released)
  8. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  9. Strangelily - A Strange Film, Featuring You and I (self-released)
  10. Telehealth - “Mindtrap” / “Bitter Melody” (Sub Pop)

Adds: 

Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore (4AD)
TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge) 
Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free (Rough Trade)
Katy Kirby - Blue Raspberry (ANTI-)
The Smile - Wall of Eyes (XL)
Ty Segall - Three Bells (Drag City)
Chemtrails - The Joy of Sects (PNKSLM)
​​CZARFACE - CZARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Silver Age/Virgin)
EKKSTACY - EKKSTACY (UnitedMasters)
​​Josiah Soren - Samurai (self-released)
The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
TR/ST - TR/ST (Dais)
Various Artists - Big Crown Records presents Crown Jewels Vol. 3 (Big Crown)
ammar - WHAT’S BEHIND BLUE SKIES? (DISENGAGE)
Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt (Escho)
Courting - New Last Name (Lower Third)
Goth Babe - LOLA (Mom + Pop)
Jeymes Samuel - THE BOOK OF CLARENCE (The Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Roc Nation)
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Sun (Loma Vista Recordings)
They Hate Change - Wish You Were Here… (Jagjaguwar)