02-26-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb 16 - Feb 22    

Add Date: Feb 26    

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. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  2. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  3. Lime Garden - One More Thing (So Young)
  4. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  5. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  6. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  7. Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way (Carpark)
  8. Black Pumas Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  9. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  10. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  11. SPRINTS - Letter to Self (City Slang)
  12. Helado Negro - Phasor (4AD)
  13. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  14. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas (Island)
  15. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  16. Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore (4AD)
  17. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  18. Melenas - Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
  19. Omni - Souvenir (Sub Pop)
  20. Beyoncé - ACT II (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  21. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition (Perpetual Novice/The Orchard)
  22. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  23. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  24. Wonder 45 - “Make It Happen” (Big AC)
  25. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  26. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge)
  27. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  28. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  29. Nouvelle Vague - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (PIAS)
  30. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  31. girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! (Columbia)
  32. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  33. Justice - Hyperdrama (Ed Banger Records/Because)
  34. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/NIght TIme Stories Ltd.)
  35. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  36. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone (self-released)
  37. Suki Waterhouse - “OMG” (Sub Pop)
  38. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us (Columbia Records)
  39. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  40. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  41. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  42. Elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO (Polydor/Geffen)
  43. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  44. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  45. Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again (Gracie Music/AWAL)
  46. MGMT - Loss of Life (Mom+Pop)
  47. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  48. shygirl - Club Shy EP (Because)
  49. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  50. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  51. TV Star & Spiral XP - TVXP EP (self-released)
  52. Yussef Dayes - Live From Malibu (Brownswood Recordings)
  53. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  54. The Decemberists - Burial Ground (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  55. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown (Domino)
  56. Boeckner - Boeckner (Sub Pop)
  57. Jamie xx - “It’s So Good” (Young)
  58. METZ  - Up On Gravity Hill (Sub Pop)
  59. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  60. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly)
  61. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  62. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  63. levitation room - Strange Weather (Greenway/The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  64. Lewis OfMan - Cristal Medium Blue (Virgin Records France/Profil de Face)
  65. Katie McBride - THE ANGELS ARE CALLING (Blue Water)
  66. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh (Chrysalis)
  67. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police (R&R Digital)
  68. TR/ST - TR/ST (Dais)
  69. Loving - Any Light (Last Gang/MNRK)
  70. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  71. Sampha - Lahai (Young)
  72. Jamila Woods - Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)
  73. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  74. The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  75. Fat Dog - “All The Same” (Domino)
  76. Various Artists - My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy/Thirty Tigers)
  77. LEATHERS - “Crash” (Artoffact Records)
  78. RUB - RUB (self-released)
  79. Warpaint - “Common Blue” (Rough Trade Records)
  80. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (Third Man)
  81. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord (KGLW)
  82. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (PIAS)\
  83. Jordan Mackampa - WELCOME HOME, KID (AWAL)
  84. Royel Otis - PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness)
  85. Dina ögon - Orion (Playground Music Scandinavia)
  86. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  87. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  88. Black Nite Crash - Signal To Noise (Neon Sigh)
  89. Devon Ross - Oxford Gardens EP (Daydream Library)
  90. Grandaddy - Blu Wav (Dangerbird)

Americana: 

  1. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  2. Beyoncé - ACT II Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  3. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  4. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  5. The Decemberists - “Burial Ground” (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  6. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  7. Various Artists - My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy/Thirty Tigers)
  8. Grandaddy - Blu Wav (Dangerbird)
  9. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  10. Muireann Bradley - Kept These Old Blues (Tompkins Square)

Global: 

  1. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  2. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  3. Helado Negro - Phasor (4AD)
  4. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  5. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  7. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  8. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  9. La Dame Blanche - Atomica (Nacional)
  10. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Les Grandes Vacances (Bonus Version) (Jakarta)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  2. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  3. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  4. Seven Davis Jr. - Stranger Than Fiction (Secret Angels)
  5. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  6. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  7. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  8. DāM‐FunK - Out the Way EP (Glydezone Recordings)
  9. Yussef Dayes - Live From Malibu (Brownswood Recordings)
  10. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)
  2. Little Simz - Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals)
  3. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  4. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  5. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  6. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  7. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  8. Justice - Hyperdrama (Ed Banger Records/Because)
  9. serpentwithfeet - GRIP (Secretly Canadian)
  10. shygirl - Club Shy EP (Because)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  2. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  3. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  4. Beyoncé - ACT II (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  5. KAYTRANADA & Rochelle Jordan - Lover/Friend EP (RCA)
  6. Wonder 45 - “Make It Happen” (Big AC)
  7. Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
  8. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Geffen)
  9. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  10. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)

Jazz: 

  1. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  2. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  3. DJ Harrison - Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  4. Yussef Dayes - Live From Malibu (Brownswood Recordings)
  5. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  6. freekind. - Since Always and Forever (Butter92)
  7. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Les Grandes Vacances (Bonus Version) (Jakarta)
  8. Hiatus Kaiyote - “Everything’s Beautiful” (Brainfeeder)
  9. Keyon Harrold - Foreverland (Concord Jazz)
  10. Nubya Garcia - “Fortify” (Concord Jazz)

Northwest: 

  1. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  3. Chong the Nomad - “Shake Step” (self-released)
  4. Day Soul Exquisite - Sanguine & Cardamom (La fem/Den Tapes)
  5. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  6. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  7. TV Star & Spiral XP - TVXP EP (self-released)
  8. The Decemberists - Burial Ground (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  9. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  10. LEATHERS - “Crash” (Artoffact Records)

Adds: 

Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
Erika de Casier - Still (4AD)
Laetitia Sadier - Rooting for Love (Drag City)
MGMT - Loss of Life (Mom+Pop)
Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
Aili - Nandakke? (Eskimo Recordings)
Daymé Arocena - Alkemi (Brownswood Recordings)
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
​​LAIR - Ngélar (Guruguru Brain)
Whitelands - Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day (Sonic Cathedral)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Tape EP (BRMC Records)
Chromeo - Adult Contemporary (BMG)
Church Chords - elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
Colouring - Love To You, Mate (Bella Union)
Friko - Where we've been, Where we go from here (ATO)
Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)
John Glacier - Like a Ribbon EP (Young)
Liam Bailey - Zero Grace (Big Crown)
London Afrobeat Collective - Esengo (Canopy Records)
Mama Zu - Quilt Floor (Cosmic Twin/Thirty Tigers)
Mary Timony - Untame the Tiger (Merge)
Ale San - Martian Levitation (self-released)
Danielle Durack - Escape Artist (self-released)
Elephant Stone - Back Into The Dream (Elephants on Parade)
Josephine - Leaning EP (self-released)
Large Brush Collection - Off Center (Companion Plant)
Maud - The Love That Remains (self-released)
Modern English - 1 2 3 4 (Mesh & Lace Recordings)
Myaap - BIG MYAAP, NOT THE LIL ONE EP (self-released)