02-27-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb. 17-23

Add Date: Feb. 27    

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. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
2. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
3. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
4. Bully – Lose You (Sub Pop) 
5. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
6. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
7. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
8. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
9. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
10. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy)  
11. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
12. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
13. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
14. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
15. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
16. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
17. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
18. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
19. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island)  
20. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Warp)  
21. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
22. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
23. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
24. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
25. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
26. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
27. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
28. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
29. Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
30. Glüme - Main Character (Italians Do It Better)  
31. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino)  
32. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
33. Bartees Strange – Tisched Off (Sub Pop)  
34. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
35. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
36. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
37. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
38. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)  
39. Wesley Joseph – GLOW (Secretly Canadian)  
40. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
41. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
42. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
43. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori (Columbia)  
44. The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic (Easy Eye Sound)  
45. Theo Croker – BY THE WAY EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
46. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
47. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)  
48. Squid – O Monolith (Warp)  
49. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO) 
50. Kae Tempest – Nice Idea (American/Republic)  
51. CIVIC – Taken By Force (ATO)  
52. Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)  
53. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
54. Shame – Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)  
55. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions)  
56. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
57. Rema – Holiday (Mavin)  
58. Tanukichan – Gizmo (Company)  
59. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
60. Hello Mary – Hello Mary (Frenchkiss)  
61. Tei Shi – QUIEN TE MANDA? (self-released)  
62. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V (Jagjaguwar)  
63. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
64. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla) 
65. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
66. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)  
67. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)  
68. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
69. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
70. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek)  
71. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
72. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  
73. Spiral XP – It's Been a While EP (Danger Collective)  
74. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man)  
75. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt)  
76. (Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note) 
77. Avey Tare – 7s (Domino)  
78. Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Run For Cover)  
79. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries)  
80. Samia – Honey (Grand Jury)  
81. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
82. Velvet Negroni – Bulli (4AD)  
83. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
84. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released)  
85. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
86. Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (Rough Trade)  
87. Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End (Saddle Creek)  
88. Mega Bog – End of Everything (Mexican Summer)  
89. Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment (Memphis Industries)  
90. Nakhane – Bastard Jargon (BMG)        

Americana: 

1. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
2. Dougie Poole – The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat)  
3. Country Westerns – Forgive the City (Fat Possum)  
4. Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)  
5. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
6. H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (Merge)  
7. Slaid Cleaves – Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media)  
8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern) 
9. Stephanie Anne Johnson – Jewels (self-released)  
10. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 

Global: 

1. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions)  
3. Rema – Holiday (Mavin)  
4. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)  
5. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
6. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
7. Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
8. Ayra Starr – Sability (Mavin)  
9. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe) 
10. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK)  

Hip Hop: 

1. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
2. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
3. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
4. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
5. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
6. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
7. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
8. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
9. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80) 
10. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE) 

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
2. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
3. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
4. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life/AWAL)  
5. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER) 
6. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island) 
7. Overmono – Good Lies (XL) 
8. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)  
9. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
10. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
2. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
3. Janelle Monae – Float (Bad Boy)  
4. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
5. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya) 
6. Wesley Joseph – GLOW (Secretly Canadian) 
7. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)  
8. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group) 
9. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
10. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)  

Jazz: 

1. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
2. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
3. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
4. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
5. (Various) - Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre (Blue Note)  
6. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan) 
7. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
8. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz) 
9. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 
10. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan) 

Northwest: 

1. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
2. Who Is She? - My My Orca Card (Father/Daughter)  
3. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
4. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
5. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
6. Spiral XP – It's Been a While EP (Danger Collective) 
7. TV Star – Hallucinate Me EP (Painter Man) 
8. Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt) 
9. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
10. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released) 

Adds: 

Algiers – Shook (Matador) 
U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD) 
Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Warner) 
Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
Shame – Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)  
Kimi Djabaté - Dindin (Cumbancha)  
Glüme - Main Character (Italians Do It Better) 
Long Dark Moon – All Your Mountains (Factory Belt) 
Runnner – Like Dying Stars, We’re Reaching Out (Run For Cover)  
Tianna Esperanza – Terror (BMG)  
Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)  
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land of Sleeper (Missing Piece) 
Miss Grit – Follow the Cyborg (Mute)  
Dougie Poole – The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat) 
Model/Actriz - Godsbody (True Panther)  
The Church – The Hypnogogue (Communicating Vessels) 
mui zyu – Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century (Father/Daughter) 
Theo Croker – BY THE WAY EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony) 
Bria – Cuntry Covers volume 2 (Sub Pop) 
Coral Grief – Daydrops EP (Den Tapes)