03-09-2020

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb. 28-Mar. 5   

Top 90:  

1. Caribou – Suddenly (Merge) 
2. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (4AD)  
3. Shopping – All or Nothing (FatCat)  
4. Christine and the Queens – La Vita Nuova EP (Because Music) 
5. Soccer Mommy – color theory (Loma Vista)  
6. Gorillaz – Song Machine (Parlophone)  
7. Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (Modular)  
8. Cold Beat – Mother (DFA)  
9. Moaning – Uneasy Laughter (Sub Pop)  
10. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun EP (Dead Oceans) 
11. Obongjayar – Which Way Is Forward? EP (September)  
12. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp) 
13. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop)  
14. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador) 
15. Torres – Silver Tongue (Merge) 
16. Gil Scott-Heron – We're New Again (A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven) (XL)  
17. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (feat. Blood Orange) (Modular) 
18. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)  
19. Habibi – Anywhere But Here (muddguts)  
20. Caroline Rose – Superstar (New West)  
21. Real Estate – The Main Thing (Domino)  
22. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador)  
23. Moses Sumney - græ (Jagjaguwar)  
24. Algiers – There Is No Year (Matador)  
25. Sharon Van Etten – Beaten Down (Jagjaguwar)  
26. Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (Concord)  
27. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released)  
28. Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling (ATO)  
29. Holy Fuck – Deleter (self-released)  
30. Destroyer – Have We Met (Merge) 
31. Georgia – Seeking Thrills (Domino) 
32. Frances Quinlan – Likewise (Saddle Creek) 
33. Wajatta – Don't Let Get You Down (Brainfeeder)  
34. Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (mmm...) 
35. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic)  
36. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (Text)  
37. Nation of Language – Rush & Fever (self-released)  
38. Hotels – Queens (West African Peanut Soup) (self-released)  
39. Damien Jurado – What's New, Tomboy? (Mama Bird)  
40. Poliça - When We Stay Alive (Memphis Industries)  
41. (Various) - The Turning soundtrack (KRO/Sony Music) 
42. Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist) 
43. Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (Mom+Pop) 
44. Ratboys – Printer's Devil (Topshelf)  
45. Deserta – Black Aura My Sun (Felte) 
46. Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman (37d03d) 
47. Yppah – Sunset in the Deep End (Future Archives)  
48. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia (New West) 
49. Glass Animals – Your Love (Déjà vu) (Wolf Tone/Universal) 
50. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers) 
51. Jay Som – A Thousand Words/Can’t Sleep (Polyvinyl)  
52. Durand Jones & The Indications – Young Americans (Dead Oceans) 
53. Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good (Brownswood) 
54. Beach Bunny – Honeymoon (Mom+Pop) 
55. Parisalexa – Chocolate (self-released) 
56. Tres Leches – Nieve (self-released) 
57. Caitlin Sherman – Death to the Damsel (Nine Mile) 
58. Chastity Belt – The Process (Hardly Art)  
59. Wolf Parade – Thin Mind (Sub Pop) 
60. Stormzy – Heavy Is The Head (Atlantic) 
61. Phoebe Bridgers – Garden Song (Dead Oceans) 
62. Cable Ties – Far Enough (Merge) 
63. The Strokes – The New Abnormal (Cult) 
64. Chromatics – Toy (Italians Do It Better) 
65. Bambara – Stray (Wharf Cat) 
66. Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar (Domino) 
67. Eyelids – The Accidental Falls (Jealous Butcher) 
68. Jungle Fire – Jungle Fire (Nacional) 
69. Wild Nothing – Laughing Gas EP (Captured Tracks) 
70. Burna Boy – Odogwu (Atlantic) 
71. Jessy Lanza – Lick in Heaven (Hyperdub) 
72. Aminé - Shimmy (Republic)  
73. Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us (Ninja Tune) 
74. King Krule – Man Alive! (Matador) 
75. Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked (Loma Vista) 
76. Art d’Ecco - I’ll Never Give You Up (Paper Bag) 
77. 070 Shake – Modus Vivendi (G.O.O.D./Def Jam) 
78. Rosalía - Juro Que (Columbia) 
79. U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD) 
80. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars in Space (Sub Pop) 
81. Antibalas – Fu Chronicles (Daptone) 
82. Greg Dulli – Random Desire (Royal Cream/BMG) 
83. Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline (ANTI-) 
84. Mura Masa – R.Y.C. (Polydor/Anchor Point) 
85. Against All Logic – 2017-2019 (Other People) 
86. Afrosideral – El Olimpo de los Orishas (Wonderwheel Recordings) 
87. Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques (Matador) 
88. Acid Arab – Jdid (Crammed Discs) 
89. Head Hurt – EP (self-released)  
90. Disq – Collector (Saddle Creek) 

Americana: 

1. Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling (ATO)  
2. Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman (37d03d)  
3. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia (New West) 
4. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)  
5. Caitlin Sherman – Death to the Damsel (Nine Mile)  
6. Futurebirds – Teamwork (VL/4L)  
7. Chuck Prophet – Get Off The Stage (Yep Roc) 
8. John Moreland – LP5 (Old Omens/Thirty Tigers)  
9. Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band – Just Like Moby Dick (Paradise of Bachelors)  
10. Kassi Valazza – Dear Dead Days (self-released) 

World Music: 

1. Obongjayar – Which Way Is Forward? EP (September)  
2. Jungle Fire – Jungle Fire (Nacional)  
3. Burna Boy – Odogwu (Atlantic) - 3 (single)  
4. Rosalía - Juro Que (Columbia)  
5. Antibalas – Fu Chronicles (Daptone)  
6. Afrosideral – El Olimpo de los Orishas (Wonderwheel Recordings)  
7. Acid Arab – Jdid (Crammed Discs)  
8. Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways) 
9. ChocQuibTown – Fresa (Sony Latin)  
10. Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou - Anou Malane (Sahel Sounds) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
2. Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good (Brownswood) 
3. Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked (Loma Vista)  
4. Stormzy – Heavy Is The Head (Atlantic)  
5. Aminé - Shimmy (Republic) - 3 (single)  
6. J.Period & Black Thought – Rage Is Back (Freestyle) (Truelements)  
7. Nigel – Tantrum (Ted)  
8. Julie-C – Sovereign Queendom Archives, Vol. 1 (self-released)  
9. EARTHGANG – Mirrorland (Dreamville/Interscope) 
10. Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal – Back At The House (Ruby Yacht)     

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Caribou – Home (Merge)  
2. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (4AD)  
3. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp)  
4. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (feat. Blood Orange) (Modular)  
5. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)  
6. Holy Fuck – Deleter (self-released)  
7. Georgia – Seeking Thrills (Domino)  
8. Wajatta – Don't Let Get You Down (Brainfeeder)  
9. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (Text) 
10. Yppah – Sunset in the Deep End (Future Archives) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun EP (Dead Oceans)  
2. Gil Scott-Heron – We're New Again (A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven) (XL)  
3. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)   
4. The Weeknd – After Hours (XO/Republic) 
5. Durand Jones & The Indications – Young Americans (Dead Oceans)  
6. Parisalexa – Chocolate (self-released)  
7. 070 Shake – Modus Vivendi (G.O.O.D./Def Jam)  
8. Kaytranada – Bubba (RCA)  
9. Free Nationals – Free Nationals (OBE/Empire)  
10. Son Little – aloha (ANTI-)  

Northwest: 

1. Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) 
2. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (Matador) 
3. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador)  
4. Tomo Nakayama – Melonday (self-released) 
5. Hotels – Queens (West African Peanut Soup) (self-released)  
6. Damien Jurado – What's New, Tomboy? (Mama Bird)  
7. Parisalexa – Chocolate (self-released) 
8. Tres Leches – Nieve (self-released)  
9. Caitlin Sherman – Death to the Damsel (Nine Mile) 
10. Chastity Belt – The Process (Hardly Art) 

Adds: 

U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD) 
Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise) 
Cornershop – England is a Garden (Ample Play) 
Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques (Matador)  
Disq – Collector (Saddle Creek)  
Snarls – Burst (Take This To Heart) 
Danny Barnes – Man On Fire (ATO)  
Worriers – You or Someone You Know (6131)  
Brownout – Berlin Sessions (Fat Beats) 
Jonathan Wilson – Dixie Blur (BMG)  
dumama + kechou – buffering juju (Mushroom Hour Half Hour) 
Honey Harper – Starmaker (ATO)  
Slift – Ummon (Vicious Circle)  
Acid Tongue – Bullies (Freakout) 
Phantogram- Ceremony (Republic)  
THICK – 5 Years Behind (Epitaph)  
Sam Doores – Sam Doores (New West) 
lié - You Want It Real (Mint)  
Anna Calvi – Hunted (Domino) 
(Various) - Penrose Records Vol. 1 (Penrose) 
Hollis – Half-Life EP (self-released) 
(Various) - Ball of Wax Volume 59: Winter 2020 (Ball of Wax)