05-20-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 10 - May 16

Add Date: May 20

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. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  2. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  3. Hana Vu - Romanticism (Ghostly International)
  4. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  5. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Virgin)
  6. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  7. Gustaf - Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)
  8. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
  9. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories Ltd.)
  10. Brimheim - RATKING (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  11. Shannon & The Clams - The Moon Is in the Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  12. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  13. La Luz - News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  14. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas (Island)
  15. The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  16. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  17. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  18. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  19. Blue Lab Beats - Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure)
  20. Hinds - VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  21. Kendrick Lamar - “Not Like Us” (Interscope)
  22. Gabriel Teodros - “Fire Season, Pt. 2” (self-released)
  23. Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn EP (Secretly Canadian)
  24. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  25. Francis of Delirium - Lighthouse (Dalliance Recordings)
  26. Thunderpussy - West (Trash Casual)
  27. Liv Rion - WRLD CRY (Desert Oasis)
  28. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Strut)
  29. RUB - RUB (self-released)
  30. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  31. Céu  - Novela (Urban Jungle/ONErpm)
  32. Broadcast - Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
  33. GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times (p(doom) Records)
  34. SPRINTS - Black Box Sessions (City Slang)
  35. GIFT - “Wish Me Away” (Captured Tracks)
  36. Pedro The Lion - Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
  37. Washed Out - Notes From a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
  38. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  39. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  40. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  41. Yaya Bey - Ten Fold (Big Dada)
  42. Les Savy Fav - OUI, LSF (Frenchkiss Records)
  43. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  44. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice (Matador)
  45. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  46. Another Taste - Another Taste (Space Grapes)
  47. Cloud Nothings - Final Summer (Pure Noise)
  48. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute/XL Recordings)
  49. Menomena - The Insulation EP (self-released)
  50. Project Gemini - Colours & Light (Mr Bongo)
  51. LAIR - Ngélar (Guruguru Brain)
  52. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  53. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  54. Jamie xx - “Baddy on the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon)” (Young)
  55. Suki Waterhouse - “My Fun” (Sub Pop)
  56. The Marías - Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  57. Amadou & Mariam - “Mogolu” (Because Music)
  58. Cults - “Crybaby” (Cults Music / Imperial Distribution)
  59. Jools - “97%” (Hassle Records)
  60. Machinedrum - 3FOR82 (Ninja Tune)
  61. Nada Surf - Moon Mirror (New West)
  62. Quivers - Oyster Cuts (Merge)
  63. The Bug Club - “Quality Pints” (Sub Pop)
  64. Crumb - AMAMA (self-released)
  65. Earthtones - We Can Live Together (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  66. Meridian Brothers - Mi Latinoamérica Sufre (Ansonia Records)
  67. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  68. Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  69. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  70. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  71. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  72. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  73. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  74. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  75. Slum Village - F.U.N. (Ne’Astra Music / Virgin Music Group)
  76. Charlotte Day Wilson - Cyan Blue (Stone Woman Music/XL Recordings)
  77. Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow (Royal Mountain)
  78. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (self-released)
  79. girl in red - I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! (Columbia)
  80. METZ - Up On Gravity Hill (Sub Pop)
  81. bad tuner - look at me but through me EP (Foreign Family Collective)
  82. Bnny - One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk)
  83. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  84. Cléa Vincent  - Ad vitam æternamour (Midnight Special)
  85. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  86. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  87. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone (Independent/The Orchard)
  88. A. G. Cook - Britpop (New Alias)
  89. Lunchbox - Pop and Circumstance (Slumberland)
  90. Pokey LaFarge - Rhumba Country (New West)

Americana: 

  1. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  2. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  3. Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  4. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  6. Pokey LaFarge - Rhumba Country (New West)
  7. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  8. Various Artists - My Black Country; THe Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy Records)
  9. Alejandro Escovedo - Echo Dancing (Yep Roc)
  10. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  3. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  4. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Strut)
  5. Céu  - Novela (Urban Jungle/ONErpm)
  6. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice (Matador)
  7. LAIR - Ngélar (Guruguru Brain)
  8. Amadou & Mariam - “Mogolu” (Because Music)
  9. Earthtones - We Can Live Together (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  10. Meridian Brothers - Mi Latinoamérica Sufre (Ansonia Records)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Blue Lab Beats - Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure)
  2. Kendrick Lamar - “Not Like Us” (Interscope)
  3. Gabriel Teodros - “Fire Season, Pt. 2” (self-released)
  4. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Strut)
  5. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  6. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  7. Yaya Bey - Ten Fold (Big Dada)
  8. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  9. Earthtones - We Can Live Together (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  10. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Blue Lab Beats - Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure)
  3. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  4. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  5. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  6. Jamie xx - “Baddy on the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon)” (Young)
  7. Machinedrum - 3FOR82 (Ninja Tune)
  8. Earthtones - We Can Live Together (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  9. bad tuner - look at me but through me EP (Foreign Family Collective)
  10. A. G. Cook - Britpop (New Alias)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  3. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  4. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  5. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  6. Blue Lab Beats - Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure)
  7. Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn EP (Secretly Canadian)
  8. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  9. Liv Rion - WRLD CRY (Desert Oasis)
  10. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)

Jazz: 

  1. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  2. Blue Lab Beats - Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure)
  3. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Strut)
  4. Céu  - Novela (Urban Jungle/ONErpm)
  5. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  6. Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
  7. Karate Boogaloo - Hold Your Horses (Colemine)
  8. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  9. Amaro Freitas - Y’Y (Psychic Hotline)
  10. Sly5thAve - Liberation (Tru Thoughts)

Northwest: 

  1. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  2. La Luz - News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  3. Gabriel Teodros - “Fire Season, Pt. 2” (self-released)
  4. Thunderpussy - West (Trash Casual)
  5. Liv Rion - WRLD CRY (Desert Oasis)
  6. RUB - RUB (self-released)
  7. Shabazz Palaces - Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  8. Pedro The Lion - Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
  9. Menomena - The Insulation EP (self-released)
  10. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)

Adds: 

​​Axolotes Mexicanos - 4ever (Elefant)
Crumb - AMAMA (self-released)
MRCY - VOLUME 1 (Dead Oceans)
Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame (Strut)
SYBS - Olew Nadroedd (Libertino)
Thunderpussy - West (Trash Casual)
Yaya Bey - Ten Fold (Big Dada)
A. G. Cook - Britpop (New Alias)
Arab Strap - I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍(Rock Action)
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown (Domino)
Lightheaded - Combustible Gems (Slumberland)
Lip Critic - Hex Dealer (Partisan)
musclecars - Sugar Honey Iced Tea! (BBE Music)
Rasco - Dmaot (Batov)
RUB - RUB (self-released)
Warren Dunes - Aquamarine (Jenny Invert Records)
Alex Henry Foster - Kimiyo (Hopeful Tragedy)
Amy O - Mirror, Reflect (Winspear)
Blockhead - Luminous Rubble (Def Pressé Editions)
Bryony Jarman-Pinto - Below Dawn (Tru Thoughts)
How To Dress Well - I Am Toward You (Sargent House)
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (International Anthem)
Kiefer - Something For Real (Stones Throw)
LA Priest - LA Fusion (Domino)
Meklit - Ethio Blue EP (self-released)
Silver Skylarks - The Number One Set and Sound (Skylark Soul Co./Eastwood Music Group)