09-23-2024

KEXP Charts for the Week of Sept 13 - Sept 19

Add Date: Sept. 23

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. Suki Waterhouse - Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
  2. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
  3. Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
  4. Sea Lemon - “Crystals” (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) (Luminelle)
  5. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  7. Hinds - VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
  8. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  9. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  10. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  11. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight B741 ((P)Doom)
  12. The Mystery Lights - Purgatory (Wick/Daptone)
  13. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes (Geffen Records)
  14. Deep Sea Diver - “Stockholm Syndrome” (Three Siren)
  15. Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
  16. Been Stellar - Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  17. Fred again.. - ten days (Warner Music/Atlantic)
  18. LL COOL J - THE FORCE (LL COOL J)
  19. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  20. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  21. Jungle - “Let’s Go Back” (Caiola Records/AWAL Recordings)
  22. Jack White - No Name (Third Man Records)
  23. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  24. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  25. Dummy - Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
  26. Wishy - Triple Seven (Winspear)
  27. Trentemøller - Dreamweaver (In My Room)
  28. Doohickey Cubicle - Super Smeller (self-released)
  29. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  30. Blondshell - “What’s Fair” (Partisan)
  31. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  32. Goat - Goat (Rocket Recordings)
  33. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  34. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  35. Say She She - “I Believe in Miracles” (Karma Chief)
  36. Toro y Moi - Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)
  37. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
  38. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  39. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  40. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  41. The Heavy Heavy - One of a Kind (ATO)
  42. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  43. Chime School - The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel (Slumberland)
  44. GIFT - Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
  45. Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life/AWAL)
  46. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  47. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  48. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop)
  49. Various Artists - Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia (Ostinato)
  50. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  51. Deep Sea Diver - “Billboard Heart” (Sub Pop)
  52. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness (Amyl and The Sniffers/Virgin Music)
  53. Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear (Domino)
  54. Friedberg - Hardcore Workout Queen (Clouds Hill)
  55. Jorja Smith - “High” (FAMM)
  56. Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (Secretly Canadian)
  57. The Linda Lindas - No Obligation (Epitaph)
  58. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  59. Crows - Reason Enough (Bad Vibrations)
  60. Fazerdaze - Soft Power (section1)
  61. Leon Bridges - Leon (Columbia Records)
  62. Naima Bock - Below A Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop)
  63. Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me (City Slang)
  64. Gardens & Villa - Ultra Terrestrial (self-released)
  65. Kit Sebastian - New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
  66. Men I Trust - “Husk” (self-released)
  67. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  68. GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times (p(doom) records)
  69. Clairo - Charm (Virgin)
  70. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas (Island)
  71. Thavoron - Thavoron (Trailing Twelve)
  72. OHR - Afterglow (Head State)
  73. Nada Surf - Moon Mirror (New West)
  74. Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
  75. Oceanator - Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
  76. The Bug Club - On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
  77. illuminati hotties - POWER (Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless Records)
  78. The Belair Lip Bombs - Lush Life (Third Man Records)
  79. Moses Sumney - Sophcore EP (TUNTUM)
  80. Orville Peck - Stampede (Warner)
  81. Joyce - Voyce (Human Worth)
  82. Dear Rouge - Lonesome High (Cadence/Pheromone Records)
  83. Etran de L’Aïr - 100% Sahara Guitar (Sahel Sounds)
  84. Tristan de Liège - Searching (Joshua Tree)
  85. The The - Ensoulment (Cineola Limited/earMUSIC)
  86. Tall Juan - Raccoon Nights
  87. Angela Muñoz - Descanso (Stones Throw)
  88. Snakehips & EARTHGANG - SNAKEGANG EP, Vol. 1 (Never Worry)
  89. Star Anna - Love and Sex and Fear of Death (self-released)
  90. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)

Americana: 

  1. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (ANTI-)
  2. Orville Peck - Stampede (Warner)
  3. Star Anna - Love and Sex and Fear of Death (self-released)
  4. Haley Heynderickx  - Seed Of A Seed (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
  5. Adrianne Lenker - “Once A Bunch” (4AD)
  6. Why Bonnie - Wish on the Bone (Fire Talk)
  7. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland (Acony)
  8. Abbey Blackwell - Big Big Motion (self-released)
  9. Cassandra Lewis - Lost In A Dream (Elektra/Low Country Sound)
  10. Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold Records)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  2. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  3. BALTHVS - Harvest (Mixto)
  4. Los Bitchos - Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
  5. Various Artists - Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia (Ostinato)
  6. Kit Sebastian - New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
  7. Etran de L’Aïr - 100% Sahara Guitar (Sahel Sounds)
  8. Terror/Cactus - Forastero (Shika Shika)
  9. Flying Mojito Bros - “Glitter” (Ubiquity)
  10. Claude Fontaine - La Mer (Innovative Leisure)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. LL COOL J - THE FORCE (LL COOL J)
  2. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  3. Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista)
  4. Snakehips & EARTHGANG - SNAKEGANG EP, Vol. 1 (Never Worry)
  5. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  6. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)
  7. Lyrics Born - Goodbye, Sticky Rice (self-released)
  8. PawPaw Rod - Doobie Mouth (GODMODE)
  9. Killer Mike - Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners And Saints (Loma Vista Recordings/Concord)
  10. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  3. Fcukers - Baggy$$ EP (Technicolour)
  4. Fred again.. - ten days (Warner Music/Atlantic)
  5. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (dh2)
  6. Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
  7. OHR - Afterglow (Head State)
  8. Tristan de Liège - Searching (Joshua Tree)
  9. Snakehips & EARTHGANG - SNAKEGANG EP, Vol. 1 (Never Worry)
  10. KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS (RCA)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP (Merge)
  2. Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  3. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes (Geffen Records)
  4. Jungle - “Let’s Go Back” (Caiola Records/AWAL Recordings)
  5. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  6. Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
  7. Say She She - “I Believe in Miracles” (Karma Chief)
  8. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World (RCA)
  9. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  10. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)

Jazz: 

  1. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  2. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  3. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
  4. Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  5. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  6. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  7. Tristan de Liège - Searching (Joshua Tree)
  8. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  9. Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding - Milton + esperanza (Concord)
  10. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jazz Is Dead 021 (Jazz Is Dead)

Northwest: 

  1. Sea Lemon - “Crystals” (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) (Luminelle)
  2. Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme (self-released)
  3. Deep Sea Diver - “Stockholm Syndrome” (Three Siren)
  4. Black Ends - Psychotic Spew (Youth Riot)
  5. Doohickey Cubicle - Super Smeller (self-released)
  6. Afrocop - Afrocop (Wax Thematique)
  7. Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi)
  8. Deep Sea Diver - “Billboard Heart” (Sub Pop)
  9. True Loves - “Good Weed & Red Wine” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)
  10. Thavoron - Thavoron (Trailing Twelve)

Adds: 

​​Jamie xx - In Waves (Young)
Nubya Garcia - Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
Cassie Ramone - Sweetheart (CD-R)
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol)
Fastbacks - For WHAT Reason! (No Threes)
Honeyglaze - Real Deal (Fat Possum)
Leyya - Half Asleep (Minor Changes)
Pearl & The Oysters - Planet Pearl (Stones Throw)
Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode (Pronounced Kroog)
Tasha - All This and So Much More (Bayonet)
TR/ST - Performance (Dais)
Dame Area - Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (Humo Internacional)
Dave Guy - Ruby (Big Crown)
Joyce - Voyce (Human Worth)
julie - my anti-aircraft (Atlantic)
Lutalo - The Academy (Winspear)
Marcos Valle - Túnel Acústico (Far Out Recordings)
Sophia Stel - Object Permanence EP (Pack Records)
Tanukichan - Circles EP (Carpark)
THE WAEVE - City Lights (Transgressive)
Bathe - Inside Voices (Side A) (MNRK)
Cursive - Devourer (Run For Cover)
K.O.G. - Don’t Take My Soul (Pura Vida Sounds/Heavenly Sweetness)
LSDXOXO - DOGMA (Because Music)
Miles Nautu - Allude EP (Blak Label)
Snoozer - Mid-Earth (Born Loser)
Terror Cactus - Forastero (Shika Shika)
Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library Series)