11-20-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Nov 10 - Nov 16  

Add Date: Nov. 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. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  2. Melenas - Ahora (Trouble In Mind)
  3. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  4. Wild Nothing - Hold (Captured Tracks)
  5. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  6. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly) 
  7. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan) 
  8. Dawn Richard - The Architect (Merge)
  9. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (PIAS) 
  10. Sampha - Lahai (4AD)
  11. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  12. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
  13. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple (PIAS)
  14. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  15. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (Third Man)
  16. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  17. Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore (4AD)
  18. Tierra Whack - “Chanel Pit” (Interscope)
  19. TORRES - What an enormous room (Merge)
  20. Brimheim - RATKING (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  21. SPRINTS - Letter To Self (City Slang)
  22. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes (XL) [M]
  23. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  24. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord (KGLW)
  25. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
  26. Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
  27. Medejin - The Garden (Icy Cold Records/Den Tapes)
  28. JJ Whitefield - Puzzled (Broc Recordz)
  29. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  30. Various Artists - Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  31. Sinkane - “Everything is Everything” (feat. Tru Osborne) (City Slang)
  32. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
  33. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  34. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  35. Wimps - City Lights (Youth Riot)
  36. Keys N Krates - IN:TENSION (MNRK/Last Gang)
  37. Mon Laferte - Autopoiética (Universal Music Mexico)
  38. HotWax - Invite Me, Kindly EP (Marathon Artist)
  39. Cherry Glazerr - I Don’t Want You Anymore (Secretly Canadian)
  40. Molly Burch - Daydreamer (Captured Tracks)
  41. CHAI - CHAI (Sub Pop)
  42. George Riley - Un/limited Love (Ninja Tune)
  43. Pure Bathing Culture - Chalice (self-released) 
  44. Pachyman - Switched-On (ATO)
  45. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)
  46. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)
  47. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing EP (Luminelle Recordings)
  48. Athlete Whippet - U Never Listen EP (Toy Tonics)
  49. Sexores - Mar del Sur (Buh Records)
  50. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (Brownswood) 
  51. Slowdive - everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
  52. Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER (Ourness/AWAL)
  53. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  54. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  55. Telehealth - “Mindtrap” / “Bitter Melody” (Sub Pop)
  56. UMI - talking to the wind EP (self-released)
  57. 070 Shake - “Black Dress” (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam)
  58. Brittany Howard - “What Now” (Island)
  59. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  60. DEBBY FRIDAY - “let u in” (Sub Pop)
  61. English Teacher - “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab” / “Nearly Daffodils” (Island)
  62. Yaeji - “easy breezy” (XL)
  63. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia (Republic)
  64. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  65. Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again (Gracie Music / AWAL)
  66. Vagabon - Sorry I Haven’t Called (Nonesuch)
  67. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
  68. Beirut - Hadsel (Pompeii) 
  69. DRAMA - Till We Die EP (self-released) 
  70. IAN SWEET - SUCKER (Polyvinyl)
  71. Benét - Can i go again? (Bayonet)
  72. Cleo Sol - Gold (Forever Living Originals)
  73. Slothrust - I Promise EP (Dangerbird)
  74. Sinego - Alterego (Sinego Music)
  75. Jenn Champion - The Last Night of Sadness (Gay Forever) 
  76. María José Llergo - ULTRABELLEZA (Sony Music Entertainment España)
  77. Bar Italia - The Twits (Matador)
  78. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  79. Swamp Wife - Swamp Wife EP (self-released)
  80. Les Mamans du Congo & RROBIN - Ya Mizolé (Jarring Effects) 
  81. Poolside - Blame It All On Love (Counter/Ninja Tune)
  82. PinkPantheress - Heaven knows (Warner) 
  83. Red Axes - One More City (fabric Originals)
  84. Seafood Sam - Afros In The Wind EP (drink sum wtr)
  85. Titanic - Vidrio (Tin Angel)
  86. Jeremy Dutcher - Motewolonuwok (Secret City) 
  87. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers)
  88. Kaidi Tatham - The Only Way (First Word)
  89. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic) 
  90. Noname - Sundial (self-released)

Americana: 

  1. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
  2. Beirut - Hadsel (Pompeii) 
  3. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers) 
  4. Big Thief - “Vampire Empire” b/w “Born For Loving You” (4AD)
  5. Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)
  6. Wilco - Cousin (dBpm)
  7. Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy) 
  8. Buck Meek - Haunted Mountain (4AD)
  9. Joni Mitchell - Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (Elektra/Asylum)
  10. Margo Price - Strays II (Loma Vista)

Global: 

  1. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  2. Mon Laferte - Autopoiética (Universal Music Mexico)
  3. Pachyman - Switched-On (ATO)
  4. Sinego - Alterego (Sinego Music)
  5. María José Llergo - ULTRABELLEZA (Sony Music Entertainment España)
  6. El Búho - Strata (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  7. Les Mamans du Congo & RROBIN - Ya Mizolé (Jarring Effects) 
  8. Burna Boy - I Told Them … (Atlantic)
  9. Angelica Garcia - “El Que” / “Y Grito” (Partisan)
  10. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Musow Danse (Real World Records)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Dawn Richard - The Architect (Merge)
  2. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  3. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  4. Tierra Whack - “Chanel Pit” (Interscope)
  5. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  6. Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
  7. Keys N Krates - IN:TENSION (MNRK/Last Gang)
  8. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)
  9. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Warp)
  10. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune)
  2. David Holmes feat. Raven Violet - Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly) 
  3. Dawn Richard - The Architect (Merge)
  4. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (PIAS) 
  5. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  6. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Republic)
  7. Various Artists - Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  8. Keys N Krates - IN:TENSION (MNRK/Last Gang)
  9. George Riley - Un/limited Love (Ninja Tune)
  10. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO)
  2. Say She She - Silver (Karma Chief/Colemine)
  3. Dawn Richard - The Architect (Merge)
  4. Sampha - Lahai (4AD)
  5. Tkay Maidza - Sweet Justice (4AD)
  6. JJ Whitefield - Puzzled (Broc Recordz)
  7. Sinkane - “Everything is Everything” (feat. Tru Osborne) (City Slang)
  8. Jorja Smith - falling or flying (FAMM)
  9. Jungle - Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
  10. UMI - talking to the wind EP (self-released)

Jazz: 

  1. Butcher Brown - Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  2. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  3. Kamaal Williams - Stings (Black Focus)
  4. JJ Whitefield - Puzzled (Broc Recordz)
  5. Various Artists - Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
  6. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (Brownswood) 
  7. Titanic - Vidrio (Tin Angel)
  8. Jeremy Dutcher - Motewolonuwok (Secret City) 
  9. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers)
  10. Kaidi Tatham - The Only Way (First Word)

Northwest: 

  1. Polyrhythmics - Filter System (self-released) 
  2. Medejin - The Garden (Icy Cold Records/Den Tapes)
  3. Pure Bathing Culture - Chalice (self-released) 
  4. Gabriel Teodros - From the Ashes of Our Homes (self-released)
  5. Lusine - Long Light (Ghostly International)
  6. Sea Lemon - Stop at Nothing EP (Luminelle Recordings)
  7. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Loma Vista)
  8. Telehealth - “Mindtrap” / “Bitter Melody” (Sub Pop)
  9. UMI - talking to the wind EP (self-released)
  10. Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop)

Adds: 

Kevin Abstract - Blanket (RCA)
Malummí - The Universe is Black (Irascible)
Quantic - Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
Bratty - TR3S (UMG Mexico)
Cuco - Hitchhiker EP (Interscope)
H31R - HeadSpace (Big Dada)
Kurt Vile - Back to Moon Beach EP (Verve)
Madge - BOXJAR (AntiFragile) 
Eddington Again - Naomi9 (!K7)
Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Chaos Magic (Domino)
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Les Jardins Mystique Vol. 1 (Brainfeeder)
PinkPantheress - Heaven knows (Warner)
Sandunes - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Tru Thoughts)