3-3-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb 21 - Feb 27

Add Date: Mar. 3

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. Fontaines D.C. - “It’s Amazing To Be Young” (XL Recordings)
  2. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
  4. Wrong Way Up - Totally Right (Soundway)
  5. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
  6. SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones)
  7. Close Counters - LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY (HOLY SOUND)
  8. Heartworms - Glutton For Punishment (Speedy Wunderground)
  9. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
  10. Kendrick Lamar - GNX (pgLang/Interscope)
  11. Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (Partisan Records)
  12. Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On (Matador)
  13. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA (Columbia)
  14. Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum)
  15. Cymande - Renascence (BMG)
  16. MIKE - Showbiz! (10k)
  17. Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Rimas Entertainment)
  18. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  19. Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
  20. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  21. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
  22. Goat & MC Yallah - “Nimerudi” (Rocket Recordings)
  23. L.A. Witch - DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze)
  24. fish narc - frog song (K)
  25. Bartees Strange - Horror (4AD)
  26. Adwaith - Solas (Libertino)
  27. Freckle - Freckle (God?)
  28. Marie Davidson - City of Clowns (DEEWEE)
  29. Baths - Gut (Basement’s Basement)
  30. Moses Yoofee Trio - MYT (LEITER)
  31. Kelela - In The Blue Light (Warp)
  32. Obongjayar - “Not In Surrender” (September Recordings)
  33. Cumulus - We’ve Got It All (Share It Music)
  34. Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music/BMG Records)
  35. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  36. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
  37. Q Lazzarus - The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) (Sacred Bones)
  38. Saya Gray - SAYA (Dirty Hit)
  39. Biig Piig - 11:11 (Sony Music Entertainment UK)
  40. Maribou State - Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
  41. Ela Minus - DÍA (Domino)
  42. Various Artists - TRAИƧA (Red Hot Org)
  43. Risley - Umbra Penumbra (self-released)
  44. Various Artists - Hosono House Revisited (Stones Throw)
  45. Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Ebo Taylor JID 022 (Jazz Is Dead)
  46. Dina Summer - Girls Gang (Iptamenos Discos)
  47. mega cat - Ultramegacat (Share It Music)
  48. SORDA POP - SORDA POP (self-released)
  49. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
  50. 070 Shake - Petrichor (Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam)
  51. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  52. DARKSIDE - Nothing (Matador)
  53. Gordi - Like Plasticine (Virgin/Mushroom Music)
  54. Jamie xx - In Waves (Deluxe) (Young)
  55. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl)
  56. Ora the Molecule - Dance Therapy (Mute)
  57. Rocket - “Take Your Aim” (Transgressive Records/Canvasback)
  58. SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen (Domino)
  59. Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie (Merge Records)
  60. Doves - Constellations For The Lonely (EMI North)
  61. Greentea Peng - TELL DEM IT’S SUNNY (AWAL Recordings)
  62. Hamilton Leithauser - Knockin’ Heart [This Side of the Island, Glassnote
  63. Lord Huron - “Who Laughs Last” (feat. Kristen Stewart) (Mercury Records)
  64. Morgan Nagler - “Cradle The Pain” (Little Operations Records)
  65. Now Always Fades - “Close To Greatness” (Northern Underground)
  66. Yukimi - For You (Ninja Tune)
  67. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (Polyrhythmics)
  68. THEM - “Vintage Jeans” (VERSION III)
  69. Ana Tijoux & Hordatoj - “Muévelo” (Victoria Produccione)
  70. Katie McBride - “Apathy” (Blue Water)
  71. Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear (Domino)
  72. Brooke Combe - Dancing At The Edge Of The World (Modern Sky UK)
  73. Mereba - The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian)
  74. Tony Allen & La BOA - LA BOA MEETS TONY ALLEN (Comet/Planet Woo)
  75. Benjamin Booker - LOWER (Fire Next Time Records/Thirty Tigers)
  76. Gabriel Teodros - GT REMIXES (self-released)
  77. cutouts - Snakeskin (self-released)
  78. bambinodj - Silent Dispatch (OST)
  79. Yola - My Way EP (S-Curve)
  80. Weep Wave - Speck (CorpoRAT)
  81. fat jon - Obscurity Continuum (Sichtexot)
  82. Amber Mark - Loosies EP (PMR Records/Interscope)
  83. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  84. Bria Salmena - Big Dog (Sub Pop)
  85. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (Domino)
  86. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  87. Blackwater Holylight - If You Only Knew EP (Suicide Squeeze)
  88. LAKE - Bucolic Gone (Don Giovanni)
  89. The Maya Experience - “My House” (self-released)
  90. True Loves - “Dopus No. 1” (feat. Nigel Hall) (self-released)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Morgan Nagler - “Cradle The Pain” (Little Operations Records)
  2. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles (June Tunes Music/Concord)
  4. LAKE - Bucolic Gone (Don Giovanni)
  5. Hurray For The Riff Raff - “Pyramid Scheme” (Nonesuch)
  6. Dead Gowns - It's Summer, I Love You, and I'm Surrounded By Snow (Mtn. Laurel Recording Co.)
  7. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Purple Bird (No Quarter/Domino)
  8. The Weather Station - Humanhood (Fat Possum)
  9. Joseph Giant - A Night in the Sun (Lithic)
  10. Califone - The Villagers Companion (Jealous Butcher)

Global: 

  1. Wrong Way Up - Totally Right (Soundway)
  2. Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Rimas Entertainment)
  3. Goat & MC Yallah - “Nimerudi” (Rocket Recordings)
  4. Various Artists - Hosono House Revisited (Stones Throw)
  5. Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Ebo Taylor JID 022 (Jazz Is Dead)
  6. mega cat - Ultramegacat (Share It Music)
  7. Ana Tijoux & Hordatoj - “Muévelo” (Victoria Produccione)
  8. Tony Allen & La BOA - LA BOA MEETS TONY ALLEN (Comet/Planet Woo)
  9. Sababa 5 & Sophia Solomon - Shehzadi - शहज़ादी / Ranjha - रांझा (Batov)
  10. Anthony Joseph - Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Kendrick Lamar - GNX (pgLang/Interscope)
  2. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA (Columbia)
  3. MIKE - Showbiz! (10k)
  4. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  5. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
  6. Moses Yoofee Trio - MYT (LEITER)
  7. mega cat - Ultramegacat (Share It Music)
  8. Ana Tijoux & Hordatoj - “Muévelo” (Victoria Produccione)
  9. Tony Allen & La BOA - LA BOA MEETS TONY ALLEN (Comet/Planet Woo)
  10. Gabriel Teodros - GT REMIXES (self-released)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Wrong Way Up - Totally Right (Soundway)
  2. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
  3. Close Counters - LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY (HOLY SOUND)
  4. Marie Davidson - City of Clowns (DEEWEE)
  5. Baths - Gut (Basement’s Basement)
  6. Moses Yoofee Trio - MYT (LEITER)
  7. Biig Piig - 11:11 (Sony Music Entertainment UK)
  8. Maribou State - Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
  9. Ela Minus - DÍA (Domino)
  10. Dina Summer - Girls Gang (Iptamenos Discos)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Wrong Way Up - Totally Right (Soundway)
  2. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
  3. Close Counters - LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY (HOLY SOUND)
  4. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA (Columbia)
  5. Cymande - Renascence (BMG)
  6. Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Rimas Entertainment)
  7. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  8. Little Simz - Lotus (AWAL Recordings Ltd.)
  9. Moses Yoofee Trio - MYT (LEITER)
  10. Kelela - In The Blue Light (Warp)

Jazz: 

  1. Close Counters - LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY (HOLY SOUND)
  2. Cymande - Renascence (BMG)
  3. Butcher Brown - Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
  4. Moses Yoofee Trio - MYT (LEITER)
  5. Kelela - In The Blue Light (Warp)
  6. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings/Parlophone Records)
  7. Various Artists - Hosono House Revisited (Stones Throw)
  8. Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Ebo Taylor JID 022 (Jazz Is Dead)
  9. mega cat - Ultramegacat (Share It Music)
  10. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (Polyrhythmics)

Northwest: 

  1. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
  2. Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum)
  3. fish narc - frog song (K)
  4. Cumulus - We’ve Got It All (Share It Music)
  5. Risley - Umbra Penumbra (self-released)
  6. mega cat - Ultramegacat (Share It Music)
  7. SORDA POP - SORDA POP (self-released)
  8. Suzzallo - The Quiet Year (self-released)
  9. Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie (Merge Records)
  10. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (Polyrhythmics)

Adds: 

Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart (Sub Pop)
Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (Domino)
Caribombo - Barrio Popular (Galletas Calientes)
DARKSIDE - Nothing (Matador)
Doves - Constellations For The Lonely (EMI)
Everything Is Recorded - Temporary (XL Recordings)
Marie Davidson - City of Clowns (DEEWEE)
Miya Folick - Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk)
Nao - Jupiter (RCA)
Shygirl - Club Shy Room 2 (Because)
The Chills - Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
The Men - Buyer Beware (Fuzz Club Records)
Abdomen - Yes, I Don’t Know (FatCat Records)
Andy Bell - pinball wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
bdrmm - Microtonic (Rock Action)
Boof - Night Blooming Cereus (BubbleTease Communications)
Cornelia Murr - Run to the Center (22Twenty)
Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt - lucre (WORLD MUSIC)
Edith Frost - In Space (Drag City)
FEM du lit - STIGMATA (La fem)
Hot 8 Brass Band - Big Tuba (Tru Thoughts)
Michi - Dirty Talk (Stones Throw)
Pure Hex - Five Of Tears (Neon Bloodbath)
serpentwithfeet - GRIP SEQUEL (Secretly Canadian)