Charts

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 3 - May 9

Add Date: May 13

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. Ibibio Sound Machine – Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
  3. Hana Vu – Romanticism (Ghostly International)
  4. IDLES – TANGK (Partisan)
  5. Gustaf – Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)
  6. Brimheim – RATKING (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  7. Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice (Matador)
  8. Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement (Young)
  9. SPRINTS – Black Box Sessions (City Slang)
  10. somesurprises – Perseids (Doom Trip)
  11. Brittany Davis – Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  12. Angélica Garcia – Gemelo (Partisan)
  13. Dehd – Poetry (Fat Possum)
  14. Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  15. St. Vincent – All Born Screaming (Virgin)
  16. Liv Rion – WRLD CRY (Desert Oasis)
  17. METZ – Up on Gravity Hill (Sub Pop)
  18. Blushing – Sugarcoat (Kanine)
  19. Glass Beams – Mahal (Ninja Tune)
  20. Gary Clark Jr. – JPEG RAW (Warner)
  21. Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  22. Ghost Piss – Dream Girl (Sockhead)
  23. Cloud Nothings – Final Summer (Pure Noise)
  24. Thunderpussy – West (Trash Casual)
  25. Chicano Batman – Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  26. Nilüfer Yanya – “Like I Say (I runaway)” (Ninja Tune)
  27. Club Lotus – “Stole My Ace” (self-released)
  28. La Luz – News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  29. Khruangbin – A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories Ltd.)
  30. Francis of Delirium – Lighthouse (Dalliance Recordings)
  31. Suki Waterhouse – “My Fun” (Sub Pop)
  32. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – BRSB (Big Crown)
  33. Hiatus Kaiyote – Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  34. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – “Watch This” (MOOR COLOURS)
  35. Jools – “97%” (Hassle)
  36. Yard Act – Where’s My Utopia? (Republic)
  37. Seafood Sam – Standing on Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  38. Hinds – Viva Hinds (Lucky Number Music)
  39. Tierra Whack – WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  40. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  41. Jamie xx – “Baddy on the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon)” (Young) 
  42. Blondshell – “Docket (feat. Bully)” (Partisan)
  43. EMEL – MRA (Little Human)
  44. Girl and Girl – Call A Doctor (Sub Pop)
  45. Four Tet – Three (Text)
  46. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  47. Grace Cummings – Ramona (ATO)
  48. Gossip – Real Power (Columbia)
  49. Lava La Rue – STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  50. Pearl Jam – Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  51. Nubiyan Twist – Find Your Flame (Strut)
  52. kiko hayashi - lost (Dream Catalogue)
  53. Amadou & Mariam – “Mogolu” (Because Music)
  54. Crystal Murray – Sad Lovers and Giants (Because Music)
  55. Erika de Casier – Still (4AD)
  56. Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Trip to the Moon (Karma Chief)
  57. freekind. – “Good News” (Vision Tribe)
  58. Crumb – AMAMA (self-released)
  59. David Byrne – “David Byrne Does Hard Times” (Atlantic)
  60. New Age Healers – The Spin Out (self-released)
  61. Revival Season – Golden Age of Self Snitching (Heavenly)
  62. Sango – “Show (feat. Rochelle Jordan)” (self-released)
  63. Los Bitchos – “La Bomba” (City Slang)
  64. SPRINTS – Letter to Self (City Slang)
  65. Brainstory – Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  66. Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD – Slow Burn EP (Secretly Canadian)
  67. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas (Island)
  68. Empress Of – For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  69. Beyoncé – COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  70. Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  71. Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  72. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
  73. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (self-released)
  74. Corridor – Mimi (Sub Pop)
  75. Another Taste – Another Taste (Space Grapes)
  76. Fabiana Palladino – Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute)
  77. bad tuner – look at me but through me EP (Foreign Family Collective)
  78. girl in red – I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! (Columbia)
  79. Salt Cathedral – Before It’s Gone (Independent/The Orchard)
  80. Céu – Novela (Urban Jungle)
  81. Aaron Frazer – Into the Blue (Dead Oceans)
  82. Bullion – Affection (Ghostly International)
  83. Byland – Heavy For A While (Mother West)
  84. Cults – “Crybaby” (Cults Music / Imperial Distribution)
  85. DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy)
  86. Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me (Capitol)
  87. Ride – Interplay (Wichita Recordings)
  88. SUN ATLAS – RETURN TO THE SPIRIT (Mocambo)
  89. Slum Village – F.U.N.(Ne’Astra Music/Virgin Music Group)
  90. mega cat – mega cat (Share It Music)

Americana: 

  1. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  2. Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
  3. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
  4. Grace Cummings – Ramona (ATO)
  5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  6. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  7. Star Anna – Love and Sex and Fear of Death (self-released)
  8. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  9. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  10. Hovvdy - Hovvdy (Arts & Crafts)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (Partisan Records)
  3. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice (Matador)
  4. Glass Beams – Mahal (Ninja Tune)
  5. Chicano Batman – Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  6. EMEL - MRA (Little Human)
  7. Amadou & Mariam - “Mogolu” (Because Music)
  8. Los Bitchos – “La Bamba” (City Slang)
  9. Empress Of – For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  10. Jembaa Groove – Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves (Agogo)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – “Watch This” (MOOR COLOURS)
  2. Tierra Whack – WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  3. Revival Season - Golden Age of Self Snitching (Heavenly)
  4. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  5. Sango – “Show (feat. Rochelle Jordan)” (self-released)
  6. Slum Village – F.U.N. (Ne’Astra Music/Virgin Music Group)
  7. Mo Kolours – Original Flow (WRWTFWW)
  8. DJ Harrison – Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  9. Yaya Bey – Ten Fold (Big Dada)
  10. Sly5thAve - Liberation (Tru Thoughts)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  3. Four Tet – Three (Text)
  4. EMEL - MRA (Little Human)
  5. Erika de Casier – Still (4AD)
  6. bad tuner – look at me but through me EP (Foreign Family Collective)
  7. Jamie xx - “Baddy on the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon)” (Young)
  8. Crystal Murray – Sad Lovers and Giants (Because Music)
  9. Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (Parlophone)
  10. Bullion - Affection (Ghostly International)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  3. Liv Rion – WRLD CRY (Desert Oasis)
  4. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  5. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  6. Hiatus Kaiyote – Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  7. Erika de Casier – Still (4AD)
  8. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  9. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  10. freekind. – “Good News” (Vision Tribe)

Jazz: 

  1. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  2. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  3. Club Lotus – “Stole My Ace” (self-released)
  4. Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Trip to the Moon (Karma Chief)
  5. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  6. DJ Harrison – Shades of Yesterday (Stones Throw)
  7. Ezra Collective – “Ajala” (Partisan)
  8. Mo Kolours – Origina Flow (WRWTFWW)
  9. SUN ATLAS – RETURN TO THE SPIRIT (Mocambo)
  10. Afrocop – Elegantly Deceitful Simulation (Wax Thematique)

Northwest: 

  1. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  2. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  3. Liv Rion – WRLD CRY (Desert Oasis)
  4. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – “Watch This” (MOOR COLOURS)
  5. Thunderpussy – West (Trash Casual)
  6. La Luz - News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  7. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  8. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  9. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  10. Sango – “Show (feat. Rochelle Jordan)” (self-released)

Adds: 

Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
Amen Dunes - Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
Jess Locke - Real Life (Dot Dash)
Jordan Rakei - The Loop (Decca Records/Verve)
Les Savy Fav - OUI, LSF (Frenchkiss Records)
Loren Kramar - Glovemaker (Secretly Canadian)
Shannon & The Clams - The Moon Is In the Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
Slum Village - F.U.N. (Ne’Astra Music / Virgin Music Group)
Lunchbox - Pop and Circumstance (Slumberland)
mary in the junkyard - this old house EP (AMF Records)
Pokey LaFarge - Rhumba Country (New West)
Potatohead People - Eat Your Heart Out (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
youbet - Way To Be (Hardly Art)
IS U IS U - Melter EP (Mad Decent)
No Windows - Point Nemo EP (Fat Possum)