01-23-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Jan. 13-19

Add Date: Jan. 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. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals) 
2. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
3. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
4. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO  
5. Vagabon – Carpenter (Nonesuch)  
6. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin) 
7. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
8. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
9. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland) 
10. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
11. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) 
12. Parannoul – We Shine at Night (POCLANOS) 
13. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
14. Temples – Exotico (ATO)  
15. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic)  
16. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
17. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals) 
18. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
19. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
20. Contour – Onwards! (Touching Bass)  
21. Aaron Frazer – Live From Easy Eye Sound EP (Dead Oceans)  
22. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE)  
23. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
24. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
25. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
26. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine) 
27. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)  
28. Petite Noir – Simple Things (Roya)  
29. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop) 
30. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
31. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador) 
32. Iggy Pop – Every Loser (Gold Tooth/Atlantic)  
33. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group) 
34. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe)  
35. Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment (Memphis Industries)  
36. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
37. Death Valley Girls – Island in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
38. Nia Archives – So Tell Me... (Island/HIJINXX) 
39. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
40. ENOLA – Metal Body (Fire Talk)  
41. Decisive Pink – Haffmilch Holiday (Fire)  
42. Hatchie – Nosedive (Secretly Canadian) 
43. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista)  
44. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 
45. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
46. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
47. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
48. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (Glassnote)  
49. Bobby Sanchez – Melancholy Tgirl EP (Harawiq)  
50. Noveliss – Vagabond EP (Clear Soul)  
51. Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph)  
52. Bad Colours – Always With U (Bastard Jazz)  
53. PVA – Blush (Ninja Tune)  
54. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)  
55. Fousheé - softCORE (RCA)  
56. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
57. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
58. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
59. Garrett Saracho, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Garrett Saracho JID015 (Jazz Is Dead)  
60. Civic – Taken By Force (ATO)  
61. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries) 
62. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
63. Shame – Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)  
64. Lust For Youth – Accidental Win (Sacred Bones) 
65. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-zilla) 
66. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)  
67. Gold Panda – The Work (City Slang)  
68. Helens – Somewhere in Nowhere (self-released)  
69. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
70. Goat – Oh Death (Rocket Recordings)  
71. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)  
72. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
73. Big Joanie – Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)  
74. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
75. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
76. The Hold Steady – The Price of Progress (Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers)  
77. Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera (3eme Bureau)  
78. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
79. Gladie – Don't Know What You’re In Until You’re Out (Plum)  
80. Abraxas – Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze)  
81. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
82. MOLLY – Picturesque (Sonic Cathedral)  
83. Ging - We're Here, My Dear (Ging Recordings)  
84. STR4TA – STR4TASFEAR (Brownswood Recordings)  
85. Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9, 2022) (Atlantic)  
86. Wesley Joseph – GLOW (Secretly Canadian) 
87. Nakhane – Bastard Jargon (BMG)  
88. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK)  
89. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
90. Billy Nomates – CACTI (Invada)        

Americana: 

1. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 
2. Caitlin Rose – CAZIMI (Pearl Tower/Missing Piece)  
3. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-)  
4. Cory Branan – When I Go I Ghost (Blue Elan) 
5. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella) 
6. (Various) - Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (New West)  
7. Nikki Lane – Denim & Diamonds (New West)  
8. Courtney Marie Andrews – Loose Future (Fat Possum) 
9. Honey Harper – Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky (ATO) 
10. Trampled by Turtles – Alpenglow (Banjodad/Thirty Tigers)  

Global: 

1. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
3. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 
4. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
5. Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera (3eme Bureau) 
6. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
7. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK)  
8. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
9. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte)  
10. Da Cruz – Baladas da Luta (Boom Jah) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
3. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE) 
4. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)  
5. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
6. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
7. Noveliss – Vagabond EP (Clear Soul)  
8. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
9. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
10. Gabriel Teodros – Open Letter (self-released)  

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
2. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
3. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic) 
4. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
5. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade) 
6. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe) 
7. Nia Archives – So Tell Me... (Island/HIJINXX)  
8. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 
9. Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph) 
10. PVA – Blush (Ninja Tune)  

R&B/Blues: 

1. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
2. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
3. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
4. Contour – Onwards! (Touching Bass)  
5. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
6. Sault – Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals)  
7. Petite Noir – Simple Things (Roya) 
8. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
9. Adi Oasis – Lotus Glow (Unity Group)  
10. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)

Jazz: 

1. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan) 
2. Garrett Saracho, Adriam Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Garrett Saracho JID015 (Jazz Is Dead)  
3. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
4. STR4TA – STR4TASFEAR (Brownswood Recordings)  
5. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
6. Dezron Douglas – Atalaya (International Anthem)  
7. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
8. Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings/International Anthem/Nonesuch)  
9. (Various) - Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)  
10. Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)  

Northwest: 

1. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
2. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
2. Mugs and Pockets – The Adventures of Mugs and Pockets (self-released)  
3. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  
5. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
6. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)  
7. Model Shop – Love Interest (Meritorio)  
8. Gabriel Teodros – Open Letter (self-released)  
9. Cumulus – Something Brighter (Share It Music)  
10. Black Nite Crash – Washed in the Sound with... (Neon Sigh)    

Adds: 

The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season) 
Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
John Cale – Mercy (Domino)  
Velvet Negroni – Bulli (4AD) 
Biig Piig – Bubblegum EP (Columbia)  
Fran – Leaving (Fire Talk) 
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe) 
Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)  
СОЮЗ / SOYUZ - Force of the Wind (Сила ветра) (Mr Bongo)  
Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released) 
NO ZU – Heat Beat EP (Chapter Music) 
Ikonika – Bubble Up EP (Hyperdub) 
The C.I.A. - Surgery Channel (In the Red) 
Klein Zage – Feed the Dog (Rhythm Section International) 
Bobbie Lovesong – On the Wind (Woodsist) 
Wau Wau Collectif - Mariage (Sahel Sounds/sing a song fighter) 
Born at Midnite – Alternity EP (Arbutus)