02-06-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2

Add Date: Feb. 6  

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. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA) 
2. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
3. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
4. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
5. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER) 
6. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
7. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
8. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
9. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume(Warp) 
10. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
11. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries)  
12. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino)  
13. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
14. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
15. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
16. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
17. Vagabon – Carpenter (Nonesuch)  
18. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
19. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
20. Hammock – Love in the Void (Hammock Music)  
21. Samia – Honey (Grand Jury)  
22. deary – Fairground (Sonic Cathedral)  
23. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL)  
24. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)  
25. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
26. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
27. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
28. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
29. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
30. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe)  
31. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
32. Tanukichan – Gizmo (Company)  
33. HÆLOS - Last Days (SOLEAH)  
34. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)  
35. Alvvays – Blue Rev (Celsius Girls/Polyvinyl)  
36. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
37. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
38. Smokey Brights – Broken Too EP (Freakout)  
39. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released) 
40. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
41. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
42. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
43. Strawberry Fuzz – Strongs Dr. (CandyShop Recordings) 
44. Contour – Onwards! (Touching Bass)  
45. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City) 
46. Naomi Sharon – Another Life (OVO Sound)  
47. King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)  
48. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
49. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista) 
50. Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City)  
51. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
52. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic)  
53. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
54. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek) 
55. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
57. Fucked Up – One Day (Merge)  
58. Biig Piig – Bubblegum EP (Columbia)  
59. Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings/International Anthem/Nonesuch)  
60. John Cale – Mercy (Domino)  
61. Velvet Negroni – Bulli (4AD)  
62. Iggy Pop – Every Loser (Gold Tooth/Atlantic)  
63. Daníel Hjálmtýsson - Labyrinthia (Reykjavik)  
56. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
64. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
65. Tomten – Artichoke (Plume)  
66. Death Valley Girls – Island in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
67. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
68. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground)  
69. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE)  
70. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
71. Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)  
72. Geese – Cowboy Nudes (Partisan)  
73. Bass Drum of Death – Say I Won’t (Fat Possum)  
74. Sam Himself – Never Let Me Go (Taxi Gauche/Sony)  
75. Billy Nomates – CACTI (Invada)  
76. Shana Cleveland – Manzanita (Hardly Art)  
77. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
78. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
79. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
80. Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)  
81. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
82. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)  
83. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)  
84. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade)  
85. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
86. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
87. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
88. Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)  
89. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)  
90. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)         

Americana: 

1. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 
2. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
3. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
4. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella)  
5. Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers) 
6. Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways) 
7. Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard (Legacy) 
8. Dougie Poole – Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat) 
9. Rachel Baiman – Common Nation of Sorrow (Signature Sounds) 
10. Plains – I Walked With You a Ways (ANTI-)

Global: 

1. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia) - 6 (single)  
2. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
3. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
4. (Soundtrack) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Def Jam)  
5. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
6. Jackie Mendoza – Galaxia de Emociones (ZZK) 
7. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe) 
8. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte)  
9. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans)  
10. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 

Hip Hop: 

1. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)  
2. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note)  
3. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) 
4. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80) 
5. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released) 
6. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
7. BLK ODYSSY & BNXN – Law Low (EMPIRE) 
8. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Def Jam)  
9. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)  
10. Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)

RPM/Electronic: 

1. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
2. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
3. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
4. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe) 
5. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)  
6. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
7. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic) 
8. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
9. TSHA – Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)  
10. Special Interest – Endure (Rough Trade) 

R&B/Blues: 

1. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
2. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
3. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
4. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
5. Contour – Onwards! (Touching Bass)  
6. Naomi Sharon – Another Life (OVO Sound) 
7. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals) 
8. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life)  
9. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
10. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw) 

Jazz: 

1. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan) 
2. Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara (Brownswood Recordings/International Anthem/Nonesuch)  
3. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
4. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
5. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz) 
6. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony) 
7. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
8. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-)  
9. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)  
10. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released) 

Northwest: 

1. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music) 
2. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
3. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
4. Smokey Brights – Broken Too EP (Freakout)  
5. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released) 
6. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes) 
7. Tomten – Artichoke (Plume) 
8. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  
9. Noah Coinflip – God is Love (self-released)  
10. Livt – Pink and Orange EP (Day One Ent.)  

Adds: 

Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) 
Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)  
Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG) 
The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)  
The Men – New York City (Fuzz Club) 
The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries) 
Daníel Hjálmtýsson - Labyrinthia (Reykjavik) 
James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 
Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West) 
Jonah Yano – portrait of a dog (Innovative Leisure)  
The WAEVE – The WAEVE (Transgressive) 
Robert Forster – The Candle and the Flame (Tapete) 
Alexis Evans – Yours Truly (Record Kicks) 
The Rodians – Melt EP (self-released)