02-13-2023

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb. 3-9

Add Date: Feb. 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. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) 
2. Lil Yachty – Let's Start Here. (Quality Control/Motown/UMG)  
3. SZA – SOS (Top Dawg/RCA)  
4. Oddisee – To What End (Outer Note) 
5. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
6. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Warp) 
7. M83 – Fantasy (Mute)  
8. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island) 
9. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
10. Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf)  
11. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals) 
12. Kelela – Raven (Warp)  
13. boygenius – The Record (Interscope)  
14. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
15. Biig Piig – Bubblegum EP (Columbia) 
16. Adwaith – Mato Bato (Libertino)  
17. Unknown Mortal Orchetra – V (Jagjaguwar)  
18. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
19. The Murder Capital – Gigi's Recovery (Human Season)  
20. Algiers – Shook (Matador)  
21. Frankie Rose – Love as Projection (Slumberland)  
22. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
23. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)  
24. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
25. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)  
26. The Smile – The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) (XL) 
27. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador)  
28. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)  
29. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
30. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD)  
31. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)  
32. Strawberry Fuzz – Strongs Dr. (CandyShop Recordings)  
33. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released)  
34. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
35. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (Parlophone)  
36. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
37. Shana Cleveland – Manzanita (Hardly Art)  
38. Sault – 11 (Forever Living Originals)  
39. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic)  
40. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)  
41. U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess (4AD)  
42. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)  
43. Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)  
44. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan)  
45. Hibou – Arc EP (self-released)  
46. The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries)  
47. Samia – Honey (Grand Jury)  
48. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe)  
49. Hammock – Love in the Void (Hammock Music)  
50. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
51. Cable Ties – Perfect Client (Merge)  
52. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions) 
53. Heartworms – A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground) 
54. Liv.e - Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life) 
55. HÆLOS - Last Days (SOLEAH) 
56. deary – Fairground (Sonic Cathedral)  
57. The WAEVE – The WAEVE (Transgressive)  
58. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
59. The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic (Easy Eye Sound)  
60. The Winston Brothers – Drift (Colemine)  
61. Sampa the Great – As Above So Below (Loma Vista)  
62. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)  
63. Shalom – Sublimation (Saddle Creek) 
64. Vagabon – Carpenter (Nonesuch)  
65. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista)  
66. The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)  
67. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Matador)  
68. Contour – Onwards! (Touching Bass)  
69. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
70. Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)  
71. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)  
72. Tomten – Artichoke (Plume)  
73. Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (Rough Trade)  
74. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (Glassnote)  
75. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG) 
76. Jake Shears – Last Man Dancing (Mute)  
77. Ducks Ltd. - Invitation (Carpark)   
78. Overmono – Good Lies (XL)  
79. Flyying Colours – You Never Know (Poison City)  
80. Galactic – Ready For Me (Tchoup-Zilla)  
81. Alex Lahey – The Answer is Always Yes (Liberation)  
82. Nakhane – Bastard Jargon (BMG)  
83. Death Valley Girls – Island in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)  
84. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
85. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody (True Panther)  
86. Tanukichan – Gizmo (Company)  
87. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
88. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe)  
89. Ladytron – Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)  
90. NO ZU – Heat Beat EP (Chapter Music)       

Americana: 

1. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (New West)  
2. Margo Price – Strays (Loma Vista) 
3. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)  
4. Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)  
5. Iris DeMent – Workin' on a World (Flariella)  
6. Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers) 
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. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)  
2. ROSALÍA - LLYLM (Columbia)  
3. Alsarah – Farasha (Alsarah Productions)  
4. Seun Kuti & Black Thought – African Dreams EP (SKE80)  
5. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Dost 2 (Les Disques Bongo Joe)  
6. Orchestra Gold – Medicine (self-released)  
7. SFDK & Lia Kali – El Blues de Condenado (Altafonte)  
8. Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs)  
9. Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (Dead Oceans) 
10. Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel Recordings) 

Hip Hop: 

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

RPM/Electronic: 

1. M83 – Fantasy (Mute) 
2. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP (HIJINXX/Island) 
3. Kelela – Raven (Warp) 
4. Yaeji – With a Hammer (XL)  
5. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin) 
6. Bonobo & Jacques Greene – Fold (OUTLIER)  
7. Honey Dijon – Black Girl Magic (Classic) 
8. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) 
9. Nosaj Thing - Continua (LuckyMe) 
10. Overmono – Good Lies (XL) 

R&B/Blues: 

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

Jazz: 

1. Alfa Mist – Variables (ANTI-)  
2. Ezra Collective – Lady (Partisan) 
3. Terrace Martin – Chucks (Sounds of Crenshaw/BMG)  
4. Theo Croker – By the Way EP (Star People Nation/Masterworks/Sony)  
5. Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
6. London Brew – London Brew (Downtown/Concord Jazz) 
7. Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID016 (Jazz Is Dead)  
8. James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I (ANTI-) 
9. Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)  
10. Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant to Be (Partisan)

Northwest: 

1. Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)  
2. Taylar Elizza Beth & WD4D – Undercover Lovergirl (self-released)  
3. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)  
4. The Black Tones – Blue Matrimony (self-released) 
5. Tourist Activities – Wrong Side (Den Tapes)  
6. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)  
7. Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) 
8. Tomten – Artichoke (Plume) 
9. Smokey Brights – Broken Too EP (Freakout)  
10. Enumclaw – Save the Baby (Luminelle)  

Adds: 

Kelela – Raven (Warp) 
Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador) 
Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek) 
M83 – Fantasy Chapter 1 EP (Mute) 
Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Run For Cover) 
Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)  
CIVIC – Taken By Force (ATO) 
Kassa Overall – Shades 3 (self-released)  
Acid Arab – Trois (Crammed Discs) 
The Golden Dregs – On Grace & Dignity (4AD) 
Andy Shauf – Norm (ANTI-) 
Tennis – Pollen (Mutually Detrimental) 
Maps – Counter Melodies (Mute)  
Amber Arcades – Barefoot on Diamond Road (Fire) 
Django Django – Off Planet Part 1 EP (Because Music)